...you do realise how ISIS came about, right? Quite tied up with the invasion that we participated in.
For this round at least.
Only to the extent that they were buoyed by popular uprising in the Middle East and a power vacuum. Whereas in the past the likes of Saddam would have put down such a threat to his power with matching levels of atrocity.
It's a bit like blaming the allies for the rise of Nazism, by removing the Wilhelm aristocracy (dictatorship) and instilling the Weimar Republic.