I heard a segment on NPR this morning of an interview with a woman who was a former Obama Admin official in some capacity (I think Defense, but am unsure and haven't looked it up yet). But she made a comment that, if true, implies that it when comes to being disingenuous, the Obama Administration is without peer. Her exact words elude me (and I will look this up later as time permits) but her implication was that Obama and his administration are "convinced" that the "only way" to defeat ISIS is to remove al-Assad because "al-Assad is the motivation for ISIS." Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot? ISIS started in Iraq arguably because of our policies. Whether or not you choose to believe the preponderance of evidence that suggests we are largely responsible for the rise of ISIS, their rise in Iraq (and expansion to other regions) clearly had nothing to do with al-Assad. If this terrible misinterpretation is not willfully propaganda and is, in fact, what our "intelligence community" really believes, it is a very sad statement on the state of our foreign policy and "intelligence" capabilities.