Awol,
ISIS is clearly real and clearly a real threat.
But the route to 'ISIS' has in part been constructed by 'our' politicians. From dabbling in Afghanistan when the Taliban were the greatest threat to our culture, this was morphed in to general middle east terror and we were told that Saddam and his imaginary weapons were a real threat to our families. Al Qaeda were then a real danger to all of us, capable of bombing tube stations and buses. If we just bomb one more place we can kill off AQ. Then we have another go at Iraq, and it turns to shit, but not to worry, we just need to topple Libya and everything will be ok. But then it turns out what we really need to do is topple Assad, but then it turns out Egypt needs a nudge. But then after the nudge we didn't like the direction it fell, so strangely have decided to do nothing about a military coup and dictatorship there? I've mashed up the time line and simplified it, but you'll get the point.
We have been lead here either by lies or incompetence. Those that have lied or are incompetent have benefitted hugely from this.
To believe what they say again, without question, to go to war on their advice again, without question, would surely be idiotic?
Or, in the language we are now adopting in this thread, murderously mentally retarded.