As bad as the Islamic State (ISIS) has been for the war-ravaged Middle East, the United States needs to recognize that murderous group’s de-facto creator and enabler — Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad — as an even bigger and more monstrous adversary, says a former State Department official.

“For every one person ISIS has driven out of their town, Bashar al-Assad has driven out ten,” Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., a former assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV Thursday.

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