In the interim, Palin noted, a civil war in the nation had left 200,000 dead and millions more homeless. It was Obama's weak foreign policy that helped foster the formation and proliferation of strong terrorist cells in the region, she asserted. "The rise of the animalistic terror group, ISIS, is the result of Obama's lead-from-behind foreign policy," she wrote. "He had broadcast his war strategy for all the enemy to see in Iraq, so the enemy could wait us out and strike as soon as