How does that logic go? &quot;I don&#x27;t like tyranny so I&#x27;m going to join a group of murderers and rapists who are best known for their beheading videos&quot;.<p>I know nothing about the complex situation in Syria and Iraq but I always guessed that ISIL in Syria was more about Iraqi post-Sunni Awakening fallout after being locked out of governing by al-Maliki. Like if you look at a map of ISIL in Iraq you see the area they have is the area that was hostile to Iraqi Occupation in 2007 and the leader of ISIL is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who was an insurgent from Fallujah. They just took advantage of the problems in Syria and used that as a spring board into Iraq.<p>The reason the fight against ISIL is going so slow in Iraq is the same reason it was such a tough fight in 2007. They&#x27;re fighting the Iraqis who live there, it&#x27;s not a Syrian invasion force.<p>So why would someone from Damascus be joining ISIL over this problem?