SEN. RAND PAUL Rand Paul: GOP Isn't Entirely Responsible For Creating ISIS Huffington Post – Sam Levine “Paul linked the rise of ISIS to the policies of President Barack Obama, but stopped short of saying his party was not responsible at all. ‘This was the policy of President Obama, it was the policy of Hillary Clinton and it was also the policy of some in my party who wanted to arm the Islamic rebels,’ he said. ‘And I warned at the time that the great irony is that you arm these people, one day we'll have to go back and fight against these weapons ourselves.’”