July 21 comment below, besides filling out my sentiments better drew a high recommend number. Others are catching on.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
ISIS is Coming! ISIS is Coming!
This blog posited on 17 June that ISIS is converting to Daesh, a governing entity for Sunnis more successful than Assad in Syria and Baghdad in Iraq. Today's ISIS Transforming into Functioning State that uses Terror as a Tool confirms it. The current U.S. position of eliminating ISIS is one where we take sides in a civil war rather than provide a pacifying influence in the region.
July 21 comment below, besides filling out my sentiments better drew a high recommend number. Others are catching on.
July 21 comment below, besides filling out my sentiments better drew a high recommend number. Others are catching on.
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This revolutionary phase - and world opposition to it - is fuelling recruitment and fervour. All revolutions are bloody and chaotic. Al Qaeda recruited on the basis of Islam being under attack, ISIS on "Islam is on the attack."
The question the West needs to ask is, if not ISIS, who? Who will promise more sustainable stability in the future? How could ISIS ever be defeated? Already it's a minuscule army - less than 100,000 - controlling an area with a population of almost 9 million. The regions sunnis would prefer ISIS to the Iranian based militias who fight in the name of Iraq these days (a gift of the Blair-Bush-Cheney junta).
An outrageous strategic option may be the only thing that will work in the absence of a military solution, namely, call ISIS's bluff and recognise it as a state. Allow them to build a Caliphate (after all, Jews have a Jewish state in the region) and watch while the pragmatists and ideologues slug it out for control. In the end all revolutionary movements end with the pragmatists killing the ideologues. Possible? Not with the fundamentalist thinking that permeates the West these days.