My response to Roth Douthat's editorial "Can the Islamic State Survive" :
If we consider ISIS as a media savvy rebellion in a region of governmental dysfunction then logic might prevail in our current inept analysis, especially this one likening ISIS to the Soviet takeover of Czarist Russia. Syria and Iraq are splitting into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish sectarian regions. Don’t fight this civil war with worse then useless military aid to reconquer towns and cities which are then left desolate and without a community from which to regroup. Just let the divisions happen and support only those political unions that govern and protect their people, for example the Kurds of Kurdistan in Iraq.
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