Some interesting food for thought.
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leadership of ISIS is comprised of former Iraqi military and intelligence officers. Saddam Hussein was their former boss.
These aren't religious crazies. Quite the opposite, actually, they are cold, calculating, and absolutely ruthless.
They
recruit religious crazies to do their dirty work (violence to achieve a political end).
What has become ISIS has taken advantage of our exit from Iraq. This has allowed them to flourish unimpeded.
Quote:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debat...islamic-state/
...we cannot forget that Islamic State came to the world stage barely over a year ago, when it took Mosul and subsequently one third of Iraq as well as one third of Syria in a matter of weeks. Some of the terror group’s major advances on the ground took mere hours, advances that Obama later said will take years to roll back.
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There is no sharply defined border that defines ISIS land. Otherwise we (or France) would have simply nuked it. Which makes the job of mopping them up harder.
Quote:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debat...islamic-state/
“We never thought the West would allow a group like ISIS to expand, but now I know that we have been played. We have been extremely stupid,” one anti-Islamic State rebel told me on condition of anonymity to protect his family. He sounded embittered by what he called a shocking and swift victory for the group, and he spoke to me from his car, which he said he had parked just outside an Internet cafe to piggy-back on the Wi-Fi signal without anyone hearing our conversation. He said Islamic State had setup checkpoints everywhere.
“The only thing that makes sense to us is that the world wants to dump all its trash here,” he said, referring to the Islamic State jihadists, whom he said were mainly non-Syrian, but other Arab nationals, Chechens, and Westerners. “And then the West will come and bomb them all. This must be the strategy because nothing else makes any sense.”
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Unless you want to commit genocide, this is going to be very difficult to tackle.
It should be clear to everyone, regardless of political affiliation, that there is a war of values being waged.
This war is fully supported by 20-25% of all muslims who actively believe in violent jihad. The remainder, the so-called moderates, wouldn't mind if the 25% cut your head off.
There is a resurgence in fundamentalist islam which is being pushed by wahabbi scholars. This is attracting young men. The enabling mechanism by which this is being spread is the infinite reach and richness of the internet and social media.
The idea that grinding poverty and injustice as a root cause has been discredited. Remember that the Tsarnaevs were "refugees" who have been extended every possible advantage while living in Boston. The POS that shot up Chattanooga, TN earlier this year was not a disadvantaged youth. You can take the radical out of 3rd world $hitholes, but you can't take the savage out of the radical no matter where you are.
There is something objectively wrong with a religion that promotes the killing and rape of innocents and outright lying.
Islam is an ugly religion with ugly adherents. There is no way around this. F*ck islam.
There is no such thing moderate islam. Just "no islam."
France and even Sweden closed their borders.
It's time we do the same.
This time around, we have animals hiding amongst the wretched refuse that want to blow us up, shoot us and cut our heads off.
Islam doesn't police its own and we can't easily distinguish the crazies from the "moderates."