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| What Will Replace ISIS? |
| 2016-11-07 |
| [SultanKnish] Before long the same administration that declared the fighting in Iraq over several times will claim victory over ISIS. The timetable for its push against the Islamic State appears to have less do with the victimized Christians and Yazidis who have been prevented from coming here as refugees in favor of Syrian Muslims than with the Clinton presidential campaign. Like Obama’s declarations that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were over, the announcement that ISIS has been defeated will be premature. It is based on a profound misunderstanding and misreading of Islamic terrorism. IMO, it's based on the profound misunderstanding of every single thing in the real world: from basic facts of economics to basic facts of psychology Long before its current string of defeats, ISIS had begun evolving into another Al Qaeda; a multinational alliance of Jihadists scattered around the world. Bombing Mosul isn’t hard, but try bombing Marseille, Brussels or London. There is no doubt that the ability of ISIS to temporarily establish a caliphate allowed it to build a network that could carry out terror attacks from New York to Miami to Nice to Munich. But it would be dangerous to assume that losing Iraq and Syria will stop ISIS. ISIS doesn’t matter. The idea of ISIS does. And the idea of ISIS is Islamic supremacism. ...The bigger error though is to think that we are fighting an organization. We are fighting an idea. That is not to contend, as Obama does, that we can debate it to death. It is not the sort of idea that argues with words, but with bullets, bombs and swords. But neither does it just go away if you seize a city. ...Islam originally spread into a vacuum created by civilizational decline. Civilizational decline is why it is rising once again. An obscure local terror group eventually turned into ISIS by filling a power vacuum. Even as Obama performs another touchdown dance, some other group will be making that same journey. Its mission will be the familiar one of replacing our civilization with its own. Until we come to terms with this civilizational struggle, we will go on fighting endless wars in the sand and coping with endless terror attacks in our own cities because we have failed to recognize the nature of the enemy. We are not fighting an acronym, whether it’s ISIS or ISIL; we are fighting an Islamic State. This is a war to determine whether the future will belong to the West or to Islam. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 g(r)omgoru, nice. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-11-07 16:01 |
| #7 Boskone |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-07 15:14 |
| #6 What Will Replace ISIS? ISEUROPE |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-11-07 14:14 |
| #5 Looks like Hillary will replace ISIS. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-11-07 12:52 |
| #4 Casualties are just numbers to Hillary and friends. Acceptable losses as long as they aren't voters. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-11-07 12:28 |
| #3 a profound misunderstanding and misreading of Islamic terrorism. Totally and completely irrelevant. The Zero and Shrillary world is not predicated on understanding anything other than their own quest for wealth and power. Until YOU understand that you are chasing moonbeams. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-11-07 10:41 |
| #2 Depends if they are truly crushed and the west is seen as the strong horse again. If not, replacement groups will probably just take on one of ISIS's pseudo names. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-11-07 10:33 |
| #1 We can keep our soldiers there and babysit those people for the next thousand years hoping we can somehow drag them into the modern world or we can leave them to stew in their own juices and try to figure it out for themselves. I favor the latter. We don't go there and they don't come here. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-11-07 10:02 |