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re: Is it possible to beat the terrorists?
Posted on 11/24/15 at 2:13 pm to TheIndulger
Posted on 11/24/15 at 2:13 pm to TheIndulger
Many of ISIS's leaders are Saddam's ex-military officers...
Daily Mail
This core aren't religious zealots...they are pragmatic military men who want territory and loot.
It is their propaganda arm that is convincing others to come to Syria in order to train their brain into suicide attacks (radicalization).
End the attempt at an ISIS caliphate, militarily on the ground, and you will end the allure of Westerners coming to train to kill the West. This may entail carving up the borders of the land differently than what was drawn up after WWI...make a Sunni homeland, a Kurdish homeland and one for Northern Syria (or get rid of Assad).
The problem with my long term solution is that Turkey, Iraq and Syria would all have to give up territory...none of them want to do that.
Daily Mail
This core aren't religious zealots...they are pragmatic military men who want territory and loot.
It is their propaganda arm that is convincing others to come to Syria in order to train their brain into suicide attacks (radicalization).
End the attempt at an ISIS caliphate, militarily on the ground, and you will end the allure of Westerners coming to train to kill the West. This may entail carving up the borders of the land differently than what was drawn up after WWI...make a Sunni homeland, a Kurdish homeland and one for Northern Syria (or get rid of Assad).
The problem with my long term solution is that Turkey, Iraq and Syria would all have to give up territory...none of them want to do that.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 2:20 pm
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Posted on 11/24/15 at 6:19 pm to Flame Salamander
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Many of ISIS's leaders are Saddam's ex-military officers...
Exactly.
This is how they ran through Northern Iraq with little pushback. When the Iraqi army was disbanded, many of Saddam's soldiers, officers, and Baathist sympathizers fled to insurgency and were waiting for a moment to come back. When Isis was rolling through N. Iraq, they were led by military leaders that the people were familiar with.
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End the attempt at an ISIS caliphate, militarily on the ground, and you will end the allure of Westerners coming to train to kill the West.
You're right! Baghdadi is the first person in hundreds of years that meets all the qualifications of being the Caliph according to the Salafis. Ultra Orthodox Sunnis (Salafis) don't believe any of the Ottoman caliphs were legit because none of them were from the Quaraysh tribe, Which Baghdadi is Quarayshi.
Islam Successor - Caliph
Its also believed by the Salafis that being a muslim in a time without a caliph is not practicing islam to the fullest, hence why they are going to Isis.
Isis is an apocalyptic cult. They want the Western world to come fight them because of their interpretation of Armageddon in the Koran, which involves a Battle in Dabiq and ultimately the return of Jesus.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 6:21 pm
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