re: Pentagon's New Strategy for Defeating ISIS. LONG

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So what are they going to do with the void created when Isis falls? There will just be another group of crazies to take their place.

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I think the hope is, they are being better trained then they were in the past, the Iraqi army. The hope is Abadi is the right man for the job. They are gonna have to first, treat the Sunnis better, and second, keep training the regular army better. Iraq is finally having more and more Sunni tribes fight against ISIS than ever before. Several big cities are Sunni dominated and you need "good" Sunni tribes to keep the void at bay.

Maliki basically treated Sunnis like dirt which caused an uprising, basicall same thing Hussein did to the Shiites. Abadi is actually trying to ease the sectarian tension. Who know whether that will work, hasn't worked the last few thousand years. Basically, keep training and recruiting more soldiers, and cover as much of the country you can, and hope Sunni tribes will help also.