How would YOU handle the ISIS terrorist organization if you were in the Oval Office?

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All you have to do is google up the Ottoman empire circa 1900 or so.

here's one from 1855:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/1855_Colton_Map_of_Turkey,_Iraq,_and_Syria_-_Geographicus_-_TurkeyIraq-colton-1855.jpg

The gap in the south is the Arabian Desert region that was controlled by the Shammar tribe, south of them is Nejd, then the Rhub al Khali, or "empty quarter." All are nominally ottoman, though it exerted next to no direct control. Also lacking on the map are the two directly-controlled ottoman provinces on the Peninsula; Hejaz on hte west boast, and al hasa on the East.

Most of the little emirates - Qatar, Yemen, Oman, the princedoms that would form the UAE - these were independent of ottoman rule at the time, though were pretty much under british control as a sort of naval base pipeline between British India and egypt.

You cna learn more here: http://www.academia.edu/5269920/Mapping_and_Remapping_the_Arab_World-Part_2_Remapping