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Comrade Grumpy

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26. I'm afraid it may not be as clear cut as you suggest.

Reply to stevenleser (Reply #14)

Sun Aug 16, 2015, 01:37 AM

Aug 2015

ISIS seems to be hooked up with former Baathist military elements in Iraq, and has the support, or at least the acquiescence, of some of the Sunni tribes.

I don't know much about its support in Syria.

I know it has thousands of foreign fighters in its ranks, but it certainly has thousands of locals as well.

And the people in major cities it controls, like Mosul or Raqqa or Ramadi, haven't exactly risen up to drive them off. How much is fear and how much is sympathy?

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We might see some redrawing of borders. A shrunken Shia Iraq, an enlarged Kurdish proto-state in their parts of Syria and Iraq, a Sunni state in Anbar and eastern Syria, a shrunken Alawite rump state in Syria.

Maybe then those Syriac-Iraqi Sunnis can figure out what to do with ISIS.

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What Should Be Done About ISIS? And Who Should Do It? [View all] Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 OP

1. Build a time machine, 2. Go back 15 years. onehandle Aug 2015 #1

That may be the most workable solution. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 #2

The backwards time machine still hasn't arrived yet. FrodosPet Aug 2015 #8

If we ignore the FACT that this conflict is 1000s of years old Alittleliberal Aug 2015 #28

Jesus is that the Munsters? lostnfound Aug 2015 #30

Follow the money and cut it off. KSA, UAE and Qatar leveymg Aug 2015 #3

There's a lot of blood on the hands of the Saudis and the Gulf States. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 #25

Containment and attrition? moondust Aug 2015 #4

Formally end the "War on Terror". delrem Aug 2015 #5

There are problems with all your solutions... davidn3600 Aug 2015 #6

"Doing nothing..eventually committing terrorist acts on us" WDIM Aug 2015 #10

You're comparing Saddam Hussein to ISIS? A lie to a group that has promised to attack us? Really? stevenleser Aug 2015 #12

No I was comparing the posters rationale for war with Bush's rati WDIM Aug 2015 #17

You are confusing Iraq and Afghanistan davidn3600 Aug 2015 #16

I know Saudi nationals attacked us on 9-11-01 WDIM Aug 2015 #18

The Taliban was harboring Al-Queda davidn3600 Aug 2015 #19

Thats the official story. WDIM Aug 2015 #22

Cut off the funding and supply. WDIM Aug 2015 #7

No one should take that suggestions seriously until you research it and explain how. For instance... stevenleser Aug 2015 #13

There is no way. WDIM Aug 2015 #21

develop renewable energy and turn our backs on the entire oil despotic regions saturnsring Aug 2015 #9

There is a battle for political control cheapdate Aug 2015 #11

Is ISIS an occupier or is this a civil war? I think they are occupiers. stevenleser Aug 2015 #14

I'm afraid it may not be as clear cut as you suggest. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 #26

The arguments for intervention in the case of a civil war, cheapdate Aug 2015 #27

This might be more of a fantasy but here goes.... chowder66 Aug 2015 #15

continue with the coalition ericson00 Aug 2015 #20

Destroy their oil fields. former9thward Aug 2015 #23

We broke it, we bought it Facility Inspector Aug 2015 #24

(3) and (4) are really the same. Igel Aug 2015 #29

The London Review of Books has an interesting piece on British jihadis. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 #32

Hormone bombs? Something in the water supply? lostnfound Aug 2015 #31

You forgot who actually has the capability to do something Lurks Often Aug 2015 #33