Military So ISIS & the Middle East

That situation has been much reported for the past 20 years, you know. Obama didn't make it up, he stated a fact. I gave a logical response, explaining my reasoning. Then you come back with a political diatribe.

Learn to read and don't waste my time.

 

ISIS hasn't even establish a working caliphate in the barren deserts of eastern Syria. The surrounding countries are against them rather than lining up for them. Their rhetoric, based on mythological ideology, is a far cry from what they can actually achieve. Terrorism has never in history gained their advocates what they wanted. ISIS' claim to fame was that they overran territory guarded by the Syrian and Iraqi armies in military fashion. American airpower halted that episode, so now they have returned to guerrilla war, terrorism, and war crimes. None of the countries that surround them intend to let them expand. The atrocities have turned all potential allies against them. Individual Jihadists from all over have flocked to Syria where they can be targeted and can't cause trouble at home. They won't cause an apocalyptic event, nor establish a worldwide caliphate. They cannot succeed in their endeavor. Their population is oppressed. They will fall back onto more terror in an attempt to get the Great Satan to come fight them on their terms so that they can be martyred.

What is the answer? We let them implode at the lowest cost in money and American lives that is possible. Time is not on their side. They do not threaten the existence of the United States. Russia still does. ISIS is a threat to our middle eastern allies. So we strangle their economy and let them get more desperate and weaker. We strengthen the capabilities of the Kurds and the Iraqis to resist them. We encourage the well-equipped Saudi, Egyptian, and Jordanian military to actually use some of that America military hardware to defend their own interests because we won't solve any of their problems unless their are committed to fight themselves. We let ISIS atrocities cause even conservative Egyptians, Saudis, and Jordanians to go to war against them. Let that sink in a minute. Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, the triumvirate that fought three wars against Israel, are now fighting ISIS instead. So is the entire Arab League. So is Hezbollah. So is Iran. ISIS has replaced Israel as the most-hated figure in the Muslim world.

In time they will collapse from within because they expect Allah to support them and he ain't coming.