Its the biggest issue since the gulfwar, and getting worse by the day
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Iraq. Is it better now?? (AKA ISIS/ISIL/IS/name-of-the-week-here) (15 Viewers)
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This is very true.
Most Sunni Iraqi's I know, despite hating ISIS, feel that they are pushed to a corner and as a result prefer them to the Maliki regime. I personally don't think that's right, though I'm not one to speak, because during the Libyan revolution I didn't have a problem with extremists fighting on the side of Libyan rebels. I now regret that very much, and wish we had never accepted them. I fear Sunni Iraqi's and Syrians will go through the same experience.
Most Sunni Iraqi's I know, despite hating ISIS, feel that they are pushed to a corner and as a result prefer them to the Maliki regime. I personally don't think that's right, though I'm not one to speak, because during the Libyan revolution I didn't have a problem with extremists fighting on the side of Libyan rebels. I now regret that very much, and wish we had never accepted them. I fear Sunni Iraqi's and Syrians will go through the same experience.
Could you imagine ISIS running countries like Iraq and Syria, or even better, Iran? I'm sure they would be stable, fun-loving nations with Richard Simmons and rainbows on the front of their edifices.
Someone said it best here. They look at the glory period of Islam, and are expressing everything that held it back, back then
the question that should be asked in the case of ISIS is why they are so 'strong'? why they of all groups got the army of toyota trucks and weapons?? not to mention the intel, logistics network and other modern army tools that no rebel group can even dream of having? this is WAY bigger than kharijite style rebellion, this is the 'great game' all over again my friend.
Al Qaida/taliban all over again, The US/CIA needed them vs the Soviets so they give them all they needed. Even if ISIS (or groups it later absorbed) got financial support from West/Saudis in general in Syria, they got most of the practical training and aid in Syria to fight Assad from US.
Difference this time is they didn't need to wait a decade like they did in the 80s for it to backfire on them. Never smart to support extremists, whether it's the murderous shias in Iraq that took their "revenge" on sunnis, or batshit crazy ones like ISIS just because the Assads were getting too cozy with Iran etc.
Difference this time is they didn't need to wait a decade like they did in the 80s for it to backfire on them. Never smart to support extremists, whether it's the murderous shias in Iraq that took their "revenge" on sunnis, or batshit crazy ones like ISIS just because the Assads were getting too cozy with Iran etc.
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the obvious part is you always want to fund the group that is least politically viable since all you want them to do is fight your proxy war in syria like you mentioned above. But isis is also by definition and name extending to iraq with their main reason to be, and they dont hide it either is the redrawing of iraqi borders. isis is there to balkanize iraq imo
The story of what made Islam great (and still is) versus those who have conveniently ignored or twisted its teachings is one of the great modern tragedies. In some ways, I can't help but feel that the whole religious construct has been taken advantage of by unscrupulous people who have been able to operate unchecked with Islam's lack of any central authority.
Not that central authority is always a good thing -- every religion has its abusers. But this is how Islam seems to get its abuse.
Not that central authority is always a good thing -- every religion has its abusers. But this is how Islam seems to get its abuse.