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Again, read this book. Things are not as black as white as it seems.
It is true that ISIS still gaining ground. But they would never control entire Iraq and Syria for that case. Iran, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey will jump into Iraq once it happens. The bottom line is: we should not scared about the possibility of ISIS became a legitimate nation. Instead, we should worry about what ISIS will do before it vanquished.
Not sure if you remember but I had asked about books on ISIS 2 months ago and you gave some good responses.
What do you think about this book?
> Also, while we're talking about foreign affairs, how do you feel about the specific targeting of civilian women and children? Trump has expressly advocated for it. How do you not find that repugnant? How do you feel about torture--not "advanced interrogation techniques"--actual torture? >
You're going to talk about a bullshit Fox News narrative and then go digging in the gutters for that garbage. When questioned about this Trump sited the San Bernardino terrorists family members that were complicit in the attack they carried out. Some of those family members have since been arrested by the current administration (Obama). He was also probably trying to ensure situations wouldn't arise where the surviving family members would profit from these attacks. See the article below for the action that is now being taken by the current administration (Not Trump). This all seems reasonable to me.
And are you seriously that fucking disturbed about water boarding? Is that what you're calling actual torture? These people just beheaded a priest in a church today. We should go a lot further than we have been. Our rules of engagement are a joke.
And you're right. Hillary Clinton is not solely to blame for the rise of ISIS. President Obama can also take some of the credit for trying to solve this issue through air strikes and arming rebels alone. It's been documented in several sources that weapons turned over to moderate rebels inevitably end up in the hands of ISIS. All this because of their obsession with ousting Assad. This should all be common knowledge by now from the daily reports published in the mainstream media, but here's a book that's spells it out easy enough for you to understand if you're seriously that far behind.
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Islamic-State-Sunni-Revolution/dp/1784780405
I also love that you seem to have no problem with all the overwhelming evidence of a rigged primary. Bernie was fundraising for Hillary all along. No big deal, right? Because ZOMG TRUMP!
Put very very simply...
ISIS, aka ISIL, aka IS (Islamic State), aka Daesh, is a group that currently rules territory in portions of Iraq and Syria. Their aim is to create a state ruled by an extremely strict interpretation of Sunni Islam, and they believe themselves to be fulfilling religious prophecy, one of the groups discussed in Islamic eschatology; their official magazine is named Dabiq after the down of Dabiq, where a Sunni Hadith declares that during the apocalypse "an army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina" to repel the armies of Rome. THey believe they are that army and anticipate an apocalyptic battle.
They are notorious for the severity of their laws (women must remain indoors when not with husbands or fathers, thieves suffer amptuations, public music results in beatings) and the brutality with which they enforce them, along with their terrorist tactics against their enemies (meaning: directly targeting civilians to frighten and intimidate people into surrendering). Their activities extend to things considered gross human rights violations by everyone but them -- using child soldiers, mass rape, slavery, mass executions.
If you are interested in reading further, I would recommend the essay What ISIS Really Wants by Graeme Wood and the book The Rise of Islamic State by Patrick Cockburn.
I read The Rise of Islamic State - ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution, by Patrick Cockburn, around 2 months ago. Was kind of disappointed with it.
Tiny sized book with a large font and only 160 pages. In real size terms think it would only be 70-80 pages in a normal book format. Secondly a lot of the material in the books is lifted from his reporting the last 2 years which I had read already.
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