ChrisL
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I really wouldn't put anything past ISIS. I think that certain extremist groups hate the idea that they have to deal with the rest of the modern world, and would just like isolate themselves. They hate us, and they hate our way of life.
Exactly. That's what the Taliban did, after all.
You might find this interesting. Some of it is pretty obvious stuff, but still interesting.
Four Facts About a Strategy to Defeat ISIS The American Spectator
Good article.
I agree. If Iraq is ever going to work as a country, they are going to have to put together a government capable of appealing to all ethnic groups.
If that doesn't work, they might frankly be better off just splitting up into three smaller countries; one Kurdish, one Shia, and one Sunni.
They should just have a secular government that doesn't favor anyone, but I don't think that would go over well either. I think that, even if they did split into separate territories, they would still be fighting about something.
That's why it's tempting to want to just go there and take over and say, screw all of you children! Lol!
They can't have a secular government. Go look at their US written constitution and search out what it says about Islam.
Did you every respond to my scenario about how you'd feel being forced to marry your male cousin? That's the equivalent of your proposal to reform those cultures. They're tribal. They haven't had the many centuries of influence we've had in having our culture shaped by the Catholics in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. The cultural divergence goes back even further in history than that.
We should have written the rules. This is what happens when you let children run things. They turn into disasters.
The Coalition Provisional Authority selected every member who sat on the Iraqi Governing Council, who wrote the constitution.
You may as well put out of your imagination an outcome where we impose Western values and principles on any nation in that region. It never works.
Heck, white people in America have been trying for a hundred years to turn black people into dark skinned white people and blacks aren't buying into that, they still retain a distinctive culture.
Then, we should keep them ALL of them out of our country and isolate them. We should completely wash our hands of the entire region. I think those are the only two options when it comes to dealing with these nut jobs. Either take over completely or abandon them completely. No more aid, boycott their oil supplies, etc.