Finally someone gets it The Real Key to ISIS’s Appeal: Stopping Iran 29-12-2014: ... The [ISIS] has shown how high-profile atrocities can cow a larger subject population. But there is another, practical aspect to why ISIS manages to retain control of a vast territory the size of Great Britain: it has managed to make itself into the leading defender of Sunni interests against Shiite oppression. This is the true key to the group’s ideological appeal and it will not be dispelled by fuzzy American propaganda campaigns excoriating ISIS for its atrocities or putting forward moderate Muslims to proclaim that ISIS does not speak for the religion of Mohammad. The only way to dispel ISIS’s core appeal is to show that Sunnis can be protected against Shiite depredations without flocking to ISIS for protection. And that in turn will require the U.S. to show that it is willing to fight against Iranian-backed Shiite extremism as much as it is against Sunni-backed ISIS extremism.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:44:03 +0000
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