To build on @rcallimachi's arguments a bit: ISIS is both a proto-state & an ideology. Proto-state can be "contained"; ideology can't
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What's the first "I" in ISIS stand for?
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@rcallimachi I think it would lose much of its appeal but not all. Ideology can persist after defeat (see neo-Nazism). -
@HeerJeet @fredgeorgiey@rcallimachi BINGO. We could militarily occupy all of Iraq and Syria, and the threat wouldn't go away.
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@HeerJeet The Internet will be the jagged little poison pill of democracy...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet looked. but is it really.. hmm.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet if we start crediting inspired attacks to promoters of ideology, Fox News anchors will need to have counsel at the anchor deskThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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