What to do About ISIS? Constructing Strategy, Weighing Options zenpundit.com/?p=39502 #ISIS #strategy
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I'd like to see a good post on a "media option" so to speak. ISIS seems unusually reliant on/vulnerable to optics.
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to engage in meaningful, accurate, effective PD/IO is really difficult, as can attest. Harder still when involves Islam
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the good news though is that such super pure Salafism might cause a reactionary pluralist coalition naturally
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Hmm...only group ever able to psychologically terrorize (not just defeat) extremist Islam was Mongols. Wonder why
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Eastern Iran is still depopulated because of the Mongols. baghdad, cradle of civ, took centuries to partially recover
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Wikipedia says Yasaq was a tribute decree and org unit. Are you talking about something else? Like a manifest destiny narrative?
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The Yasaq of Ghengis Khan was also a social/honor code, or so I learned from Grousset.
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Incident where Mongol generals rebuke Muslim envoys "Who are you to instruct we who have the Yasaq of Ghengis Khan?"
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