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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per Marc's assessment, cure sounds worse than disease...gotta be gentler way.
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Sorry, Mark, not Marc. Mongol "cure" hardened radicalism, destroyed civilizational base.
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The only gentle way known to de-radicalize is a strong bourgeois virtues merchant tradition.
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good idea, the idea of US-led colony (similar to Brits) makes sense---the problem is generational...$$$
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has to be locally led or dead on arrival. Hence UAE as germ of commerce over war grand narrative.
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the British policy made sense to the population because it made them money


