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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no, I don't think so, unfortunately. Kaplan's Warrior Politics predicted our situation to an extent
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So... contain till renewables get big/post-peak-oil, then support UAE in economics-first hegemony.
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not sure we have that much of a luxury of time. They seem to be spreading like a virus
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