Politics is an art of possible. How exactly do you plan to ‘defeat Islam’?
And once again your definition of Baathism as islamofascism is incorrect. Baathism is a distant relative to fascism, true, but it is really far from Islamist values. That is a primary reason why Baathists are attacked.
Politics is the mess that exists between the too-infrequent bursts of statesmanship.
Funny that you rush to the defense of Ba’athism, which is self-admittedly national socialism, never mind an empty comparison to “Islamist values”. The vast majority of Islam in the “Muslim world” in North Africa and Asia Minor features combination of nationalism and socialism.
“Baathism is a distant relative to fascism, true, but it is really far from Islamist values. That is a primary reason why Baathists are attacked.” — Yes. But even Saddam didn’t follow Assad’s ba’athism version (though both are arabs), there were differences between them too. The line Islamic State (IS), and company, are trying to overcome is to forcibly “unify” the entirety of that region with their version of islam or islam a la salafist/sunni. Otherwise, the ME & N. African region, is not only divided according to sects of islam, but also along ethnic/racial & ideological lines (islamic & not). The whole situation is more complicated than appears. Got to go for now..maybe a later discussion.