looks “an awful lot like something much more than a terrorist group.”
So does the Saudi Royal family, but that doesn’t change what they truly are.
ISIS is just doing what their belief system demands. That’s why Islam and its followers need to be eliminated, totally, within the borders of America, and destroyed down to the ground wherever else in the world they harm Americans.
They might be “more” than a terrorist group, but they’re also a terrorist group. Those expressions are not mutually exclusive.