It will demand and get a permanent place on the security council — wait and see.
Going to be a new member of the Arab League?
If they are Sunnis, not long.
Problem here.
ISIS claims to be the new caliphate. Therefore, by definition, it proclaims all other Muslim states to be illegitimate and declares eternal war against them. As well as, obviously, all non-Muslim states.
I don’t see any incentive for a Muslim strongman anywhere else to submit to ISIS.
Seems like only yesterday ISIS was part of Hillary’s enlightened Arab Spring celebration. Once they kill all their religious, political and ideological enemies, they will institute free and open elections, from which Western values will magically appear.
I expect Obama to give it priority official recognition.
Your last question, “ How long before the left begins protests against bombing or using any other military action against IS?”, is easy to answer. The day a Republican president is inaugurated.
Probably shortly after taking Baghdad or Damascus.
Never gonna happen.
ISIS can’t get along with other Islamic terrorists. They are Sunni arabs so Iran has no use for them. Even al Qaeda rejects them. They aren’t capable of organizing anything more than murder, kidnapping and extortion, the latter two being how they raise money. The people they conquer hate them.
Someone may well organize a Caliphate, but it won’t be ISIS.
Piglousy can’t wait to tell us all about their humanitarian efforts.
Two years.
ISIS will definitely get UN recognition if they kill another 50,000 Christians and Yazidis
Good question. It will be a couple of days after they get through exterminating the Christians and other religious minorities.
president zero will probably be the first to recognize them.
What happens when ISIS invades Jordan?
at the UN it probably already is.
Notice how he very carefully and respectfully annunciates their name and the fact that nobody in the press is calling these guys terrorists.
Soon we will be hearing from the media that ISIL is the new Arab equivalent of George Washington and the American Revolutionary Army.
They have already pushed that same meme with the Muslim Brotherhood.
To see how it's done, google the articles American media's hard sell Muslim Brotherhood charm offensive from two or three years ago