"Eat all you want, we'll make more."
Posted on 12/20/2015 4:01:18 PM PST by Mariner
The West is making a strategic mistake by focusing its anti-terrorist effort on Islamic State (IS. previously ISIS/ISIL) and overlooking other groups, an upcoming report claims. Sixty percent of fighters in the country can be classified as Islamists and have goals similar to IS.
Those fighters belong to at least 15 other militant groups, which are mostly being ignored by the West, British media cited the Centre on Religion & Geopolitics, a think-tank run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, as saying.
Fewer than one quarter of the groups surveyed by the center had no ideological agenda, but many of them were willing to fight alongside the Islamists and accept their leadership in a post-war Syria.
“The West risks making a strategic failure by focusing only on IS. Defeating it militarily will not end global jihadism. We cannot bomb an ideology, but our war is ideological,†said the report, due to be published Monday, as cited by the Guardian.
The report comes days after the UN Security Council passed a roadmap to a political transition in Syria. The resolution adopted on Friday lists only two militant groups in Syria, IS and the Al Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda branch, as banned from negotiating the future of the country under UN aegis.
The report warned that if IS is defeated, it may give impetus for terrorist attacks outside of Syria under a rallying cry that "the West destroyed the caliphate."
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
The US and Turkey are dumb enough to believe killing ISIS and supporting the other terrorists will somehow bring stability.
Make the whole place glow in the dark.
Agree 100%. The fixation on “ISIS” is designed to make us think the other islamists are “moderates”.
Maybe we could use Syria as flypaper.
Well maybe Russia could.
I think that Putin has something for each and ever one of these Muzzies.The Jihadis will be wearing out their shovels burying their dead.
"Eat all you want, we'll make more."
There is no “civil war” in Syria. The bottom line is the problem is islam. There is no peace within islam, and there will never be peace outside islam, unless islam is destroyed down to the very last adherent.
All of islam must be destroyed, it’s beliefs outlawed, it’s holy places destroyed and left as nuclear no-go zones, it’s adherents killed down to the last screaming child.
Call it ISIS or call it al Qaeda or CAIR of The Muslim Brotherhood or call it anything else — it’s all the same enemy
is that the 65,000 OFail wants to bring here? :-)
The report warned that if IS is defeated, it may give impetus for terrorist attacks outside of Syria under a rallying cry that “the West destroyed the caliphate.
Did Clintoon write this bs to go with her claim that Isis is using videos of Trump to recruit?
As Trump and Jim have said, “Bomb the shit out of them!”
"Unless Assad goes, any peace deal will fail," [the report] concludes. "However, without regional support to pacify the country, the defeat of Assad alone will not end the conflict either, and will leave it vulnerable to domination by extremist forces.""International attempts to divide the rebellion into moderates and extremists are bound to fail, because the rebels themselves rarely make the same distinction."
The Telegraph (not Russia Today)
Make it very dangerous to be a raghead.
And if they get defeated, the moderate Muslims are ready, willing and all-celled-up. They just need to report to their nearest Mosque for weapons and instructions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the specter of nuclear warfare in Syria Wednesday, saying he hoped he'd never have to use the cataclysmic weapons in his fight against terrorists.
It’s frustrated me so much to hear them droning on about ISIS ISIS!! It’s not ISIS it’s ISLAM!! And all it’s jihadist offshoots!!!
We killed them all...
It worked...
May they soon reach their reward.
Yeah, but the Jihad may lose some of its luster when Trump or Cruz unleash swarms of A-10s and barrages of cruise missiles on ISIS, wiping out THOUSANDS of them on a daily basis.
I guess Obama has a job right after the White Hut
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