“The record is not very friendly to military campaigns seeking to eradicate political military movement that are deeply rooted,” Bilal Y. Saab, an associate fellow in the Middle East and North Africa at Chatham House, told CNN.”
Who in the hell is Bilal Y. Saab anyway? As for his claim, I think Hitler, Mussolini, and many other tinpot dictators would disagree.
This is not a political war; it is clearly a religious war and must be prosecuted as such. Political “solutions” are no solution at all ... as history has shown for millennia.