From my perspective, IS has given the muslims currently & mostly fighting in Syria & Iraq a very active platform. Moreover, IS has an incredibly savvy approach to marketing itself, whether in cheap, branded clothing such as T-shirts (manufactured in East Asia, e.g. Indonesia) on sale in Turkey for which the demand has increased, or via social media such as Twitter and Facebook, which can easily provide global reach to any muslim or those who look for an "exotic adventure". This is utterly dangerous.
NATO was essentially set up to counter the Warsaw Pact. With the fall of the USSR over 2 decades ago, and ever since, we are increasingly faced with a dire Islamic threat. NATO as it stands no longer has much relevance. Time to re-think NATO, in my view.
Agreed. With the bombing of Serb civilians and the creation of muslim Kosovo, the total destruction of Libya, now that the Tatars in the Crimea are under the impression all they needed to do was demand 'protection' from NATO, while there are Tatars fighting in Syria, possibly now with IS, it all just doesn't sit right...what has NATO become? A servant of islam?