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Related: About this forumUS envoy: ISIS fight may last 'generation or more'
President Obamas envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) predicted on Wednesday that defeating the terrorist group could take a generation or more.
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen added that his assessment was based on the zealotry of ISISs ideology, according to The Times of Israel.
This will be a long campaign, Allen said at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar.
Defeating Daeshs ideology will likely take a generation or more, he said, using the Arabic name for ISIS, according to the Times.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/243896-us-envoy-isis-fight-may-last-generation-or-more
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Maybe they'll hate us a little less
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Trouble is, it makes the apparent argument that Daesh' ideology fell from space, is some sort of alien infection. It's not, it is a reactionary ideology. What is it reacting to? Continued western presence and interference in the middle east.
Defeating daesh - and whoever comes after them, and whoever coems afte them is not going to be done by blowing up as many people as we can as fast as we can.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)msongs
(67,509 posts)hopeful