TruthDig: 13 years does an ISIS make

[Songbird]

Great read with a ton of links.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_america_made_isis_their_videos_and_ours_their_caliphate_and_ours_201409

Americans prefer to believe that all problems have solutions. There may, however, be no obvious or at least immediate solution when it comes to ISIS, an organization based on exclusivity and divisiveness in a region that couldn’t be more divided. On the other hand, as a minority movement that has already alienated so many in the region, left to itself it might with time simply burn out or implode. We don’t know. We can’t know. But we do have reasonable evidence from the past 13 years of what an escalating American military intervention is likely to do: not whatever it is that Washington wants it to do.

I humbly ask that mods don't lock this up for awhile. It's a tremendous jumping off point for discussion.

 

[MileHigh]

Nope. We're in ISIS timeout. Everyone get some sleep and chill out.