According to some experts in such wars, Bin Laden was to have said at one point that Al Qaeda's goal was to drag the U.S and other Western nations into the Middle East and then they'd bleed them dry. A little while back, Al Qaeda was the problem. Then came something worse but once ISIS is defeated, another terrorist group will take their place. This never will end. The moment Sunnis killed Shia's it exacerbated sectarian conflict that will only end when one Muslim leader unites all Muslims.
Saudi Arabia, specifically the House of Saud, are directly responsible for exporting the brand of Islam called Salafism which is the fundamental ideological guidance for Al qaeda, Islamic State, Islamic Jihad and all the other groups who claim to be fighting for Islam. If its true the the Islamic State is intent on targeting the Saudis, it would almost seem like the monster they created has finally turned on them. For what its worth, I think their american backers would help them out if anything ever got serious or out of hand, despite that though we have a long way before this ideology is completely extinct.
I think America should stay out of this one and let the Muslims decide their own fate. Sure America can send supplies and weapons, but they should not set foot there and let the Muslims and the region determine their own fate. The US has a bad reputation as it is, and they should not interfere or intervene with inner turmoil. Isis is performing "Islamic cleansing". they are eradicating every Muslim that does not see they world as they do. This is a regional problem and the USA should step back and pull American citizens out of the danger zone.
ISIS is powerful and greedy and I think the only way to stop this Islamic exteremist is to literaly destroy them with an international coallition...and then put some effort to inject some civilization and modernity to the arab deserted nations to prevent such groups fromed again...
There was some talk late last year [or was it earlier this year?] that the Arab League wanted to create a joint military force that would resolve conflicts in Arab nations. Since ISIS uses the existing hatred against non-Muslims to get more people to support them, only a "Muslim army" can destroy ISIS and their ideology. Otherwise the best the West can achieve is to weaken the terrorist organization.
Saudi Arabia was supposedly building a giant wall along the border with Iraq. To be sure, this is one of the reasons bringing Iran back into the fold is such a big deal. If you make Allies and business partners with the governments, then the extremists will end up fighting against their own governments. Wouldn´t it be a great world if the gov´ts of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq where the ones killing muslim extremists, and the USA was doing nothing but patting them on the back?
I find it funny that most people are not talking about HOW this group came to power. The top brass of ISIS/ISIL were former Iraqi military members. http://time.com/3900753/isis-iraq-syria-army-united-states-military/ The invasion of Iraq DIRECTLY resulted in the formation of this group. Will we ever learn?
That would be great but I doubt that Iran and Saudi Arabia will be working together anytime soon whilst the hatred between Sunnis and Shias still exists. Iran has been backing insurgents in Yemen hoping that they'll get a base from which they can easily attack Saudi Arabia should the need arise. Sunni ISIS has been killing Shia's prompting Iran to fight them using their proxy [Hezbollah]. I think the Muslim governments will only want to fight extremists if they don't belong to their sect or when like ISIS they threaten to upset the existing [political] equilibrium.
Of course it did, not only are most of them former iraqi military people, most of the equipment is stuff we gave them, and if Bush had not invaded Iraq and killed Saddam, there would not have been this huge power vacuum for them to fill. Not the most pleasant guy in the world, but he kept the terrorists out.. I agree with someone else who said it, this will never end, there will ALWAYS be poor people who can be manipulated into hating and blaming someone else. It is the same formula that works with racists and the KKK in the south and what Hitler did in the 1920s. You take a bunch of poor, uneducated young people without hope, and you focus their anger on some group and convince them it is ´all their fault.
That is a very concise way of explaining it. Socio-economic factors > religious factors. I suggest reading The Ascent of Money to get a great perspective of the hidden financial story behind major world events. So us just dropping bombs on them even more isn't going to really solve the problem it and, it may only exacerbate it. But we also can't just let them grow unchecked.
