For all the US Republican tirades about being tough on ISIS, they’re missing the best thing they could do. Take in refugees. As many as possible. Welcome them in. That’s how you actually hurt ISIS.
ISIS as the Islamic State depends on having a population to tax, recruit from, and to lend it legitimacy as an actual state. 50% of their revenue comes from taxation and confiscation. The other chunk (43%) is from oil sales, which is already fucked (Reuters). If you take the population away, they have nothing. Perhaps more importantly, if people are fleeing, they have less and less legitimacy.
Now people under ISIS control have declined from 9 million to 6 million. Which is a good thing.
The West complains about refugees but gets all excited about dropping more bombs on people and committing troops. It’s insane. In this case helping people escape ISIS is the way to weaken then. As Sri Lankans should know.
At the end of our fight with the LTTE, another brutal terrorist organization, the most important thing was getting hostages out of LTTE controlled territory. The most important thing long term is still reintegrating them. It seems like the West would somehow prefer to bomb them into oblivion, but if you’re looking at it purely strategically, the refugee crisis isn’t a problem, it’s an opportunity.
People are voting with their feet to get away from ISIS. If you want to defeat ISIS, the best thing to do is help those people out.
haha what a wonderful idea. You should get a award for this.
And needless to say this will fail because ISIS is not a country. It’s a organization that controls or have a presence in different parts of the world.
And also why is the obsession with ISIS? There are many other organizations with a similar ideology and MO though they might be engaged in a turf war with the ISIS. For an example AQ is a very similar organization to ISIS in all cases though they have been less successful than ISIS.
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IS is not a structural organisation. Even they do not know about Quran.
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Hi,
This logic has a fundamental flaw. The refugees that enter western countries would not leave their adopted country even if the war ends in Syria
And since they have minimum skills, they are more likely to be welfare dependent. Poor language skills mean they become segragated and live in ghettos.
Overtime, a sense of injustice and alienation creeps in and leads to radicalisation thus creating home grown terrorists.
Western countries under severe budgetary constraints would not have resources to properly integrate new refugees. So the above mentioned cycle is difficult to stop.
You are a motherfucker moron.
I fail to see how letting in people with a culture of treating women like cattle would be strategic decision for Americans. They use this cattle like relationship to multiply their fertility/birth rate… You are completely out of it.
IS is not a structural organisation. Even they do not know about Quran.