tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post8009326362124995618..comments2024-03-18T02:14:30.318-07:00Comments on The Galloping Beaver: The Ottawa attacks and ISIS: A strategy? Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-83022998465932939142014-10-24T01:51:11.317-07:002014-10-24T01:51:11.317-07:00PLG, it's something that occurred to me and hi...PLG, it's something that occurred to me and hinges on a number of ifs. I hear you about the basic need to destabilise certain countries in the region and that's their long term goal outwith exterminating Shia and so on. OBL's quagmire strategy only works if large numbers of Muslims rise up in support. It seems that OBL was wrong on that and even very long US occupations don't seemBorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-16081665028236680552014-10-23T16:14:08.808-07:002014-10-23T16:14:08.808-07:00In real life though, I don't think IS planned ...In real life though, I don't think IS planned this in any way. They just dangled some propaganda, some people filled with anomie bought it, and then acted on their own. For that matter, the possibility remains that the whole thing was unrelated to IS. It's not like we have any suicide notes AFAIK.<br /><br />But IS, like Al Q and Osama before them, do seem to be talking up and Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-9178141169038061902014-10-23T16:08:59.314-07:002014-10-23T16:08:59.314-07:00I don't really buy this analysis but for the o...I don't really buy this analysis but for the opposite reason to Steve. Thing about IS is that their ambition is not really about setting up a state made up of half of Syria and part of Iraq, which is what they have now and which is about where they'll stay if the game continues roughly as it has been.<br />They want to create a united Islamic Arab caliphate across as much of the Middle Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-91979945152851067732014-10-23T14:28:29.999-07:002014-10-23T14:28:29.999-07:00Hi Boris I hope you are giving them more credit th...Hi Boris I hope you are giving them more credit than they deserve. Fighting ISIS is like fighting crime. <a href="http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2014/10/how-canada-should-fight-isis.html" rel="nofollow">Root it out.</a>Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.com