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blackbootz · 3324 days ago · link · · parent · post: "Origins and Strategy of the Islamic State" by George Friedman, co-founder of STRATFOR
Bleak. So what to do then? It seems that the IS has got itself in a pretty good position, despite or because of the fact that they are willing and ready to sacrifice the lives everyone around them. The United States is damned if it attacks them (ground war in the Middle East) and damned if it doesn't (suffering indiscriminate terrorist attacks indefinitely). And knowing how scared Americans are after the attacks in Paris--polls put American fear for their security as high as in the immediate aftermath of 9/11--I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination to think that all it would take is an ISIS coordinated attack on American soil for the shit to hit the fan. What's to be done?