Namely biting off more than they can
chew.
Hitler sealed his own doom, and
Germany's defeat, by simultaneously picking fights with Britain, the
Soviet Union, and the United States. Arranging an overwhelmingly
superior coalition of forces to fight against you in war seems like a
dumb idea.
“Islamic State” is replicating that
insanely overconfident strategy in spades. Not content to be battling
Kurdish peshmerga, Iraqi militias, and the U.S. Air Force, it
responded to Russia's air campaign in Syria (mostly directed against
“moderate” rebels favored by the U.S.) by bombing a Russian
civilian airliner over the Sinai desert in Egypt. It followed up with
a terrorist rampage in Paris on November 13th, turning the
tepid French contribution against IS into stepped-up bombing.
Jordan's ruling king accused IS was waging “world war against
humanity.” The boss of the Roman Catholic Church, the “Pope,”
sees a possible “third world war.” Numerous national rulers
verbally attacked IS. It is beginning to seem as if that “65-national
coalition” that top U.S. officials brayed about might actually
amount to something at last.
The security chief of Iraqi Kurdistan,
a man named Barzani, opined in a broadcast interview that if that
coalition got serious, IS could be defeated in “months” or even
“weeks.” Surely IS-controlled territory could be retaken. IS is
despised and feared by most of the populace under its heel, and it
only has a few tens of thousands of armed men.
I predict the terrorist attacks in
Paris on the 13th marks the beginning of the end for IS.
(And I can hardly wait to say Good Riddance.)
But that won't be the end of the
problem of Islamofascism. IS was preceded by Al-Qaeda, and may well
be followed by another cancerous growth of murderous fanaticism
motivated by religious zealotry (and a lust for power). IS is a
symptom. The disease is spread from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. So
far, the U.S. has only been trying to treat symptoms, not the cause
of the disease.
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