Can The Islamic State Be Stopped?

Thursday 7 August 2014





Will Anyone Stop ISIS? -- Josh Levs, CNN



(CNN) -- If you're following the news about ISIS, which now calls itself the Islamic State, you might think you've mistakenly clicked on a historical story about barbarians from millennia ago.



In a matter of months, the group seized territory in both Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic caliphate, celebrating its own shocking slaughter along the way.



"I don't see any attention from the rest of the world," a member of the Yazidi minority in Iraq told the New Yorker. "In one day, they killed more than two thousand Yazidi in Sinjar, and the whole world says, 'Save Gaza, save Gaza.'"



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My Comment: If ISIS faced a united opposition .... I doubt that they would be able to survive. But the opposition is in disarray .... and the West, including the U.S., are (at the moment) not interested to get involved in this conflict. As for the news media .... many have been AWOL on this story.

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