Thread: What Will It Take To Get Rid Of ISIS?

Originally Posted by Koojo

Originally Posted by Neverna

Some pragmatism is emerging from the US of A.

IS conflict: Petraeus urges Iraq to use politics to win - BBC News

IS conflict: Petraeus urges Iraq to use politics to win

Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus has told the BBC that Islamic State militants can only be defeated through a dual military and political approach.

"Industrial-strength" extremists cannot be dealt with "just with force of arms", he said in a rare interview.

Gen Petraeus described the group as "a formidable enemy".

Use politics to win a war of ideology.
It's as though he REALLY doesn't understand.
Which of course he doesn't. To use a jeffism, his western centric viewpoint makes it immpossible to truely come to grips with the situation.
"Use politics to win"

It depends on what he means by "Use politics to win".

Does he mean use politics to reduce or remove support from countries that may be supportive of IS?

Or does he mean get more Sunni Iraqis to support the government rather than IS?

Or does he mean negotiate with IS?

If it's the latter, it would seem to be a loss rather than a 'win'.


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