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November 2, 2014 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve read over the years that contain learned analysis of the ME, some of them dating back to the 1930’s. They can all sound very convincing in the first take.It is not a matter of me being rabid or even cynical. What is being put forward here is simple, romantic, revolutionary nonsense, buttressed by the reality that in the ME one can find any amount of facts to support theories that are not only contradictory, but even mutually exclusive.

ISIS will eventually be destroyed, as even those former empires of terror were. But ISIS will not be destroyed by some internal uprising. They will be destroyed when the nation states of the ME – incoherent and fractured as they might be – grow frightened enough to turn their full powers of destruction upon ISIS. How far off that is no one can say – and the more the West interferes the farther off it will be pushed – but it will happen.
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