Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Steve Cole/ New Yorker: 'Saudis & co. support ISIS but they can outdo it by providing 'sanitation & jobs'!!

Cole/ NYorker: 'Saudis & co. support ISIS but they can outdo it by providing 'sanitation & jobs'!! 
(These are thoughts worthy of an enema!!)

"...  ISIS has promised to govern as effectively as it intimidates, but its talent lies in extortion and ethnic cleansing, not in sanitation and job creation.... “We don’t have a strategy yet,” the President remarked last week, infelicitously, about Syria. He does have a coalition of allies in the region that are willing to challenge ISIS’s ambition, including Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. These countries patronize disenfranchised Sunnis in Iraq and Syria, and some of their support certainly reaches jihadists, including ISIS. Yet they share an interest in reducing Syria’s violence and in promoting regional and local Sunni self-governance that is less threatening and more sustainable than what ISIS has created..."

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