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[quote=Muslima]ISIS's presence in Iraq and Syria is fundamentally a political problem, not a military one.The key structural causes of their rise, cannot be solved by American bombs alone. The US can block ISIS's advances in some places, as it is doing in Iraqi Kurdistan, but eliminating ISIS is outside its power.  We can bomb all ISIS members today, but unless we defeat their ideas intellectually, then the ideas will re-emerge in another form as we've seen happen over and over. ISIS will not gain the majority Shia in the Southern part of IRAQ, but they do have Sunni support in the northern and western part.  The only way to defeat them is to make sure that they lose that support. They can not maintain their gains without deep support from Iraq's Sunni population and yes the locals support them, not because of their fundamentalist or "Islamic" ideology but because they see them as a nationalist revolution. They believe that the Shia Iraqi government is fundamentally illegitimate, so they're fighting to retake the state but this doesn't mean they want to replace it with an Islamist state. The only way ISIS can be defeated is if they lose local public sunni support but Obama's bombing and killing of Iraqis and syrians will only create more ISIS adherents and raise them as heroes defending their people against a western invasion. [/quote]

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