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Originally Posted by Z
Precisely the point. We should just leave the region well alone and let them sort it out themselves - even if all the bombs and drone strikes in the world kill every last ISIS member, there's still a gigantic power vacuum to be filled and something else will fill it - and it won't be a functioning democracy.
I don't believe ISIS are in any danger of ending any time soon - there's too much else going on in the region for there to be any chance of a coordinated effort to get rid of them, they're taking full advantage of the chaos and adding to it further (see: Paris attacks) to make significant strategic gains and I would imagine the most likely outcome at this moment in time is that ISIS becomes a legitimate state or becomes a Middle Eastern equivalent of North Korea; Turkey expands its territory; a Kurdish state of some sort is created and perhaps a couple of other quasi Saudi and Iranian proxy states. Bashar al-Assad is out of the equation, of course, but he's of little relevance while all this other **** is going on.
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we can't just leave the region alone because of the refugee crisis, how are you going to stop the refugees?
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