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GoLeft TV

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Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:15 AM Nov 2015

Defeating Terrorism: What Can Be Done That Won’t Just Create Another ISIS?

Nation contributor Yousef Munayyer writes that neither airstrikes nor boots on the ground will defeat ISIS. He believes that we must address the conditions that led to its rise, and that means ending the Syrian civil war and the regional Saudi-Iranian conflict. Yousef and Sam Seder discuss this.

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Defeating Terrorism: What Can Be Done That Won’t Just Create Another ISIS? (Original Post) GoLeft TV Nov 2015 OP
The only thing that will work is to cut off ISIS funding at the source: KSA/GCC states and donors leveymg Nov 2015 #1
I was dissapointed that 'conditions for the rise of terrorism' did not include floppyboo Nov 2015 #2

leveymg

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1. The only thing that will work is to cut off ISIS funding at the source: KSA/GCC states and donors
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:27 PM
Nov 2015

Even at its peak last year, sales of pillaged oil only accounted for about 40% of the IS budget. See,

As UN Security Council Mulls ISIS Oil Sanctions, Most Funds Still Flow from Saudi and Gulf Donors
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026192755

floppyboo

(2,461 posts)
2. I was dissapointed that 'conditions for the rise of terrorism' did not include
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 06:44 PM
Nov 2015

economics. And climate change. But say climate change, like the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is irreversible, the economic climate that is driving impoverished youth to Wahhabi schools who promise large sums of money for recruitment, is partly reversible. I'm thinking it is unrealistic (given the bombs bursting in air) to set up soil-redemption and farming, but schools offering scholarships in such learning how to make such endeavors possible in conditions of peace might be. I think it would be best to stay away from education that challenges Wahhabi thought (for now) like teaching girls or history. But to give people a more immediate awareness that there is hope - immediate as in food on the table, the possibility of love and family. Sorry for rambling on...

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