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To: LindyBill who wrote (590288)	12/30/2015 9:23:16 AM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Condo Respond to of 793778

When the Saudi Mullahs rose up against the House of Saud in 79 they won because the Saudi troops would not fight them. Sunni's are not going to fight ISIS for the same reason. I cannot believe we will put regular troops into Syria/Iraq to defeat them. We will have to try with Air/SF and Kurds and it won't work.They fade into the homes there while we try to ID them. Will go on forever, as it has in Afghanistan. The way I see it, it is a very complicated dance, going on for for many centuries. It seems that the Quran has in it things that appeal to peaceful people, but also things that appeal to militants. The conflict between those segments was always part of Islam. I'm no expert, but - in general terms - that seems to be the case. The Saudis fought Al Qaeda, and they'll fight ISIS. This is complicated - because ISIS is fighting their common enemy - Shia - who have been recently potentially empowered by being placed on track towards nukes. But, ultimately, the Saudis seem quite happy with their system, and wouldn't want to hand over their comfortable lives to ISIS. Like the Sunni Egyptians are fighting the Sunni extremists in their country. To follow Trump's example, I think we need a moratorium on ground invasions in the ME - until our leaders can get an efing clue what's going on. In the end, everything will be up to the locals.