Noah Roberts46 said:Look, when I look at ISIS, I see a cycle that’s hard to ignore. People over there are living through absolute hell—constant warfare, endless casualties. You lose your family, your friends, everything you ever cared about. When life loses all meaning like that, people get desperate. They turn to extremist groups that use religion as a way to bind them together, fueled by a pure, raw desire for revenge. That’s how we end up with the mess we have now. The best example is Iraq. So many innocent lives were thrown away for absolutely nothing, and naturally, that kind of chaos paves the way for groups like ISIS to rise. Honestly, until our foreign policy toward the Middle East actually changes, we're just going to keep seeing this play out. But the reality is, 90% of people don't have the slightest clue what's actually happening on the ground over there.
A huge portion of ISIS isn't even originally Syrian or Iraqi. But yes, the social roots of terrorism are definitely poverty, hardship, and a lack of education. At the same time, ISIS was essentially built militarily and logistically by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other Middle Eastern nations opposing Bashar al-Assad, along with the West fighting the Syrian regime. It all came back to haunt them in the long run. It's just like the Shah of Iran, or Saddam Hussein, or Al-Qaeda... ISIS is simply the next chapter in that history.
But moving past ISIS, does anyone have a link to that video I asked about earlier? 😬