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Do you think we should wage total war on ISIS and al-Qeada?

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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
While they are undoubtedly despicable, my only concern is that too heavy of Western involvement will perpetuate the cycle. We could destroy them, but like a hydra, new groups would rise from their ashes. I think the people of the middle east need to be the ones who ultimately sort this out. They need to build a system for themselves in which extremism like this can't be nourished enough to become ISIS. That may be very difficult for them, perhaps not even possible right now, but I very much doubt anyone else can do it for them.