After reading the Atlantic article I am convinced that ISIS will be their own undoing. They will continue to try to establish their caliphate and hyper-fundamentalist muslims will of course be obligated to join them to establish this caliphate and will eventually be defeated by their lack of progress and low morale will inevitably enter their collective psyche. Their territorial advances are already dwindling and eventually their caliphate will be a place of death and poverty. The coalition just needs to make sure they continue to contain them.
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Properly contained, the Islamic State is likely to be its own undoing. No country is its ally, and its ideology ensures that this will remain the case. The land it controls, while expansive, is mostly uninhabited and poor. As it stagnates or slowly shrinks, its claim that it is the engine of God’s will and the agent of apocalypse will weaken, and fewer believers will arrive. And as more reports of misery within it leak out, radical Islamist movements elsewhere will be discredited: No one has tried harder to implement strict Sharia by violence. This is what it looks like.
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