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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
If they send anyone at all.
If I was to be concerned I would be concerned about home grown radicals.
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Pulled from the other thread. It's a bit of a read, and could use Coles notes (I'm a little busy at work) but I read it last night after seeing it on my FB feed.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...-wants/384980/
There are explanations in there regarding the "fight" ISIS is after, and where it will be waged (Dabiq, Syria). ISIS fighters are travelling there for "their version of Waterloo", and the terrorist acts we are seeing now are mainly perpetrated by homegrown radicals who have had their passports taken away by their home country.
A few “lone wolf” supporters of the Islamic State have attacked Western targets, and more attacks will come. But most of the attackers have been frustrated amateurs, unable to immigrate to the caliphate because of confiscated passports or other problems. Even if the Islamic State cheers these attacks—and it does in its propaganda—it hasn’t yet planned and financed one.
Reading that article (and it really is a MUST READ) leads me to believe that their eventual downfall will be their strict adherence to the ancient texts, which predict where and when their battles will be fought. Calling in all your fighters and congregating in the fields of Dabiq to wage a foot soldier war would probably be a pretty bad idea.......