While America’s attention is rightly focused on white supremacists and our president’s steadfast refusal to denounce them, over in the Middle East, ISIS is reeling,
ISIS’s years-long rampage across the Middle East has been fueled by two things (in addition to a massive power vacuum, various nations’ opportunism and several
Tom Nichols is a national security expert. He’s a professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, an author currently out on
Bereft of easy cash from the sale of oil, to which the world remains hopelessly addicted, the black-clad international bogeymen at the Islamic State have
While America’s attention is rightly focused on white supremacists and our president’s steadfast refusal to denounce them, over in the Middle East, ISIS is reeling, and its de-facto capital city is in what may be the final throes of a bloody last stand. Kurdish and Syrian militia fighters aligned under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces—also known as the
ISIS’s years-long rampage across the Middle East has been fueled by two things (in addition to a massive power vacuum, various nations’ opportunism and several years’ worth of American nonintervention): oil and drugs. After hostage-taking for ransom became too onerous and not remunerative enough, money from the sale of oil bankrolled ISIS’s jihadist recruitment and endless social media-worthy recruitment videos.
Tom Nichols is a national security expert. He’s a professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, an author currently out on a nationwide book tour and a contributor to The Federalist—that august online journal of ideas, including the notion that using pseudoscience to justify white supremacy ranks you among the “greatest living Americans.” He is also
Bereft of easy cash from the sale of oil, to which the world remains hopelessly addicted, the black-clad international bogeymen at the Islamic State have resorted to selling drugs—including marijuana—in order to fund their version of the caliphate, according to a recent newspaper report. ISIS is like any other kind of entity on earth, be it comprised of terrorist gangsters
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