Not quite. A collection of semi-local militias who managed to piss off just about everyone does not a caliphate make.
P.S. Though as a comment on the grandparent post, some suicide bombers certainly achieve their goals (and that’s even ignoring the obvious goal to die a martyr for the cause).
Achieved almost entirely by fighting through normal means, guns and such so I hardly see the relevant. Suicide bombing kills a vanishing small number of people. IED’s are an actual threat.
Their original goal as rebels was to remove a central government and now they’re fighting a war of genocide against other rebel factions. I wonder how they would have responded if you’d told them at the start that a short while later they’d be slaughtering fellow muslims in direct opposition to their holy book.
Really, last time I checked there is now a Caliphate in what is still nominal Iraq and Syria.
Not quite. A collection of semi-local militias who managed to piss off just about everyone does not a caliphate make.
P.S. Though as a comment on the grandparent post, some suicide bombers certainly achieve their goals (and that’s even ignoring the obvious goal to die a martyr for the cause).
But not enough for “everyone” to mount an effective campaign to destroy them.
Achieved almost entirely by fighting through normal means, guns and such so I hardly see the relevant. Suicide bombing kills a vanishing small number of people. IED’s are an actual threat.
Their original goal as rebels was to remove a central government and now they’re fighting a war of genocide against other rebel factions. I wonder how they would have responded if you’d told them at the start that a short while later they’d be slaughtering fellow muslims in direct opposition to their holy book.