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I believe that is exactly wrong. There at most 5000 ISIS fighters. They will struggle to hold what they win and Bagdad will most likely be too much for them.

I read an article earlier that divisions are beginning to appear in Arab sunni groups fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq. Very likely ISIS won’t make it alone. However, so far they all seem united in overthrowing Maliki’s gov’t. But not all wanting an Islamic caliphate per ISIS’s ultimate goal. I see parallels with Khomeinist revolution in Iran in 1978-79. Different groups joined Khomeini’s supporters to overthrow the Shah. But once that objective was met & Khomeini got control, he executed many who had supported him but weren’t directly part of his Islamic circle. They just have to make sure ISIS doesn’t achieve what Khomeini did.

This is astounding. ISIS seems to be a rogue militant group turned terrorist while receiving financing, training, and weapons to battle Assad. They received funding from the Saudis and other allies we'd be better off without until they've reached about where they have incredible financial resources.

Nobody noticed? We can't even type an email without the gov reading it, yet they missed a rogue terrorist group we were financing? They could be stopped if the civilized world would drop other animosities, worry about a replacement to Maliki and Assad another day (or better yet work with them), and obliterate this threat to humanity, far worse than the Nazi threat of WW2, because it can easily go global.

This is the time to encircle ISIS, bring in the drones and wipe this cancer off the face of the earth.