Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.
Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.
The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.
We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.
We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.
Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.
I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.
Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.