ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
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If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.
ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.
We must take all that territory away from ISIS.
Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.
I'm afraid you're gonna have to see more American military involvement in order to keep ISIS from spreading even further.
Empty political space will be filled by extremists unless the United States and its allies build strong local forces that can suppress terrorist groups and warlords both. When the U.S. creates such local forces, it must be persistent. If it withdraws from these efforts, as America did in Iraq in 2011, it invites mayhem.
What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
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.
ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.
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