{"id":1631,"date":"2015-02-03T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T05:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2015-11-14T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T16:56:07","slug":"why-the-islamic-state-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Why the Islamic State is Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, they are dead set on pissing as many people as possible off, and their ideology prevents them from being able to acknowledge this. So they&#8217;re doomed to gather increasing numbers of enemies, and increasingly provoke said enemies, until those same enemies feel compelled to crush the Islamic State. It&#8217;s precisely the same reason why Hitler was doomed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>A look at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionproject.org\/news\/islamic-state-isis-isil-propaganda-magazine-dabiq\">English-language magazine<\/a> should be enough to convince one of that. It&#8217;s packed with rhetoric about how what they&#8217;re doing is God&#8217;s will. So any criticism of their aggressive expansionist doctrine amounts (in their eyes) to criticizing the Almighty, which is of course a capital offense according to their ideology.<\/p>\n<p>And, unlike with Al Qaeda (a non-state actor), war will be possible to wage against the Islamic State. It&#8217;s an actual nation-state (albeit not an internationally recognized one). It has an identifiable territory which can be attacked, invaded, and conquered. The well-understood concept of war can be easily applied.<\/p>\n<p>And what sort of state is it? A landlocked one, in control of a badly conflict-scarred infrastructure, surrounded by nations which hate it. And which it is fated to provoke even more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s doomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, they are dead set on pissing as many people as possible off, and their ideology prevents them from being able to acknowledge this. So they&#8217;re doomed to gather increasing numbers of enemies, and increasingly provoke said enemies, until those same enemies feel compelled to crush the Islamic State. It&#8217;s precisely the same reason why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}