1) Too Little Ground Support (1 of 10)
1) Too Little Ground Support (1 of 10)
ISIS is not a guerilla outfit. It is a territorially-based militant organization that wants to govern a particular piece of land and relies on violence to crush any opposition to their rule. Therein lays its greatest weakness. Any territorially-based non-state actor that aims or claims to be a ‘state’ (as in Islamic State) needs a certain amount of support from its subjects. ISIS has none. And why would they? Beheadings and crucifixions do not make a pretty sight.
Any political analyst would tell you that one of the major disadvantages America faced in its war against terrorism, even though it has the greatest military in the world, was that it lacked ground support. If the lack of political affirmation from the locals transformed what should’ve been a quick war into an ugly lengthy stalemate, why should ISIS fare any better?
This can all change in an instant if the right person gains power. Nothing is doomed until it’s over. It seems they have no shortage of income and it has to come from somewhere, so I think there are more supporters out there than we may think.
I think the only True Reason why these groups of religious fanatics won’t win because they believe in FALSE GOD AND FALSE TEACHING. The True God Of the BIBLE HELPED ITS BELIVER.
1 Kings 20:28-30 KJV
[28] And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord , Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord . [29] And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. [30] But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.