Thread: ISIS and the future of the Middle East

What do you guys think about the current conflict in Iraq? Here's a quick video for anyone not familiar:



I'm torn on the issue. On the one hand, constantly intervening in Middle Eastern affairs has done nothing but escalate the violence. The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I think ISIS is the penultimate consequence to the escalation of violence we've witnessed and to fight them the Shiites need to embrace equality, give the Kurds their own region where they can practice Kurdish law and enforce their own borders so they can muster up the strength to protect themselves. The Quran states that it is up to Allah to judge, and all who claim to know Allah's judgment are false-prophets. If the Ayatolla embraces Arab Spring, Kurdistan and the wave of social progress moving through the region, they can shift the tide of violence.