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What to Do About ISIL?

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What to Do About ISIL?

by Charles Crawford  •  May 8, 2015 at 5:00 am
  • No Western leader strides out to the TV cameras and says that much the best response to the butchering of his or her citizens is to do not much, then wait to see what happens.
  • If we really do think that ISIL has no place in our century, let us start to give that idea substance: create a master-register of suspected war criminals; block companies that do business with ISIL from Western markets; cut diplomatic relations with supporters of ISIL.
Charles Crawford proposes that in order to fight ISIL effectively, Western countries should create a master-register of suspected war criminals, block companies that do business with ISIL from Western markets, and cut diplomatic relations with supporters of ISIL.
At a recent conference, I found myself bemoaning the ineffectiveness of Western military action against the Islamic State (ISIL). We in the West had decided to attack ISIL, but seemed to be pulling our punches. Why were their banking, propaganda and other facilities that support their terrorist operations not being blown to bits?
Imagine the surprise when a senior U.S. expert on these issues replied that by far the best thing to do with ISIL was precisely nothing: the Middle East and wider "Muslim world" was doomed to a massive revolting civil war, so let them get on with it and take stock of the situation once it clarified.

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