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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by criddell on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:17PM (#10570685)
Forgive me if this is in the linked article (it's not loading for me), but if we were to say to ISIS "let's negotiate", what is it that they want? Is it something reasonable?
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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by notsony on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:29PM (#10570740)
What do they want? Here you go.

This is the first (and only?) interview ever given to a Western journalist.

https://www.facebook.com/JuergenTodenhoefer/videos/101527236...

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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by criddell on Sunday November 15, 2015 @04:15PM (#10571243)
I just watched that entire video and it's pretty terrifying.
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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by vixen99 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:39PM (#10570801)
Why would they want to negotiate? They're winning hands down.

Seems pretty clear from many sources that their stated goal is to restore the "caliphate" — an Islamic state under the rule of a community of religious scholars guided by a caliph taken to mean the successor to the Prophet Muhammad For them anyone who doesn't believe in their interpretation of Islam must convert or die.

Meanwhile President Obama has encouraging words for them: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”. So much for free speech and cartoons.

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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by qohen on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:50PM (#10570860)
What is it that they want?

"What ISIS Really Wants" (The Atlantic, March 2015) [0]:

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...

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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by Natanael_L on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:43PM (#10575795)
No, that's not what we should do at all.

They got power because people in the region thought it was a better idea to give them power than to allow our destabilizing influence to continue. Take away all reasons for why they got support in the first place, and they will be marginalized by the people themselves.

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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by pan69 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:26PM (#10570720)
He's saying the west should stop interfering in the middle east, with which I whole heartily agree.
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