Will McCants of the Brookings Institution and David Ignatius of The Washington Post sat down with Ryan Evans to chat about the topic of Will’s new book, ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. In this wide-ranging conversation, our guests reached back into the origins of the Islamic State and came all the way up to the storm of violence that covers so much of the Middle East today. Have a listen!
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The Vietnamese experience should have (but sadly didn’t) teach us one definition of insanity…doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
The pure tragedy of Vietnam is that apparently it taught us nothing.
In this rather unusual article, an Egyptian scholar/author/journalist argues that ISIS is a legitimate son of Islam. This, of course, runs contrary to the position of President Obama and others that “ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.” The author argues that Muslims must cast aside the current ideology of violence and adapt to the modern age. http://tsecnetwork.ca/2015/09/28/isis-is-the-legitimate-son-of-islam/