jay_mcfc
Well-Known Member
You're beginning to see the truth.
ISIS aren't a particular threat to us here. Due to the work of our security services they have little to no real power or connections here and they certainly don't have "soldiers" here. ISIS don't even exist as a proper group, they're a collection of pre-existing militia who have banded together under a single flag and lack any cohesive structure or Command and Control infrastructure.
However, it is in the best interests of everybody that we all pretend they are. Fear is the most useful of all political tools that politicians have in their arsenal, intelligence services get funding and authority to do whatever they like, the media get massive clickbait and sales, ISIS get legitimacy to help with their recruitment to fight in Syria.
Presenting them as a big bad monster helps everybody apart from the citizens.
ISIS can't even hold back a poorly trained Iraqi army filled with traitors and kids. Their "press agency" was routinely hacked by teenagers in the US who were fucking about. The idea they're some secret global agency who have terror cells all over the world is quite frankly an absurd Republican wet dream.
Sunni extremism is bigger than just ISIS and the ideology is spreading a bit in Europe but not in any concerted or organised fashion.
Excellent post. The number of people that can benefit personally and financially from these attacks is staggering and part of the reason why they'll never truly be stopped - too many people with varying degrees of power don't want them to, or at least they know it's not in their best interest. Would 24 hour news stations even exist if it wasn't for the 'War on Terror'?