{"id":13801,"date":"2015-07-23T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=13801"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:59:32","slug":"what-if-isis-did-not-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/23\/what-if-isis-did-not-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"What if ISIS did not disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the rather terrible but also very troubling question asked by Stephen M. Walt on Foreign Policy in a paper titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/06\/10\/what-should-we-do-if-isis-islamic-state-wins-containment\/\">What Should We Do if the Islamic State Wins?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The author does no really answer the question he asks but I find it mind-opening to start from his postulate: Daesh is not automatically going to disappear because we want it to (or because this is a monstruous group). It may take much more than that to avoid the group which proclaims itself &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; or &#8220;Califate&#8221; really becoming an islamic state, stable and well poised between Irak and Syria, which may be what it is doing despite international efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As Stephen M. Walt, I absolutely do not like this perpsective, but we&#8217;d better start exrecising our intellect on the worst hypothesis in front of us. And I hope that some other authors will be able to bring some fairly good\/intersting (or even mind-blowing) answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the rather terrible but also very troubling question asked by Stephen M. Walt on Foreign Policy in a paper titled &#8220;What Should We Do if the Islamic State Wins?&#8221; The author does no really answer the question he asks but I find it mind-opening to start from his postulate: Daesh is not automatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,14],"tags":[2232,2230,2231,2233],"class_list":["post-13801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-social-issues","tag-irak","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}