Not sure removing ISIS from Syria would really amount to eliminating them.
What I find really amazing is their distributed network of propagandists and recruiters throughout Europe persists. Surely the intelligence agencies have identified major nodes in this network, but we've yet to see major co-ordinated arrests, and Dabiq/Rumiyah is still being published. I've wondered whether intel agencies are working at cross-purposes to foreign policy agencies in this, as useful fools may have future uses.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link