Just another in a long line of lessons in the dangers of asymmetric warfare and the near impossible challenge of an external force trying to impose civil order on a region. The most powerful military force on the planet occupied Iraq for a decade at tremendous cost, and a ragtag army of fundamentalists in pickup trucks destabilized the entire region as soon as the US left.
There's no easy answer on this one. ISIS needs to be stopped. It should be stopped with the minimum required force and with careful consideration of the politics on the ground so the situation doesn't deteriorate further.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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