Why ISIS has the potential to be a world altering revolution

[the_leander]

As pundits and politicians stoked the recent shootings in California into an existential threat; as French troops were deployed in Paris; as Belgian police locked down Brussels, and US and Russian planes intensified air attacks in Syria following yet another slaughter perpetrated in the name of the so-called Islamic State, it was easy to lose sight of a central fact. Amid the bullets, bombs and bluster, we are not only failing to stop the spread of radical Islam, but our efforts often appear to contribute to it.

Read the full essay here. I'd also highly recommend reading the comments as well, as there is some superb analysis present there too.

Caution, this is a very long piece.