"Who can devise the
most convoluted way to wipe out the Islamic State?" is the subheading Karl Sharro chose for his recent article in which he likens the politics surrounding ISIS to a cryptic board game that straight-up jars the mind. His analysis of the situation, accompanied with amusing, though probably accurate diagrams depicting the confusing and often contradictory policies of the region, is spot on. The truth is, there can be no victory over this Islamic utopia turned nightmare when there is no unified front to oppose them. The brave though minuscule Kurdish-Assyrian alliance cannot recover let alone preserve the receding territories being lost to ISIS. Yet, they are the only ones committed to the task because they know who they are and what is at stake. Moreover, they know their enemy with such intimacy that they have abandoned all fear in confronting them head on, aware that underlying ISIS's evil plots are the quintessential cowards and crackpots that have been equipped by the wealthy "chess-players" whom Sharro alludes to in his piece.
