What Motivates ISIS Recruits: America Got Rid Of Saddam But Provided No Security
Fascinating article in The Nation by a researcher who interviewed ISIS fighters to find out what motivated them. I strongly suggest you read the whole thing: More pertinent than Islamic theology is that there are other, much more convincing, explanations as to why they’ve fought for the side they did. At the end of the interview…
8 responses to What Motivates ISIS Recruits: America Got Rid Of Saddam But Provided No Security
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tracey marie November 16th, 2015 at 18:41
2003 saddam was toppled, cheny the snarly one said flowers will greet us….then they allowed fundimentalists to rule….yet 6 years later when PBO was elected it was his fault.
Roctuna November 16th, 2015 at 19:09
The west doesn’t know what it’s doing in the region and it never has. Now we pay the price instead of the British or the Russians who failed previously.
whatthe46 November 16th, 2015 at 19:33
quite frankly every country affected and attacked by ISIS have every right to be angry with us. attack the wrong country, knowingly, leave 10’s of thousand murdered and work hard to keep them from retaliating on our soil. it’s that but for rule. but, for bush/cheney…
crc3 November 16th, 2015 at 21:12
I’m up for the US handing over to ISIS those responsible for the Iraq war in exchange for peace. Namely W, Darth, Rummy, and Rice Patty. One can dream…
Tommie November 16th, 2015 at 23:24
Wouldn’t have this problem if Saddam was still ruling!
burqa November 16th, 2015 at 23:56
Though spoken of Afghanistan, the following quote is pertinent:
“In both Afghanistan and Iraq we have won the war, but we stand in danger of losing what we won because our foreign policy suffers from the King George Syndrome. Freedom is neither a spontaneous nor a universal aspiration. Other goods captivate the minds of other people from other lands, order, honor, and tribal loyalties being the most obvious. And because these other goods orient these people no less powerfully than freedom orients us, we are apt to be sorely surprised when people who are liberated turn to new tyrants who can assume order; to terrorists who die for the honor of their country or Islam; and to tribal warlords whose winner-take-all mentality is corrosive to the pluralism and toleration that are the very hallmarks of modern democracy…”
– Historian Joshua Mitchell, from “Not All Yearn to Be Free,” Washington Post, Aug. 20, 2003, p. B7; quoted in Imperial Hubris,, by Anonymous [Michael Scheuer] (Brassey’s, 2004) pages 203-204
rg9rts November 17th, 2015 at 06:02
We did secure the Oil Ministry
Gina Bousquet November 17th, 2015 at 10:14
Really knowing how things work for them is the biggest step to stop recruiting from growing