The IS is the West, seems to be that the IS will face a similar getting much of its revenue from oil sales, and the de- outcome as the GIA in Algeria during the 1990s: at struction of oil infrastructure in combination with the that time, pro-Western segments of the population loss of territory is slowly drying up its revenue stream. [...] The imprisonment of fighters in Iraq is and are diametrically opposed to those of the US what led to the incubation of the IS in the first place. [...] The dilemma for Second, we need to disillusion the foreign fighters, the West is that we do not want al-Qaeda, the IS or and there is some evidence that the flow of foreign al-Nusra in power anywhere in the Middle East, and fighters from the West is slowing. [...] Russia’s ambitions often clash with in oil prices, the growth in the power of Hezbollah and Iran’s in the Middle East, and Russia is not interested Hamas, and the decline in the legitimacy of the West in an Iran that is too strong. [...] The “straw man” is a defence policy In terms of the electoral campaign, Hillary Clinton is where the use of ground forces have been replaced already positioning herself to the right of Obama in by the deployment of special operations forces, the terms of international security policy, including on use of armed drones, and the support of proxy forces.
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