The reason we won't be putting ISIS out of business any time soon is because it's not in our interest, or not in our interest as defined by our elected leaders, to do so. I'm not sure what they think is in our interest, but putting ISIS our of business s not part of it.
Were we serious about wanting ISIS gone, and with them the rest of the murderous Salafist gangs running rampant across the Middle East, we would make common cause with al-Assad's Syria and Iran.
This won't happen, of course. So the long and seemingly endless GWOT continues. Perhaps the question to ask is in whose interest is that?

"Perhaps the question to ask is in whose interest is that?"

And what's your answer?

John Pilger I don't agree with your left wing market view for our economies but I love your naked truth.

In reality our financial oligarchs like the Rothschilds have rigged the markets and fabricated many wars.The markets have not been allowed to operate with any honesty for a long time,since a few have far too much power.

@Jardine K. Jardine
Posted Friday, 10 October 2014 5:36:01 PM
"Perhaps the question to ask is in whose interest is that?"
GWOT seems to benefit the West's arms and hydrocarbon merchants. It also benefits the US's quest for a unipolar world in that it allows for extreme and invasive surveillance in the name of preventing terrorists attacks on or in the 'homeland'. This is the same invasive surveillance and resultant control of the narrative that allows misreporting of events in the MSM thereby shaping public hysteria which in turn allows Governments to get away with murder.
Australia, England and some EU countries are aping this degradation of basic civil liberties.
The war on ISIS benefits no one. It could be, and probably is, a sham, a con of the first order. Turkey likes ISIS as they are hammering the Kurds. The US and Israel like ISIS as it is keeping Iraq impotent, and they hope to turn it against al-Assad's Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States like ISIS because they are Sunni fighting Shiah.
The entire exercise reeks of hypocrisy, and is bringing our the very worst is any number of public players, players who refuse to learn from recent history. Among them would be our PM, accurately described in this article as "Australia's aggressively weird Tony Abbott".

halduell
I largely agree with that, although I think the war on ISIS probably benefits a similar configuration of interests as the gwot.

So what do you say to those who claim that democracy justifies the exercise of power?

Jardine K. Jardine
I'm not too sure what to make of that comment. My first thought is that it's an Alice in Wonderland comment. Democracy justifies the exercise of power? Is that a request for a blank cheque?
I think I would ask anyone making such a comment for clarification. All sorts of nonsense has gone down behind "democracy" in recent years. I still think multi-party democracy is the way to go, but this has all too often been channelled into a duopoly that is a democracy, as I understand the term, in name only.
But it could be an interesting thought. Care to take it any further?