What happened to the war on ISIS?

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Cato

Here's a fucking idea, why don't you non-Wahhabist types go clean up your own shit? Stop blaming the west for your ills

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%8..._Agreement

The Sykes–Picot Agreement /ˈsaɪks pi.ko/, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreement between Great Britain and France,[1] to which the Russian Empire assented. The agreement defined their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control inSouthwestern Asia. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Ententewould succeed in defeating theOttoman Empire during World War I. The negotiations leading to the agreement occurred between November 1915 and March 1916 [2] and it was signed 16 May 1916.[3] The deal was exposed to the public in Izvestia and Pravda on 23 November 1917 and in the British Guardian on November 26, 1917.[4][5]

"Dabiq" takes its name from a small town northeast of Aleppo where, says one Islamic hadith, the final battle between Christian West and Muslim East will ultimately be fought.

It is a plausible prediction. Dabiq lies on the shortest route between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean coast, a waypoint on the same natural highway that Sykes was seeking to control. The Assyrians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, the Ottoman Turks and Egyptian Mamelukes all fought decisive battles within 100 miles of this point. Khrushchev threatened world war in 1957 when Turkish troops massed on the border immediately to the north. The town lies in a warzone again today.

The ISIL video provoked great debate about how far the Sykes-Picot agreement could be blamed for the Middle East's chaotic state today. To argue that it is, is short-sighted.

This region, and Syria in particular, has for millennia served as an arena for great-power rivalry, of which Sykes-Picot is just a recent example. While the infamous agreement certainly aggravated the region's instability, it is not its underlying cause.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion...06123.html

The middle east has been a road filled with contention over it for not just 100 years, but for millennia.  To argue that Sykes-Picot is the cause of the middle east's problems is to ignore the role the region has played throughout history.