The IS is failing at being a state

by confuzzled dude Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:08 am

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The Islamic State’s vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules.

Services are collapsing, prices are soaring, and medicines are scarce in towns and cities across the “caliphate” proclaimed in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State, residents say, belying the group’s boasts that it is delivering a model form of governance for Muslims.

Slick Islamic State videos depicting functioning government offices and the distribution of aid do not match the reality of growing deprivation and disorganized, erratic leadership, the residents say. A trumpeted Islamic State currency has not materialized, nor have the passports the group promised. Schools barely function, doctors are few, and disease is on the rise.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-islamic-state-is-failing-at-being-a-state/2014/12/24/bfbf8962-8092-11e4-b936-f3afab0155a7_story.html?hpid=z1

by rawemotions Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:05 am

confuzzled dude wrote:
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The Islamic State’s vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules.

Services are collapsing, prices are soaring, and medicines are scarce in towns and cities across the “caliphate” proclaimed in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State, residents say, belying the group’s boasts that it is delivering a model form of governance for Muslims.

Slick Islamic State videos depicting functioning government offices and the distribution of aid do not match the reality of growing deprivation and disorganized, erratic leadership, the residents say. A trumpeted Islamic State currency has not materialized, nor have the passports the group promised. Schools barely function, doctors are few, and disease is on the rise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-islamic-state-is-failing-at-being-a-state/2014/12/24/bfbf8962-8092-11e4-b936-f3afab0155a7_story.html?hpid=z1

The main way to limit the growth of IS is to limit inflow of manpower.

As long as the official Sign-on bonus ( Non-muslim girls as sex slaves) that IS offers each Jihadi terrorist as a part of his employment package is not curtailed, the ranks of Political Islamist Muslim youths joining the IS to fight, is unlikely to reduce. There is a huge population of political Islamists in the overall Muslim population, so the base is huge.

Soaring prices, IS does not care. Apparently a drink created by infidels, the redbull is most favored by IS fighters and they pay a premium to get that from stores in Syria and Iraq.

Turkey allegedly looks the other way, while cross border smuggling of Oil from IS zones, are used to fetch revenue for IS. Turkey also looks the other way when Political Islamists turned Jihadists enroll in ISIS and move to Syria/Iraq.
Thus for IS to be completely destroyed, Turkey has to join the anti-IS coalition. Under Erdogan who is a political Islamist and heads a party that believes in political Islam, it is unlikely to do that.

The IS is failing at being a state

The IS is failing at being a state

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