September 30, 2014 | The Huffington Post
The 9 Biggest Myths About ISIS Debunked
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a scholar and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argued that ISIS' “strategy is a mess,” because it has has surrounded itself with enemies.” Gartenstein-Ross and William McCants, a scholar of militant Islamism, both have noted that in declaring the Islamic State caliphate, ISIS has hinged its credibility on an unsustainable idea.
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