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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsis - at some point does it implode?
I'm thinking of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. My understanding is that it reached the point where everyone was guilty of something, then several of the leaders went to the guillotine and things quieted down into Napoleon's military coup.
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Isis - at some point does it implode? (Original Post)
hedgehog
Aug 2015
OP
Soon they'll start turning that Highlander shit on themselves and in the end "There can only be one"
Guy Whitey Corngood
Aug 2015
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Warpy
(111,253 posts)1. Barring the emergence of a charismatic strongman
yes, they will implode eventually.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)2. I agree it'll take a strong man to keep it going -
but then the goal will be to keep him in power, for example Stalin.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)3. Soon they'll start turning that Highlander shit on themselves and in the end "There can only be one"
edhopper
(33,575 posts)4. The problem is
the government of Syria might be worse. And Iraq's is nonfunctioning.