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u/ScotiaTide · 10 pointsr/CanadaPolitics

>That's why it's important to combat ISIS then conceive a permanent political solution.

Sajjan is talking about the need to understand population dynamics on the ground in a place like Iraq, and how rushing in is also likely to lead to a genocide.

I would suggest reading Patrick Cockburn"s The Rise of Islamic State, particularly for context on the problem in Iraq.

If we ever want to see Iraq exist as a unified state and also defeat ISIS, we need to understand why the Sunni in places like Mosul are terrified of the Iraqi Army. If we don't conceive of a permanent solution first, air support for the Iraqi army as it moves north is air cover for the death squads that follow closely in its wake. We would likely do nothing but set up the grievances for the next bloody civil war and the next ISIS.

u/princeofropes · 7 pointsr/syriancivilwar

Patrick Cockburn - The Rise of the Islamic State
is short and sweet, and avoids pro-Western jingoism

u/cg_roseen · 3 pointsr/syriancivilwar

It all depends on what kind of angle you're looking for.

Here is by no means an exhaustive list. I must say I haven't read all of these but have come across them in research and from previous recommendations on here, but here goes:

Background/Social & Historical contexts/Other relevant stuff

Patrick Seale - Assad (rather old, good for history)

Tarek Osman - Islamism (2016, broad coverage of Islamism in theory and practice, good context)

John Robertson - Iraq (2016)

John McHugo - Syria (2015)

Sami Moubayed - Syria & The USA (2013)

Sami Moubayed - Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship (2000, very good for Syrian history and experience with democracy)


Perceived pro-original opposition bias

Diana Darke - My House in Damascus (new version came out 2015)

Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan - ISIS (2015)

Charles Lister - The Syrian Jihad (2016)

Perceived pro-government bias

Patrick Cockburn - Rise of the Islamic State (2015, this might not be as detailed as you'd want it to be)

Kurds

Michael Knapp, Ercan Ayboga & Anja Flach - Revolution Rojava (2016, the detail in this is beyond insane)

u/gonzolegend · 3 pointsr/syriancivilwar

Well its quiet a task getting someone up to date on a war as complex as this. Certainly don't envy anyone just getting an interest on the topic.

As Hanihamawi said the Syrian Civil War wikipedia page has a lot of information as an introduction with plenty of links to factions pages to read their history. But being Wikipedia its a rather dry matter-of-fact chronicle of events.

Books would probably be the way to go. Only problem is I haven't seen what I would consider the de-facto book on the Syrian civil war yet. Suspect a few will be published once the war ends.

Best way to go would be to take it in stages. Good background book on the recent history of the Middle East, book on Iraq and the War on Terror period, and maybe try find a neutral recent one on Syria.

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - by Robert Fisk is a great backgrounder from a journalist who has lived in the Middle East 40 years now, covering all the wars and tensions in the region during that 40 year timeframe.

Aftermath by Nir Rosen is a good one covering the War on Terror period in Iraq. An American of Arab descent he moved to Baghdad in 2003 and lived/reported unembedded during most of the Occupation. Talks a lot about the sectarianism that began rising and spreading to neighbouring countries back in 2009 when it was published.

On Syria you might like The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn, another war reporter who has covered the Middle East for 3 decades now. This book is a collection of his writings on Syria and would make a good read for someone just getting interested in the war.








u/PentiumIII · 2 pointsr/explainlikeimfive

[This] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Islamic-State-Sunni-Revolution/dp/1784780405) book is a very good explaining how ISIS rise from the ashes of Iraqis Al-Qaeda.

u/nordasaur · 1 pointr/Ask_Politics

Not sure if you remember but I had asked about books on ISIS 2 months ago and you gave some good responses.

What do you think about this book?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1784780405?keywords=ISIS&qid=1453840359&ref_=sr_1_10&sr=8-10

u/frogsytriangles · 1 pointr/explainlikeimfive

Put very very simply...

ISIS, aka ISIL, aka IS (Islamic State), aka Daesh, is a group that currently rules territory in portions of Iraq and Syria. Their aim is to create a state ruled by an extremely strict interpretation of Sunni Islam, and they believe themselves to be fulfilling religious prophecy, one of the groups discussed in Islamic eschatology; their official magazine is named Dabiq after the down of Dabiq, where a Sunni Hadith declares that during the apocalypse "an army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina" to repel the armies of Rome. THey believe they are that army and anticipate an apocalyptic battle.

They are notorious for the severity of their laws (women must remain indoors when not with husbands or fathers, thieves suffer amptuations, public music results in beatings) and the brutality with which they enforce them, along with their terrorist tactics against their enemies (meaning: directly targeting civilians to frighten and intimidate people into surrendering). Their activities extend to things considered gross human rights violations by everyone but them -- using child soldiers, mass rape, slavery, mass executions.

If you are interested in reading further, I would recommend the essay What ISIS Really Wants by Graeme Wood and the book The Rise of Islamic State by Patrick Cockburn.

u/RiffFantastic · 1 pointr/PoliticalVideo

> Also, while we're talking about foreign affairs, how do you feel about the specific targeting of civilian women and children? Trump has expressly advocated for it. How do you not find that repugnant? How do you feel about torture--not "advanced interrogation techniques"--actual torture?
>

You're going to talk about a bullshit Fox News narrative and then go digging in the gutters for that garbage. When questioned about this Trump sited the San Bernardino terrorists family members that were complicit in the attack they carried out. Some of those family members have since been arrested by the current administration (Obama). He was also probably trying to ensure situations wouldn't arise where the surviving family members would profit from these attacks. See the article below for the action that is now being taken by the current administration (Not Trump). This all seems reasonable to me.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-attack-life-insurance-lawsuit-20160531-snap-story.html

And are you seriously that fucking disturbed about water boarding? Is that what you're calling actual torture? These people just beheaded a priest in a church today. We should go a lot further than we have been. Our rules of engagement are a joke.

And you're right. Hillary Clinton is not solely to blame for the rise of ISIS. President Obama can also take some of the credit for trying to solve this issue through air strikes and arming rebels alone. It's been documented in several sources that weapons turned over to moderate rebels inevitably end up in the hands of ISIS. All this because of their obsession with ousting Assad. This should all be common knowledge by now from the daily reports published in the mainstream media, but here's a book that's spells it out easy enough for you to understand if you're seriously that far behind.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Islamic-State-Sunni-Revolution/dp/1784780405

I also love that you seem to have no problem with all the overwhelming evidence of a rigged primary. Bernie was fundraising for Hillary all along. No big deal, right? Because ZOMG TRUMP!