Agree with this.
If everything I've read about so called IS is true then they are a death cult intent on bringing about the end days and no interest whatsoever in talking to anyone. It seems quite simple with them ~ submit to their beliefs or die a horribly death. There's no middle ground whatsoever.
I also agree with your summing up of US interests too. A very dangerous nation,both to themselves and the rest of the world.
That's the problem not everything you've read is true.
You admit that yourself with the word IF.
[MENTION=22906]GingerBeerMan[/MENTION] is 100% right but is even more of a dreamer than the baby eating bishop.
Nobody is going to sort out the root causes, because they are all incestuously tied together through money and power.
The fact that America didn't go after SA after 9/11 says it all.
It's far better for those concerned to maintain the status quo, keep the planet teetering on the brink, scaring populations witless, and using the conflict to further their own gains.
The last thing Trump wants is peace talks.
I wasn't really paying much attention (says it all right there) but wasn't the police's right to shoot to kill being looked at, last week?
What's the point in remembering history if 'we're' not going to learn from it?
I've tried bloody hard to write that without a 'tin foil hat' perspective but it turns out that's impossible.