James Phillips
Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital, fell last week. It was a significant milestone, but more like the end of the beginning than the beginning of the end in the fight against the terrorist group.
Once the self-proclaimed “caliphate” loses the rest of its rapidly diminishing territory, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, will return to its underground roots and plot a comeback. This is precisely what its forerunner, the Islamic State of Iraq (formerly Al Qaeda in Iraq), did after being decimated by the Bush administration’s surge of American troops.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-syria-become-the-next-major-political-battlefield-23004
