re: #312 Dr Lizardo

still maintain that the key to defeating ISIS is taking the Syrian town of Dabiq: That town is absolutely central to their claim of being “God’s Army of the End TImes” and if they can be decisively defeated there, that will represent a blow from which they will never recover. It would be far worse than a military defeat - it would be an ideological defeat for Da’esh, a fatal one.

On the other hand, a battle at Dabiq is all they’re itching for.