Only a fool offers longer term predictions about the Middle East. I offer the following shorter term predictions about the Middle East for 2015.1. ISIS will decline in power and influence.
I do not believe ISIS is viable as a state; it lacks any coherent and functional ideology, any serious political and social institutions, any serious leadership process, any ability to handle the complex and detailed logistics of governance, and any opportunity of establishing state-to-state relations in the region. Additionally, it has alienated a majority of Sunni Muslims in the world, regardless of deep dissatisfactions among Sunnis in Iraq and Syria.
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Source: The Huffington Post
