ISIL Can’t Be Beat on the Battlefield Alone

posted on: Feb 19, 2015

By UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba

This weekend, we watched in horror as ISIL-linked extremists in Libya beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians. Two weeks ago, people across the world were repulsed by the killing of the Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. This brutal act revealed ISIL’s bankrupt ideology of death and destruction. This and the many other atrocities committed by ISIL—mass murder, rape, brutal suppression of local populations—have united the people of Jordan and millions across the Middle East in a call for justice and military action against violent extremists.

Now more than ever, like-minded people and leaders in the region see this as our fight—we must win both the clash of armies and ideas. The entire civilized world has a lot at stake in the outcome. But after seeing close up what life is like under extremist control, we are starkly aware that for us, everything is at stake.

Source: www.politico.com