Ross Douthat writes an opinion column for The New York Times. Today he questions those who say the Islamic State cannot survive.
Douthat draws interesting parallels between today's Islamic State jihadi terrorists and the Bolshevik terrorists of the early Soviet Union. Neither was expected to be able to survive, given their wanton brutality.
Yet the Soviet Union's Reds managed to hold on for 70+ years, murdering literally millions in the process. May not the black-robed crusaders of the Islamic State accomplish the same feat?
Given the absence of a concerted effort by the civilized world to exterminate them, they just might do it. Such a concerted effort is nowhere on the horizon.
