THE TOWER
by David Daoud
November 2014
In its quest for global cooperation in the fight against ISIS, the U.S. and its partners are turning to Iran for help. But it is the ayatollahs, not the caliphate, that the West should be worried about.
For months, the world has been gripped by the spectacle of the rise of ISIS and overwhelmed by the group’s brutality. A race is on to find a solution to this latest “biggest problem” in the Middle East. And rightly so. ISIS is a metastasizing danger that must be degraded and destroyed.
Dangerous as it is, however, the level of fear and panic over ISIS is not yet completely justified. And it is causing the international community to lose perspective and overlook a far more formidable foe and agent of regional and international instability: Iran. ISIS are murderers that bask in attention and fear; “a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology,” as Henry Kissinger has called them. Iran is a sober and calculating foe with global reach; the discipline of its loyal cadres and its quest for nuclear weapons make ISIS pale in comparison. In the inevitable fight between the West and ISIS, Iran must not be allowed to be the ultimate victor……
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