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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:39 PM Aug 2015

Isis - at some point does it implode?

I'm thinking of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. My understanding is that it reached the point where everyone was guilty of something, then several of the leaders went to the guillotine and things quieted down into Napoleon's military coup.

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Isis - at some point does it implode? (Original Post) hedgehog Aug 2015 OP
Barring the emergence of a charismatic strongman Warpy Aug 2015 #1
I agree it'll take a strong man to keep it going - hedgehog Aug 2015 #2
Soon they'll start turning that Highlander shit on themselves and in the end "There can only be one" Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2015 #3
The problem is edhopper Aug 2015 #4

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
2. I agree it'll take a strong man to keep it going -
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:57 PM
Aug 2015

but then the goal will be to keep him in power, for example Stalin.

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