L'État islamique et ses ancêtres

(Illustration d'Edel Rodriguez)

  Au passage un rappel de l'importance de la perspective historique.


"In this light, the international community should continue to check the expansion of groups like the Islamic State, and intervene to prevent widespread human rights abuses. But given that the United States and its allies are unlikely to commit the massive military resources necessary to defeat the Islamic State — let alone other jihadist states — the best policy might be one of containment, support of local opponents and then management of the groups’ possible collapse.

We need to recognize what these groups really are. Referring to them as a “cancer,” as President Obama has, is understandable from an emotional standpoint, but simplifies and obscures the phenomenon. Jihadist states are complex polities and must be understood in the context of Islamic history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/opinion/the-ancestors-of-isis.html?ref=opinion