Respected Brothers and Sisters, Please excuse me for not being able to respond to every comment individually, again, I am relying on others to help in translation, so my ability to reply is limited.
What I can take from many of the dissenting comments is that I am not taking into consideration the possibility that Daa’sh will succeed in uniting Iraq and Syria in their overall project of creating an ever-expanding Islamic super-state. If they accomplish this, then, of course, the breaking up of Syria and Iraq into smaller states would not happen; rather they will be merged into one giant territory under a single authority.
It is quite true that I didn’t take this into consideration, because assuming the success of a strategy is not the same thing as analyzing it.
The merging of Iraq and Syria into a super-state is not a foregone conclusion, and we have to examine the likelihood of that happening based on observable reality, not on the basis of wishful thinking.
{ أَمْ لِلإِنسَـنِ مَا تَمَنَّى }
Based on the practical evidence I can see, I have concluded that this goal will not be achieved by means of Daa’sh strategy, but on the contrary, this strategy undermines the goal.