(03-19-2015, 01:02 PM)QuietDad Wrote: What everyone fails to see is that it's a culture. Taliban this week, kill the leaders. New guys come in and call it Al-Qaeda, kill those leaders, new guys start up and call it ISIS. If it wasn't for the oil, if everyone just left and let them starve it would be over very quickly

Al-Qaeda was formed first, in 1989 the Taliban was formed in 1994 and ISIS was founded in 2013. You are in some ways right but in others wrong by saying they are all the say group.

The original Al-Qaeda formed by Osama Bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam is no more. Al-Qaeda is Arabic for "the base" it was the base for these other terrorist groups. What people often forget about Al-Qaeda is that the US supported it and give it weapons and trained their troops. This was because Al-Qaeda fought the Soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan.

The Taliban was originally a group of religious students who supported the Afghan government and fought in the civil war, however it then begin terrorising the Afghan people by imposing Sharia law upon the people.

ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant)  is a splinter group from Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) however Al-Qaeda has since disbanded it's self from ISIS because of it's brutality. ISIS made huge military gains in 2013/2014 and since the capture of Mosel's it has declared itself a caliphate. The capture of Mosel's sent shockwaves around the world as it raised ISIS cash reserves to about $2 billion dollars. It is also significant because it opens the road to Baghdad, the only large City before Baghdad was Tikrit. Tikrit has been captured by ISIS however the Iraqi forces are starting to retake most of the city.