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[LOLDSFAN]

Together with other documents obtained by the Guardian, it builds up a picture of a group that, although sworn to a founding principle of brutal violence, is equally set on more mundane matters such as health, education, commerce, communications and jobs. In short, it is building a state.

Well I mean it's in the name...

 

[Piggus]

There cant be ISIS if more developed countries weren't handing them weapons.
A primitive and oppressive culture cannot manufacture AK47s and Tanks.

AK-47s are actually really crude and simple... But yeah, your post applies to pretty much everything else.

 

[potam]

Haven't they been funding the majority of their operations through robbing banks and collecting taxes from people in the areas they've taken? That's not a sustainable, long-term strategy. Oil is, but a few bombs could change that within a week.

And there's also the fact that they've blatantly shat in the faces of so many superpowers and still haven't been crushed, there's definitely room for some tinfoil hat conspiracies.

Taxes are pretty sustainable.