Thread by @diplocharlie

[Thread on a thread] A lot of relevant questions listed by @jasmineelgamal, on which I would add few points :

https://twitter.com/jasmineelgamal/status/1214313011340627969

1/ Beyond the decisions that are taken or not, the uncertainty created by #US messaging on #Syria before and now on #Iraq is making the work of US allies very complicated. Both military and civilian actions c/ #ISIS are paralized by uncertainty. Planning is simply impossible.

2/ Nobody wants #endlesswars and #America has to decide for itself its level of engagement in the #MiddeEast. The #US could be right to call for #burdensharing, esp. from #Gulf & #Europe, but the way it has been doing it makes it difficult for allies to answer operationally.

3/ What the fight against #terrorism needs the most is #stability in former #ISIS territories. That requires #security and therefore well coordinated efforts between forces which contributed to the fight c/ ISIS to ultimately empower the Iraqi State.

4/ But at the end of the day, the goal of #security is to allow #stabilisation efforts and push for economic recovery in order to tackle some of the issues which laid the ground for #ISIS in the first place, and among them : Sunni marginalisation. [end]