The Islamic State Is Failing At Ruling And Running Their Caliphate

In Raqqa, Syria, where airstrikes have damaged buildings and infrastructure, observers say the Islamic State doesn’t have enough expertise to effectively provide services and govern the city. (Nour Fourat/Reuters)

The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State -- Washington Post

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The Islamic State’s vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules.

Services are collapsing, prices are soaring, and medicines are scarce in towns and cities across the “caliphate” proclaimed in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State, residents say, belying the group’s boasts that it is delivering a model form of governance for Muslims.

Slick Islamic State videos depicting functioning government offices and the distribution of aid do not match the reality of growing deprivation and disorganized, erratic leadership, the residents say. A trumpeted Islamic State currency has not materialized, nor have the passports the group promised. Schools barely function, doctors are few, and disease is on the rise.

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My Comment: The Islamic State reminds me of the Khmer Rouge when they took power in Cambodia in 1975. They could not a run state and were totally disorganized and erratic. There are even more similarities .... the Khmer Rouge used their own version of Communism to justified their rule .... the Islamic State uses their own version of Islam today.  The Khmer Rouge used terror and brutality to control their populations ... the same can be said about the Islamic State. But in the end the Khmer Rouge failed at running a state and were easily thrown out of power when faced with an organized military opposition (the Vietnamese) .... I predict the same for the Islamic State .... the longer the Islamic State remains in power .... the more easier it will be to throw them out.