Well not allow the United States to be dragged back into another ground war in Iraq. Because ultimately it is up to Iraqis to bridge their differences and secure themselves, he said.
There is an element of gamesmanship in the diplomatic strategy between the West and Iraq, says Hegghammer.
The tendency [is] for local countries to wait for a big country like the U.S. to step in and foot the bill in terms of money and human costs. The challenge is to avoid that, to get the local actors more involved to take more of the cost, he said.
The current inaction is strengthening ISIS, says Shiraz Maher of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at Kings College London.
At the moment there is absolutely no momentum or appetite to put boots on the ground in Syria or Iraq. And without that unfortunately, it looks impossible to challenge ISIS, he said. The Syrian and Iraqi armies arent capable of doing it, no Arab force is going to do it even if it has the capability to do so, and thats what makes ISIS such a potent threat.
Recent actions by ISIS - including the slaughter of Christian and Yazidi minorities and the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley - appear to be designed to provoke the West, says Hegghammer.
ISIS might want a medium-sized Western intervention in Iraq, one thats big enough to give ISIS political credibility and help them with recruitment, but one thats not large enough to dent them seriously, in military terms, he said.
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