and, isis is not a misguided national liberation movement, either. the kinds of critiques you may apply to the worst segments of palestinian militants simply don't apply to isis, and there's two reasons for that:

1) isis is primarily composed of foreign mercenaries, not indigenous people. these are not people that have had their land stolen and are fighting to take it back; these are people that have come from afar to steal land from the people that live there.

2) isis is incredibly unpopular in the regions it is trying to conquer. and, this is the point that westerners attacking me seem to fail to grasp - what i'm saying is the populist position in syria, in iraq and in turkey. i'm the one that's the populist, here - and you're the colonialist.