Peters: The Fall of ISIS ‘Does Not Automatically Bring Peace’

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SHAWN: "Mosul will fall this spring most likely. Raqqah late spring, early summer and then it will be a cleanup job. Eric, what concerns me at this point is what comes after — I call it the crisis after ISIS. There are so many rival factions. Some of them already fighting each other, even while the struggle against ISIS goes on. There’s so many contentious priorities from different players that the fall of the ISIS caliphate does not automatically bring peace. It means different people are fighting for different things. The Middle East will continue to be turbulent and we have not found our place in it. Everybody there is glad to have us fighting ISIS and using our military but once that’s done there’ll be squabbling among themselves and they really don’t see a role for us except sending more money."