Follow the money
Is it possible to weaken ISIS by attacking the financial structure, through which it trains its recruits and acquires weapons? No, not without a significant change in how the world polices its economy. Because like many structured criminal organizations, ISIS has grown and succeeded by exploiting the channels through which capital enters: drugs, oil, private funding, smuggled artifacts. Blocking the assets that fill ISIS’ coffers would mean rethinking the world’s economy. France – like the United States before it – is paying a very high price for its sin of inattention.
Is it possible to weaken ISIS by attacking the financial structure, through which it trains its recruits and acquires weapons? No, not without a significant change in how the world polices its economy. Because like many structured criminal organizations, ISIS has grown and succeeded by exploiting the channels through which capital enters: drugs, oil, private funding, smuggled artifacts. Blocking the assets that fill ISIS’ coffers would mean rethinking the world’s economy. France – like the United States before it – is paying a very high price for its sin of inattention.
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