Wage Slave wrote:There must be another reason, but we aren't going to be told at this stage. I'm not one to speculate too much but I will say it's hard to think of a good reason for not destroying that building that isn't pretty scary.
If it's not some kind of nefarious Illuminati plot, one reason I could think of is the powers that be want Daesh to remain a more or less centralized "Caliphate" for now. As the Atlantic article that Yokohammer linked in the other thread pointed out, if you destroy the Caliphate, you take away the obligation of the Daesh jihadis to be there. This could lead to a mass exodus of people very willing and able to set up terror cells back wherever they came from. As awful as they are, Daesh might actually be relatively contained right now.