Kudos to US for taking down Baghdadi, but ISIS menace still exists

The point is that killing any individual is unlikely to have an immediate effect on these dangerous organizations

The world should greet the reported killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by celebrating America’s exceptional Special Forces, intelligence agents, CIA officers and satellite-surveillance operators. It was a complex and challenging mission flawlessly executed. Unfortunately, it is far from “mission accomplished” in the fight against the so-called Islamic State. The terrorists will continue to pose an extreme danger to Western interests around the world, because they are not dependent on a single charismatic leader. Rather, they are a lethal and venal ideology - structured as a loose network of operatives around the globe.

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