> You think you might want to think about whose purposes ISIS serves at this time?


That depends on who is doing the talking.

Even moderate Iranians believe that Israel benefits from ISIS. I don't buy into that theory, but it is a viewpoint of even moderates.

Others feel that any territory that ISIS hasn't gone after is indirectly benefiting.

I've even heard people say that the U.S. military industrial complex benefits - of course, people who make that claim are probably going to say anything.

Then there is a not-uncommon perspective in the West, that ultimately Russia-Iran-Syria benefit. Others in the west say it's Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey (where funding is being channeled through).