There is no state army winning in the Middle East nor, really, against radical Islam elsewhere, which has exploded since 2001. Even the first time ISIS was defeated, in 2007-2008, it was by expressly sectarian Sunni militias in Anbar, not by the Iraqi army. The only successes against ISIS have come at the hands of expressly ethno-sectarian troops-not states you could identify on a Google map: the Shiite militias and Iranian advisors that accompany the Iraqi army into battle, the Alawi Syrians and their Hezbollah allies, or the Kurds fighting, with a wink, for the Iraqi state. Related: ISIS's 10 Most Extreme Acts of Terror Today, days after the Iraqi government admitted that its attack on Tikrit has ground to a halt, the death of the Templars offers lessons on how to fight the Islamic State, an entity they would have recognized very well. That didn’t help de Molay, whose order was exterminated as a road bump in the path of French power. As he died, Jacques de Molay cursed the French king who had betrayed him, and whose own dynasty collapsed fourteen years later. 701 years ago, on March 18th, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned at the stake in France.
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