Military intervention has gone after those oil fields, but it has not produced what we wanted to happen, to detach the larger population from the Islamic State. Islamic State is actually benefiting from a consensus among the population because of this joint venture created through the tribal leaders with the larger population in the running and exploitation of these resources. The population, to a certain extent, is benefiting from the advent of the Islamic State in those particular regions. If we bomb them, the population will look at us and will say, these are the enemies, while Islamic State is actually protecting us.
We must understand that we are fighting an armed organization that has morphed into a state. This state has control of the territory, and it has control of the resources. The population is looking at that as a better option than the one they had before, when they were in the hands of warlords, criminal gangs, a dictatorship.
Of course, this is not democracy, this is not the ideal situation, but it is better than what they had before. This is why I say that military intervention can actually be a boomerang.
Also, from the point of view of support, we're never going to win unless we have the support of the local population.