I don't know that wiping them out is an option at this point. By killing one, we create two more. By killing civilians, we create hundreds. Conversely, whatever we're doing is an abject failure. It's easy to say train and arm our allies then walk away, but that's what we did in Vietnam and Afghanistan (1980's and 2000's), and look where it got us.


I don't know that there's a solution to the problem. Any course of action has serious consequences for us and benefits for ISIS. I have some ideas, none of them popular and all of them with huge drawbacks. The easiest one would be simple: no new immigrants accepted for the time being, no visas issued to anyone hailing from our with family ties to the Middle East. Isolationist? Yep, but until we figure out exactly what we're up against--and I'm not sure that we really know--isolationism is a key part of stemming the tide.

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