What can the USA really do to eliminate ISIS?

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What can the USA really do to eliminate ISIS?

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The bottom line is these people at ISIS or ISIL or whatever they're calling themselves today is that they are beheading these reporters (and other innocent civilians) for two reasons:

1. They can
2. They think it benefits their cause

The way to stop this is for the US to convince them that they are wrong on both #1 & #2. Now it becomes a questions of how. How do we make them see that they cannot kill innocent civilians and it does not benefit them to try? Well first we have to identify a strategy that will communicate to them what we want them to know. In short, how do we get them to understand what we want them to understand? The answer to this is violence, fear, and shock. These are the tools they use to get their message across because these are the things they know best. What we have to do is use these tools to make them see that their use of these three things (violence, fear, and shock) will not result in anything benifical to them. Instead their use of these things will result in an in-kind response from us on a level that makes anything they can try pale in comparison. Make them see that we are very willing and able to unleash a level of death and destruction on them that if allowed to go on would result in the total destruction of their civilization. A good place to start would be to begin a bombing campaign on their "capital" of Ar-Raqqah. We should bomb it around the clock for a week solid with every B-1 and B-52 that we can put in the sky. Bomb the place until there is literally nothing but dust. This is the only thing that will ever make them stop. The sad part though is too many here in the west are so politically correct that we do not have the stomach to go through with it. Thus ISIS will continue to grow into a worse and worse threat until finally they are in a position to pull off an attack (or attacks) as bad or worse than 9/11.

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Sad but true. Up[ to this point we've only gone in with half measures. We're so wrapped up in trying to make them like us and not wanting to "offend" anyone that we've blinded ourselves to the fact that to people like ISIS, there is literally nothing they want from us short of doing to every man woman and child here what they've done to these reporters. To them we're "apostates" and thus below dog shite and deserving of death. Short of killing ourselves, there is no bargaining chip we have that they want. There is no reasoning or negotiating with a group when the only things you have that they want is your life.

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You totally missed my point. I never said to nuke them. Instead I said that to end this threat we've got to respond to their violence and terror in such an overwhelming manner they realize there is nothing to gain and much to lose from continued hostile acts of terror towards us. This overwheming response IMO should be about two solid weeks of 24 hour a day rain of 500 lb GP bombs from an unending stream of B1s, B52s, and any other aircraft in our inventory capable of reaching their capital and dropping ordnance. Bomb their capital into dust and then scatter that dust in a hale storm of American iron. Make them sit there for day after day huddled in their bomb shelters until they start howling like dogs. And if they try anything else then go to the next city and give it the same treatment.

Is that brutal? Is that cruel? Yes, but if you have a better way to make them stop, I'd love to hear it.

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What can the USA really do to eliminate ISIS?

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Consider the fact that they think "their god" is real and more powerful and that with him they cannot lose in the long run.

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When, specifically. Japan?

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Yea, but how many innocent people will we be responsible for murdering?

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