Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
Yep, there are 3 ways.

1. Carpet bomb or nuke the whole region (inflicting a fair bit of collateral damage)
2. Send in a few hundred thousand ground troops and risk a few flag-draped body bags being sent home
3. Defeat the IS "ideology" on an moral, intellectual and religious basis making it unattractive for new recruits.

1 and 2 are not ways to defeat them, just drive them to another form of organization, and is already happening.

3. I argued before that is only achievable if the majority of Muslims get behind that cause. It cannot be done by non Muslims.