Why fight ISIS?

[Secular Elf]

You mean, like Syria and Iraq?

There must be a stable country in the area that's capable of fighting them and in more immediate danger from them than we are, what about Iran? I'm not saying no-one should fight them, I just don't see how we can improve the situation

And if you want to fully destroy them and make sure they don't come back then surely at some point we have to send in ground troops and then stay there indefinitely, that's hardly a good solution

I see little hope of defeating these barbarians so long as the current policy of the Obama Administration in conducting this war continues. Air strikes alone is not enough. The "coalition" needs to step up more and the leadership of Iraq needs to get its act together, and the Syrian civil war, well, that is another thorny problem. I say it before and I will say it again. I am not a pacifist. Sometimes wars are necessary, though it is heartbreaking to see so many people get killed, especially innocents. But I weep not for any ISIS mother fucker who takes a bullet. If any president says he/she will "defeat and destroy" ISIS then MEAN IT AND DO IT!! Take politics out of it and let the generals handle it. Speaking only for myself, I support putting U.S. infantry as a spearhead alongside Arab forces. Get in there, mean business, and it is not over until the last ISIS fighter has a bullet in his head. Those ISIS fighters returning to their countries should be summarily arrested, tried for treason, then executed. These assholes actually believe, much like their Dominionist Christian counterparts, that they will usher in the Apocalypse. Unless we do that, expect the mess to continue, and ISIS to move forward with their plans, and more innocents murdered, ethnicities made extinct, and more world heritage archaeological sites destroyed.

I have no hope that there is an end to the disease called ISIS.