>>I honestly don't know. But I think that if we are going to be involved abroad, we need to take decisive action, destroy their caliphate and get out.
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>IMO such a course of action would worsen the terrorist situation. Going in without having trained a governing body outside first and make certain it is operating will only fuel more unrest. Also - while I am not a stickler for blind obedience to law, and international laws have a lot of stupid assumptions in them - going in there without a UN mandate just because a couple of US citizens (lets say between 10**2 and 10**3) were killed by multiple terrorist actions would be hypocritical if you set that # into relation to the estimates of non-combatants killed by the US in the last decade over there. Just to be clear: when Afghan circles declined to support US going after Al Qaida, I supported the military action, including german active support.

I agree with Marcia here. Kill them and leave. If more with the same ideas come, kill them and leave.
If all the liberal pundits are right, they're a small minority, so it won't be difficult.
Kill them and leave.

>>Going in without having trained a governing body outside first and make certain it is operating
Sounds good in the abstract but:
-Who decides what to train and who trains whom?
Didn't work in Vietnam, Afghanistan nor Iraq.
It worked in South Korea because there was a united population with a background in democracy ready to throw support behind an elected leader.

The Marshall Plan gets deserved praise, but what the US and its allies did in South Korea was truly awesome.
Look at some pictures of Seoul in 1951 after the Chinese had devastated it and look at it now.
The South Koreans are very aware of this. When I play golf with people from South Korea, they usually ask if I was a GI and when I hear that I was, they bow.
Truman and Ike get the credit- and they should -but there were Brits, Aussies, Turks, Colombians and others there.
Next time you use a Samsung phone or TV, thank them.

Regarding ISIS- what Nixon said was accurate:
"Get them by the b*lls and their hearts and minds will follow"