Daesh has to be destroyed.
My concern is that it is a faction of cooperation, not enforcement.
Yes, they've moved onto enforcement of their ideology and that's why they are a problem for the world at large, but that isn't where they come from. It isn't like the usual despot whose power comes from the perception of power they already have, it comes from there being a school of thought within Islam that what they are doing is the right thing to do.
It's easy to de-claw the beast, we can easily say "think of those that would die if we didn't" to justify ourselves but once we take out the enforcement based action that is Daesh itself, how do we stop this hydra from forming another head?
History shows time and time again that strategies based upon enforcement will lose against strategies based upon cooperation. It was said during the Iraq occupation that the real war was for hearts and minds, and that goes for this a thousand fold.
We have to take actions that address the underlying problems; the reason Daesh hate the refugees fleeing the region is that, in their minds, all "true" Muslims should be flocking to them, the Quran is quite clear on that apparently. The fact of the refugees running in exactly the opposite direction, whilst militias including women fight against them and win at least some of the time, that's what damages Daesh, not bombs.
Very wisely put - wholeheartedly agree.
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