Not talking tactically here, where a bomb is sometimes just the thing. But stratregically, it’s hard to see how you could stop ISIS-type recruiting on six continents and every U.S. city, college and soccer team, with bombs. There’s not a good fit between means and ends here.
You are correct. The best way to counter their recruiting here is to promote our culture and religion instead of denigrating it.
My point was that we have lost the stomach for waging war against our enemies civilian population. Wars always continue until it is too painful for the civilians to continue supporting it.