The only "strategy" that's going to work against these animals is American boots on the ground, sharing the risk with Muslim allies in each of these countries.
When we did that in Iraq, things got better. When we cut and run, things went to pieces, and the blame for that rests squarely on 0bama.
These countries, individually, simply don't have what it takes, in terms of leadership skills and military equipment, to go it alone against fanatical militants who are being supplied and strengthened by money and manpower and equipment which is pouring in from outside their borders.
This Daesh/ISIS "movement" is too strong and well-funded for any one country to defeat. Leadership must be shown, both in the Muslim world and in America.
The destruction of ISIS can only come about as a result of American resolve, blood, and treasure, shared equally with millions of Muslims who are willing to fight beside us, in the hope of living in a semblance of a modern, tolerant society.
The alternative is to be ruled over by murderous zealots whose heads are still stuck in the Dark Ages and who want to dictate how every Muslim man, woman, and child should live.
Until America embraces this noble yet monumentally arduous task, the ISIS threat will continue to grow until it swallows the entire Muslim world. At that point, the whole civilized world will be forced to deal with it.
This is WW III folks, and it's high time that we set about the task of winning it.
Anyone who thinks that anything substantial can be done without American boots on the ground over there is simply detached from reality, and in a state of total denial.
I don't think there's a President, Democratic or Republican, who has the balls to admit that this is what is necessary. The world, including America, can't handle the truth.
America must, once again, lead the world into a new future, convincing the moderate Muslim community that this is a threat which must be destroyed now, so that their children and grandchildren can live their lives with at least a chance of peace and a measure of freedom.
I wish so much that this fight wasn't imperative, but it simply is, and nobody wants to face it.
When you tell your adversaries in advance that you're pulling back on a date certain they will wait you out. You don't telegraph anything to your enemy and expect to win. The stark truth is that Obama blew it; he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. And we are now paying the price for his blunder, his arrogance, and his ineptitude.
And you're right that the country doesn't want to hear or deal with the truth. The longer you let bad thing go on, the harder they are to deal with.