I don’t think anyone here would argue with the energy independence aspect, but we would have been hit again and again if our only response was something that would take a decade or more to accomplish, allowing them to grow and get even bolder.
Carson’s solution to ISIS is to fight them by economic measures.
Fighting them by economic measures (primarily by developing non-fossil-fuel energy infrastructure — shifting to different sources of fossil fuel enables them to get the market back by enduring short-term price cuts, but a fundamental shift leaves them permanently high and dry with no use for their oil but to make a zillion gallons of camel lube).
I think I was pretty explicit about the military component aspect of what would have been an appropriate response.