Man no truer statement was ever made then the U.S. State Department is full of nothing but useless “Protocol Droids”.... really all of DC is
If the premise is that people want to lop of my head do so because they are angry, poor, uneducated, mislead and radicalized and they ONLY way to beat them is to HELP them see the light, then we are doomed to failure again and again.
This is what we have seen since 1973-75. It has been the “Fall of Saigon” or “Fall of (you fill in the blank) since then because we fail to define the problem and solutions correctly. It has been a rare US leader who defined the problem and the resultant solution correctly. The last one was Reagan.
The solution is to deplete their ranks by killing many of them. If we had our act together we would have been carpet bombing ISIS held areas 6 months ago with B-52s while supporting all our allies instead of stabbing them in the back.