I hope i’m wrong, but I bet this will be yet another of our military generals gay little deft moves, leveraging locals with a little of our data and scientific management thrown in and some careful use of precision weapons.
They will fail to note that this is a once in a century chance to do more than destroy them. They are screaming to be an object lesson before the entire world. Their destruction should be so shocking and dramatic that it causes every nation on earth to pause and take note.
The three things needed, and which won’t be done are
1) a shockingly massive, and insulting display of firepower,
2) a closing perimeter to arrest every fleeing war criminal like we did Nazi Germany. Impounding them for months in open air internment pens as we sort through them. Followed by hundreds or thousands of hangings.
3) relinquishing our effort to unseat Assad.
I predict something similar to our northern alliance silliness in Afghanistan, and the ISIS guys fleeing back to Germany, France, the UK, etc to live out their lives in peace.
There is no lack of will to destroy ISIS among Kurds or the Arabs they dominated. Even the Kurdish women are determined that no more women should be treated worse than animals. If you think they will not kill all of ISIS you are wrong.
The Arab community there is also very agitated. There have been more than 1,000 young Arab women join the YPJ. The want to end the cultural slavery they have been imprisoned in.
Are there issues with the dynamics of the local governments? Probably. But the subjection under ISIS is bad enough to fuse them together where it was not possible before.
The best possible outcome? For a total rework of Syria's government structure to accommodate the necessary changes.
I pray daily that will be the outcome. I have a deep attachment for the Syrian Kurds I have come to know in the past 2-1/2 years. Yes, many of them don't have my perspective. But I like and trust them.