No, I would support certain surgical strikes to head off really catastrophic things, like taking down the Iraq dam, or rescuing trapped Christians, or to interdict an actual terror operation against a U.S. city, etc., but to try to “defeat ISIS in the Mideast” is a waste of time.
You’re wrong. Churchill said we should have strangled the Bolshevik baby in its cradle. He tried. But war weary cynics and isolationist stopped him. Now, we need to do the same thing and stop ISIS before they create a genocidal revolution like the communists did.