“I don’t know the best way to defeat ISIS. Neither do you”
I do. Apologize to Assad and say we will destroy the monster we created and then leave. Fully surround them with a large mechanized land army, no special forces bullcrap here.
Advance and destroy them with artillery and mechanized invasion...advancing through Germany, or Desert Storm is an example.
Impound -every-single-person- found inside the perimeter. Sort through carefully, looking for the genocidal war criminals that abound. Their photos are widely known.
Hang every single war criminal. Nuremburg is the template.
Deport all EU Syrians back to their country to rebuild. Fund the rebuilding as an apology to Syria for our starting ISIS and the revolt.
Spend the next 60 years pursuing every single war criminal that escaped the ring of steel before it was established.
Eichman and Claus Barbie are the models here.
The answer is fairly simple.
Sounds like a good plan. Does anyone have the will to implement it?
Hang every single criminal using the Magic Mulla Method. Large crane. But leave them for the buzzards, vultures, and crows to munch on...
“The answer is fairly simple.”
Everything in war is simple, but the simple things are always difficult. -Clausewitz
“Spend the next 60 years pursuing every single war criminal that escaped the ring of steel before it was established.”
That would include authorities in the West and Saudi Arabia who formulated the policies to create, encourage and sustain these ‘brave young men’, as John McCain described them while in conference with them.
You only missed dividing Iraq along ethnic lines and rewarding Turkey’s perfidy with an newly minted Kurdistan on its border.
I doubt Iran would like their new neighbors much either...