I have been writing a series on terrorism…..a rational look at the phenomenon without all the emotional baggage that most attach to the subject…..that alone is a monumental undertaking because of all the mental midgets attempts to spread their ill placed fears…..I will probably not be successful trying to help people understand…..because some would prefer to live under the table quaking in fear than to understand a situation……

Sorry….I digress.

ISIS has been a thorn in humanity’s side for a couple of years now and we are NO closer to defeating (ending their reign of terror) this group and its barbarous acts…..maybe there is another path we could take to that end.

(If you listen closely you can hear the “cowering Connies” mumbling to themselves)

This is a press of an article that I found interesting and well thought out….

Policy makers should peel off ISIS’s overlapping layers of recruits, weapons, and political and financial support.

Make no mistake: Bombs can and do kill ISIS fighters. But like ripping off a starfish’s leg, the bombs can’t stop ISIS from recouping its loss. ISIS derives its power from overlapping layers of political and financial support. While many of these layers include recruits and other actors far from the ISIS ideological core, the layers are bound together by resistance to both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s mass killing and foreign military intervention.

In short, to get to the heart of the ISIS crisis, we must press our elected officials and other policy makers to treat ISIS like an artichoke. The most promising way to deal with ISIS is to strip off its overlapping layers of recruits, weapons, and political and financial support. Those layers have to be carefully peeled off, rather than beaten by a club into a mushy mess.

Source: Treat ISIS Like an Artichoke: A Non-Military Route to the Heart of the Crisis