The Strategy

After the terrorism in Paris all the candidates declare that something has to be done to counter ISIS.  Its the the mindless response that ISIS wants! The western democracies must understand that a strategy that pacifies rather than exacerbates is what is required. Trying to hold together the failed nation states of Iraq and Syria exacerbates the tensions in the middle east.  To pacify let the various sects split apart and fully support with humanitarian and economic aid enclaves of decency where moderate political unions that serve its people can develop and use the military sparingly to defend their sanctuaries from the barbarians outside. Eventually these communities grow with those seeking refuge from terror and a place for a real life so that the swamps are drained of the good and the terrorist whither with no victims to terrorize.