Isn't that action going to radicalize more? Isn't that what has been going on in the Middle East since like the 1800s?
Drop all aid to them. Pull out completely. Trade with them. Let them have their country without foreign involvement. The radicals would disappear pretty quickly.
Yes, the "weeb dem awone" theory. That when carried to its most basic level will lead to us fighting them here instead of overseas eventually. It's the "blame America first" syndrome.
There's a school of "thought" that we caused the entire Jihadist problem in 1946, when the UN created for the first time in history, the Israeli state. Never mind that the Arab Muslims for the most part backed and helped Germany, sharing its goal to eradicate all Jews, the UN stepped in after the war and said 'This is the Jewish State' and the US has backed that play ever since. Annnnnd.... the problems started.
How far do you take this "disengagement" deal? Stop backing Israel? If we just weeb dem awone, completely disengage and pull out all support for Israel too, what then - will the Jihadists suddenly love us? Or will they, after running out most Jews and slaughtering the rest, start coming after them in Europe and the main place they will flee to, the US?
There's no amount of appeasement which will bring about any decent solution, other than total capitulation.
The essential problem I think I see is, people counting these extremists thoughts and ideas as the same as the people we interact with on a daily basis. They're not, not by a long way. If we completely "cut and run" they won't think they have won, they will think they need to step up their tactics even more. They will quadruple their recruitment, and multiply their training centers exponentially. In five years you'll be dealing with a near unstoppable foe.
I advocate hitting them were it will really hurt them, economically and financially. Embargo their oil, impose trade sanctions for all countries harboring Jihadists. The reason we won't do that is China and Russia won't join in, neither will the Saudis or the Pakistanis, and we also have this fear of hurting the innocent people in those regions, economically.
Targeted drone strikes and surgical special ops missions seem to be taking their toll on ISIS leadership, communication and command/control. I think this should continue and be stepped up but only along with what we stopped doing, intelligence gathering. I agree that putting lots of troops in there isn't smart use of our resources.
We can't completely disengage. So it just becomes a matter of degrees of engagement.
This is why when folks blame the US for these problems, I cringe. It must be incredibly frustrating as an Islamic terrorist not to have your views and motives taken seriously by the societies you terrorize, even after you have explicitly and repeatedly stated them. Even worse, those on the regressive left in their endless capacity for masochism and self-loathing have attempted to shift blame inwardly on themselves, denying the terrorists even the satisfaction of claiming responsibility.
It's like a bad Monty Python sketch:
Terrorist: "We did this because our holy texts exhort us to to do it."
Self Loathers: "No you didn't."
T: "Wait, what? Yes we did..."
SL: "No, this has nothing to do with religion. You guys are just using religion as a front for social and geopolitical reasons."
T: "WHAT!? Did you even read our official statement? We give explicit Quranic justification. This is jihad, a holy crusade against pagans, blasphemers, and disbelievers."
SL: "No, this is definitely not a Muslim thing. You guys are not true Muslims, and you defame a great religion by saying so."
T: "Huh!? Who are you to tell us we're not true Muslims!? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for being."
SL: "Nope. We created you. We installed a social and economic system that alienates and disenfranchises you, and that's why you did this. We're sorry."
T: "What? Why are you apologizing? We just slaughtered you mercilessly in the streets. We targeted unwitting civilians - disenfranchisement doesn't even enter into it!"
SL: "Listen, it's our fault. We don't blame you for feeling unwelcome and lashing out."
T: "Seriously, stop taking credit for this! We worked really hard to pull this off, and we're not going to let you take it away from us."
SL: "No, we nourished your extremism. We accept full blame."
T: "OMG, how many people do we have to kill around here to finally get our message across?"
The truth is, Islamic leadership at the highest levels - the Mullahs and such - have called for the death of all non-believers for centuries. It's not a recent thing.
A Muslim is someone who reads Mohammad, a Islamo-Terrorist is someone who
understands Mohammad.