If anyone should be sorting Syria and ISIS out it's the rest of the Arab world. The only real chance of restoring the area back to some semblance of order is if Muslim peacekeepers are there. Where the hell are the Saudis, the UAE and so on? They should be leading things. We've given them enough weapons.
Because they would rather manipulate idiot western leaders into doing their fighting for them than get their own hands dirty and risk the unrest that would topple their corrupt regimes.
And our idiot leaders fall for it over and over again. We end up fighting for one side in a sectarian war and taking all the heat for it while they live in luxury and never commit any forces to the fighting.
Here's the kicker: so many Muslims put their hatred of the west down to the delay in getting involved in peacekeeping in Kosovo ... and also to the eagerness getting involved anywhere else. We are blamed whatever we do or don't do.
They are a loser civilization with a giant humongous chip on it's shoulder that thinks everything is everyone else's fault while they create rubble out of any place they touch.
Let's hope that Turkey swings towards secularism and choses "civilization" and doesn't get dragged into the radical muslim bronze age.
We certainly can't justify carpet bombing cities when we have the capability of performing more precise targeting but I also think that we don't weigh up the costs well enough - far more people may die in the long run in a drawn out conflict limited to surgical strikes vs a more destructive but shorter campaign.