How would YOU handle the ISIS terrorist organization if you were in the Oval Office?

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47. Couple things

1) expose Saudi links to the organization and threaten economic sanction against the kingdom unless they several such ties. We know that such ties exist, it's only Saudi Arabia's position as our other Shitty Little Client State in the region that protects them. After making this clear, lean on Amman, Dubai, Kuwait, these other places that are funneling money to Sunni extremists, not just for IS but globally. Freeze assets, threaten sanctions, basically take a hacksaw to the funding pipelines.

2) Encourage iran, Iraq, and Syria to work together against IS. I can't claim to have specifics, since I'm not intimately familiar with te minutae of politics between the three, gut I'm certain a deal could be reached. Fund and supply the Iraqi army only out of the three, but provide logistics to all three. Apply airstrikes where necessary, but importantly only with clearance from the nation where they are to be conducted.

3) As for Syria, absolutely do not start bombing over the border, at least without express clearance from Damascus. Demand some capitulations for US aid vs. ISIS; a timeline for elections, more transparency for weapons inspectors, shit like that. The US has never been squeamish about backing middle eastern dictators, there's no reason to get cold feet about it now I suppose.

Ideally, we would stop fueling the civil war in Syria, and we would let the Iraqis do their thing.The only trouble with the Iraqis is that they were very intentionally poorly trained; Americans trained the Iraqi military to be wholly reliant on technology only the Us could provide, thus ensuring a steady contract for the MIC, and a weak military (because the last thing the US wants is a strong military in a state other than Israel in the region)