Trying to condone the burning to death of a man in a cage

[Warpy]

35. ISIS also has a lot of support in the Islamic world

and it's not because they are monsters, it's largely in spite of it. There's a part of the human spirit that yearns for purity and perfection, especially among the young. In the short term, they won't lack new recruits.

ISIS must be doing something right, in other words.

Yes, they're kill crazy criminals who grab foreign nationals and hold them for ransom, slaughtering them with maximum cruelty when the ransom doesn't come through. Yes, they've financed a land war on stolen oil revenues and stolen military gear. And yes, they've declared war without any of the rules so-called civilized countries often break, anyway, something they learned from our war against Iraq. Yes, they need to be fought tooth and nail.

However, there is no prayer of defeating them until and unless local people get tired of slaughter and fully turn against them. It will happen. However, until it does, efforts should concentrate on eliminating as much of their funding as possible and humanitarian aid to the people who have fled them.