Im not sure it is a good idea to have an end game at this stage and Obama is wise to be flexible. That said, an independent Kurdish state seems to make sense. Kurds have nationalistic aspirations vs purely religious ones, which could make a good model for modernization.
Anyways, I believe ISIS is a political problem, not so much a military one.
Turkey will never bite and what of the rest of Syria and Iraq? And I disagree on your last point. ISIS can be a military issue. ISIS relies on its territory to be able to call itself a caliphate. Take away the territory and the supporters go with it. Much of the migration of fighters to the region is driven by the fact that ISIS has established itself as an Islamic state. End its statehood and it dies. NATO could do that quickly, if the appetite was there.
US and NATO have been relentlessly pursuing a military solution in Afghanistan and Iraq for the past decade, with the only effect in Afghanistan being that the senior leaders hide out and wait for the U.S. to leave while in Iraq, they just wait and are regrouped under another name, first AQI, now ISIS, tomorrow it will be something else. Surely you don’t think ISIS just popped out of nowhere?
Correct, Turkey will not bite, likewise Turkey is not a reliable partner. You want an Islamist regime to support crushing another Islamist regime who it shares common enemies with? I have a bridge (in Islamabad) to sell…
"What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men."
I have lived one month in a muslim infested neighborhood and from this experience I am sure that the best course of action for this refugee problem is to send all of them back to their countries. It is not that they have it bad there, it is that wherever they go becomes a bad
I lived in an a neighborhood that had a pretty large muslim population, and my section of the neighborhood had the higher concentration of muslims as well and I never felt uncomfortable or unwelcome. They just seemed like normal people, living normal lives to me. Pretty disgusted with your comment elcoelhon