ISIS recruiting seems to live from making things black and white.<p>I think the best course of actin would be to leave ISIS alone from military perspective.<p>Then airdrop food, water and medical supplies to the area. Not discriminating between fighters and civilians. Smother them.<p>Then give the civilians living in that area a way to voice their grievances. So that Muslim people in Egypt and France could feel sympathy for ordinary human beings trapped in that area. &quot;How can you treat our fellow Muslims so bad?&quot;<p>Now ISIS should be busy stopping people from messaging the outer world. And stopping people from drinking filthy crusader water. They would have to spend their energy enforcing a totalitarian state. It&#x27;s difficult for them to explain how there is holy war when the enemy is being so nice.