That is because the USA is building things and ISIS is destroying things.<p>It cost more to build things than to destroy them.<p>ISIS has an ideology that it uses to recruit people who are willing to work for a low amount of money and do suicide bombings. Most of their weapons they stole from Iraq, and they stole oil and sold it to raise more money.<p>Yet the USA spends more on its military and drones and still cannot stop ISIS. We are told ISIS is contained, but right after that the Paris Attacks happened. ISIS can just recruit people and give them resources and money to carry out attacks.<p>We are not fighting a nation or religion, we are fighting an ideology. One that can recruit people over social media and operate on a low budget with low pay because everyone they recruit thinks they will have 72 virgins in paradise after they die.<p>The USA is a nation of laws and we have a separation of church and state. We have minimum wage laws and pay people more based on their skill set and value. We pay more for our military and for building bridges because we are trying to build an economy and improve our nation&#x27;s infrastructure. ISIS does none of those things so they can operate on a lower income, and since their recruits can become a suicide bomb they don&#x27;t have to pay them after that. They recruit so many people that life is cheap to them and they sacrifice them as pawns.<p>ISIS or any other terrorist group always finds a way to get an income, blackmail, stealing oil, fake Islamic charities, raiding banks for cash, forcing people to pay a tax or be killed, killing people and taking their wealth, and all sorts of things. They operate like a criminal operation and are even known to deal in drugs as well sometimes.<p>Defeating ISIS will be very hard indeed. You have to disprove their ideology so they stop getting recruits. You have to cut off their sources of income. You have to kill of their leaders until there is nobody qualified to be a general or leader. Then in the process make sure no innocent women and children get killed or else it will be used as propaganda to recruit more people.<p>You have to understand what we might be seeing World War 3 in the Middle East right now if things don&#x27;t get any better.