I wish the west would cut the bullshit and really fight these motherfuckers. The longer we dick around trying to play nice, the stronger they get and the harder it will be to defeat them.
I think Russia's way of looking at things is going to work. Putin's talking about working with Iran, with Assad, and the rest of the groups that had/have ironclad, and sometime laic, control over their territories.
The way we do things, the American way, is. So. Fucking. Terrible.
Regime change and spread of democracy? Who are we kidding? We're there to give the power to the local traitor fucks that give us privileged access to their country's natural resources and that's where it stops. The CIA and the FBI are nothing but an extension of Big Money. I see no military sense in what we've been doing in the Middle East since we invaded Iraq.