Might be a little costly. No pol or presidential candidate is talking about it, but it is doable if we want to.
First, we invade the ISIS lands, occupy them. Set up a government of our liking. Do land reform. Hunt down and prosecute Islamic terrorists. Put 'em on trial rather than just shooting 'em down. Reform the education system. Make sure they are teaching the three R's (reading, riting, rithmetic) and some useful arts, and not preaching hatred and jihad. This whole program might take five years or more.
Pass some laws over here making membership in ISIS and the like a crime, also criminalize travel to ISIS lands and service in their military, and giving them money. Get US prosecutors out looking for examples and prosecuting them.
Keep on fracking. It blunts the "oil weapon". Keep the pressure on banks to deny them accounts, wire transfer services, money laundering, and anything else.
Make sure US TV coverage, especially news, in Arabic, gets into all ISIS lands. We have internet and satellites to broadcast from. Make some movies and TV shows that depict Islamic crazies as crazy and evil, and the true faith as virtuous. We defeated communism with blue jeans, rock and roll, and "1984", let's do the same to Islamic crazies.
Blow the Islamic crazies off the internet. Make their websites disappear, tap their email. Cancel their Facebook pages and memberships. Take down their snuff videos. Put software to work looking for Islamic propaganda.
Find some reasonable Imams and give them some support, TV contracts, book deals, air time. Use drones to take out the really crazy Imams.
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