After spending a lot of time drinking alone in the dark and thinking about this, I think I have a practical solution to the ISIS problem.
The fundamental problem is how to separate the fighters from the civilians.
The land that they have occupied is basically the waterways of the Tigris and the Euphrates and everything in between. However, that does not include the sources of the two rivers (they are in Turkey and Jordan, I believe), nor their common exit to the sea. The land even a few tens of klicks from the rivers are desert (not counting irrigated land). This dictates their future moves, since the most precious resource for their survival is water, not oil. They will need access to the sea to import and export goods, and as you will now see, they will need to control the sources for security reasons.
I propose that we introduce an incredible quantity of tranquilizer or THC into their water supply. It would have to be non-lethal, available in sufficient quantity for prolonged seeding, and stable at the natural temperature of the water. And tasteless. It should take time to build up in your system, and take something like 4-5 days of drinking to suddenly take effect. It should also be long acting, putting people to sleep for something like 3-4 days.
Once administered, you would just march in, remove anyone holding a gun, and in confinement continue to give them the same water when they wake up, in faster acting doses until all the good guys you knocked out with them can be separated as you identify everyone.
As ISIS fighters are identified, you place them in a huge, enclosed, self governed colony wired with web cams, and using tethered drones to web cast their every waking moment to the world. Then let everyone see how a colony of testosterone-poisoned men age together without the company of women.
To make it economically viable, you sell the webcast access, and do pay per view events. Something like dropping an AK47 into the colony, loaded with blanks that look indistinguishable from blanks. I know that this all sounds like the movie Absolom with Ray Liotta, but that's fine. The you have another event where you drop a clip with live rounds and watch the fun. How about dropping a copy of Hustler? Or a copy of Gent with some bare-asses muscle man wearing only chaps on the cover. Wouldn't you pay a buck to watch that for an hour?
Do you think that this would present any ethical issues? Would it be a positive step toward comprehensive peace in the middle east?
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