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Leave them to cock up their own country, remove any and all military presence from foreign soil and use the very same troops that were previously "fighting terrorism" to bolster domestic defence. Alternatively, all of the above but slash military funding, downsize the number of troops and retire/sell off unecessary equipment.

Pay them off with women, drugs and hookers

Along with ISIS, the only way to defeat them is by having a Sunni uprising, this will happen when people actually read the Quraan and understand that Islam is suppose to be a religion of peace and these people are nothing more than terrorists. This has worked in the past (2004- Iraqi Sunnis stopped an ISIS uprising by fighting them) and it will work again.

I was being serious...

So am I. After spending some time in Afghanistan I've yet to see an afghan or taliban who can't be bought off with then most basic of things.

ISIS is a Sunni (or at least Wahhabist) uprising...

The correct answer is that the only way to defeat them is with Western democracy, along with lots and lots of lead.

In other words, leave the Taliban to **** up people's lives with no consequence.

What can I say.

The fact that you consider any country as belonging to the Taliban indicates your moral emptiness and how utterly useless you are in this discussion.

Sorry, that was poorly worded. I don't mean to say the Taliban or IS own the country they operate in- I mean to say they are the responsibility of the government which rules in the country they operate in. When IS start an uprising in the UK and start to take over towns and cities, by all means the government should step in and put them down. Until then, what goes on in other countries is not our responsibility, and we shouldn't get ourselves in debt over politically-motivated wars (exibit a- USA)

Yes, ISIS is a Sunni uprising lol but there needs to be another one, this time with moderate Sunnis.

There needs to be a democratic uprising. I don't care if the democrats say they are Sunni muslims. I would rather they were secular atheists but it doesn't matter; the main thing is that they are (liberal) democrats.

And meanwhile our Muslim brethren in between abusing children, equally abusing animals ons some cases and treating women like dirt have had resounding succeses in promoting equality, democracy and economic growth.

They keep on voting in religious nutters.

So we lower ourselves to their level, rather than set an example, right?

And why do you think that is?

It's these democratic uprisings in the Middle East that create the problems.

Arabs don't seem to be able to operate in a democracy. They keep on voting in religious nutters.