Isis must be confronted ideologically and diplomaticallyThe carnage in Paris,like 9/11, was a crime, and not an act of war,and responding to it by yet more bombing of Syria will only beget more violence in response. Isis will only be finally defeated ideologically. The vast majority of Muslims, who are just as horrified as everyone else, and are the only ones who can achieve that.
Rather than trying to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other known leaders,indict them for crimes against humanity and set up an international tribunal to try them, in absentia, and whether essential.
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Source: theguardian.com