Wait out ISIS; don't get involved!

I think the US is doing the right thing in attempting to shut down ISIS' financial network, including freezing its monetary assets globally.

The plan of action I argue for is make it difficult for countries, including Turkey, to benefit from its trade with the Caliphate and the supporting groups.  Russia should not be able to benefit from its backing of Syria, either.

What ISIS is doing is cutting deals that make those who cooperate with it to reap profits or escape penalties it would otherwise exact.  In the lands it occupies, it's easy for them to say to a citizen "You won't have to pay all the tax required, it you play ball with us!"  Or, to Turkey, "We're with you against the Kurds!  And, we'll kill them because they're your enemy!" 

Now, it's notorious that Muslims don't want to kill other Muslims, no matter if some Muslims deserve it--let the US army do it, because the US is the infidel!    Thus, Saudi Arabia, which is currently forming a coalition to stop ISIS' military advances, is doomed to display too little effort.

But you say, the EU can't effectuate an embargo of goods and services against Russia much longer, despite Russian aggression in the Ukraine and in Syria.  NEVERTHELESSS, WAIT AWHILE LONGER.  Russia is hoping, knowing the history of these European several countries, that they will tire and lose interest in the whole series of its own transgressions.  "It all will soon be forgotten."   All, except the mounting bills Russia is unable to pay and the arrogance of another dictator on their backs, V. Putin.

Congress is replete with members who want the US to make a major assault on ISIS.  To what end?  To support an Iraq government that simply won't contain the belligerence of its Shia' against the Sunni?  To put an end to ISIS aggression against the Syrian government?  To favor one Libyan faction over another?  To bolster Saudi Arabian's claim to be the true home of Islam?  The ever-continuing plague over the entire Near-East is not due to American influence but rather due to an endemic disease affecting its inhabitants.  Rid yourself of involvement not of your own doing!

The Lunz Focus Group is holding meetings attended by Muslim Americans demonstrating that a Reformation of the Islam religion is taking place worldwide, true, but absolutely true of Muslims living on American shores, as reported on the national networks.  Specifically, Islam is being fashioned for Muslim life in the 21st Century rather than promulgating its 7th Century culture.  And,  the Reformed Islam is without reference to an aggressive jihad against the "infidel." 
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Nevertheless there's the old Republican Guard, spearheaded by John McCann, and visible in the defunct Republican Presidential Campaign candidacy of Lindsey Graham, who boldly and self-righteously proclaimed, "...the world is waiting to be led..."

Is China waiting to be led; is Russia waiting to be led; is South Africa waiting to be led; is Brazil waiting to be led; is France waiting to be led; is Germany waiting to be led?  Where the hell do these jerks get the effrontery to claim the world is waiting for them to do the leading!

If so--if they are being prophetic--then let the world wait awhile longer!  For, there is within ISIS the seeds of its own self-destruction. 

Meantime, Western nations, mind your borders to prevent acts of terrorism; and minimize the violence in your own countries!