In other words, ISIS wants a Western ground force to invade Syria, as that will confirm the prophecy about Dabiq.
Which is why the West ought to go ahead and give them what they want and crush them. That's what would happen if the West...or even the US alone...went ahead and did it and that wouldn't fit in with their prophecy.
I've heard a couple of historians talking in very different venues...the Sean Hannity Radio Show and Chris Mathews Hardball...saying what I already knew. What these people are doing is basically consistent with Islam as it was originally established. It's how Islam spread initially. They're just acting like Muslims did early on.
The guy on Hannity said something I completely agree with. He said we need to just go ahead and crush them. And, he said, if they come back in five years we need to crush them again.
That's the way it works. This stuff of thinking we can do some stuff for some short time frame and end it all forever just isn't reality. This is a problem like termites or cockroaches. Whenever it shows up, exterminate. But the fact that you exterminate and suppress the problem for a while doesn't mean you're never going to have to do it again. At some point the Orkin man is going to have to go into action again.
And, no, it's not going to go away if we improve economic conditions, etc. That's not what the problem is in this case.
Of course we could go with the "final solution" with respect to Islam in general. That would solve the problem for those of us who aren't Muslims. It would work too. Once we killed all Muslims it'd be very unlikely that the problem would re-surface to a significant degree. But that'll never happen.
But you have to understand that Islam really does call for what ISIS is doing. THEY are the ones following the true faith. The "moderates" are like Episcopalians in the Christian Religion...trying to balance secular views with religious belief. When you're seeing ISIS you're seeing what Islam really is. It's not a "perversion" of a "great and peaceful religion."