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We tried that ten years ago. How well did it work?
When I say brute force, I mean BRUTE force. No R.O.E's, just a brutal fight to the finish.
They're not an army mate, they're an insurgency. Send hundreds of thousands of troops over there and they just melt into the civilian population.

They tried your option in Vietnam and took out three million civilians and still lost. This is a huge problem but military force as your only weapon is not the answer. It's sending hundreds of thousands of troops into Iraq in 2003 that created ISIS and these Sunni rebel groups in the first place.