Originally Posted by
Asturias56
after all these years and all that money they're still around.................. thats the problem with a belief system - it is hard to attack with military forces
Talk about moving the goalposts! I don't remember anyone claiming that the campaign was intended to eliminate the ISIS belief system. It clearly had to be taken account of in strategy and was/is a target for information ops, but the primary objective of the military campaign was to get people and territory out from under ISIS control, which has been a success. In the same way, WW2 stopped the ideology of Nazism from being imposed but did not entirely eliminate it. No-one would use that as an argument for the limitations of military force.