The west should aim for a network of secular dictators across the region.
They should have been supporting Assad all along. Maybe western airstrikes combined with a Syrian army ground offensive. Western leaders just need to stop this nonsense idea about regime change in Syria, its that desire and their actions that have massively caused the spread of ISIS in the first place.
Gaddafi could have also been very useful but sadly the west actions in Libya have created another breeding ground for terrorists.
I said it all along, leave Gaddafi in place or Libya will be a disaster.
These western leaders we have are like some kind of sad pathetic joke that lurch from one disaster to another. This whole mess in the region is caused by their own actions. They have not learned a thing, at the end of this they may still try and topple Assad. We really are led by lunatics.