"They'd be better off with attack helos "
Better than 500 T-90 Tanks, KA-50 helicopters, MI-24 Hinds, S-300 SAMS or 1000 Bear bombers (Ok, the 25 that can actually fly)
..................pick out the 10,000 most indebted, alcoholic, pissed off and in good physical shape, well armed Spetnaz soldiers, drop them in Raqqa with little support with orders to kill every male with a long beard for $50,000 (proof of scalp) and the return every certified Yazdhi female for $100,00 a head, then make their way to a certified Jordanian, Israeli checkpoint for a payday.
Get real, for a few bucks, much cheaper than any western military campaign, these ISIS arse clowns could be tacked on the wall of every western SOF squad bar within 30 days provided we drop the rules and take off the gloves.
Won't work though. The luvvies would rather see hundreds of bodies of refugee kids wash up on the beaches rather than to do what's right, no matter how distasteful if may seem.
Anyone object?