You never let the enemy know what you are whiling to do, and more important, not do.
Saying we will not use ground troops would be like the Blazers telling their opponents we will never try any layups during the game to limit injuries to our players. Making the commitment of not using ground troops would make it easier for ISIS to cause more trouble. Sometimes the best way to push an opponent back is to go right at them.
I have no idea if we need ground troops in the fight, and if we do, how many, and for how long? But we need to do whatever is necessary to stop these radicals from forcing their religious beliefs on others.
Notice I did not say we need to win. To totally wipe out their religious beliefs would make us just as guilty of restricting freedom of religion as they now are.
Trying to beat ISIS would be like hugging a porcupine that has a tooth ache. ISIS has hundreds of ways to motivate their fighters. Some of the reasons go back over a thousand years; Israel is only one of those reasons.
But since you mention history, let’s take a look at how it started 1400 years ago.
In 624, Mohammed led a raid for booty and plunder against a Meccan caravan, killing 70 Meccans for mere material gain. Between 630 A.D. and the death of Mohammed in 632 A.D., Muslims -- on at least one occasion led by Mohammed -- had conquered the bulk of western Arabia and southern Palestine through approximately a dozen separate invasions and bloody conquests. These conquests were in large part the start of the "Holy wars". After Mohammed's death in 632, the new Muslim caliph, Abu Bakr, launched Islam into almost 1,500 years of continual imperialist, colonialist, bloody conquest and subjugation of others through invasion and war, a role Islam continues to this very day.
The Muslim wars of imperialist conquest have been launched against hundreds of nations, over millions of square miles (significantly larger than the British Empire at its peak). The lust for Muslim imperialist conquest stretched from southern France to the Philippines, from Austria to Nigeria, and from central Asia to New Guinea. This is the classic definition of imperialism -- "the policy and practice of seeking to dominate the economic and political affairs of weaker countries."
Although the law differed in different places, the following are examples of colonialist laws to which colonized Christians and Jews were made subject to over the years.
Christians and Jews could not bear arms -- Muslims could;
Christians and Jews could not ride horses -- Muslims could;
Christians and Jews had to get permission to build -- Muslims did not;
Christians and Jews had to pay certain taxes which Muslims did not;
Christians could not proselytize -- Muslims could;
Christians and Jews had to bow to their Muslim masters when they paid their taxes; and
Christians and Jews had to live under the law set forth in the Koran, not under either their own religious or secular law.
Source
http://www1.cbn.com/churchandministry/1400-years-of-christian-islamic-struggle
