What is sad and scary is that the default setting of US foreign policy in the Muslim world is military action, it matters not that the sitting US president is a Noble Peace Prize winner (cough)....
It shows a staggering lack of imagination that the best efforts our diplomats put forth inevitably results in a capitulation to the military industrial complex, which has a big boner right now.
Yes, what ISIS has been doing is diabolical, but what of the wholesale rape and slaughter of African civilians in CAR, DRC, Sudan, etc.?
The West's response to these various crises seems arbitrary and reactionary, and one can't help but think it's just war games and political posturing.