Nuking ISIS? While I have a moral problem with it, from a strategic standpoint, it makes perfect sense. ISIS has ceased a lot of territory. So what is the best way to take territory from them but without having to defend it? Make X amount territory inhabitable to everyone. You're effectively shrinking the battlefield and ISIS's ability to fight. The advantage ISIS currently has is that they're 30,000 strong which isn't too much but they're spread out all over the place. Giving them fewer places to hide makes sense. Also, even though these guys were trained to fight to the death, suddenly wiping out thousands of their buddies at once would still be psychologically damaging to them. Some of them, especially the newer recruits would see fighting being completely pointless. Assad being the asshole that he is would probably support such a plan since it may keep him in power and depending on what kind of nuke it is, there would be certain parts of Syria he wouldn't have to worry about rebuilding for some time.
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