Yeah sorry, quote was originally all I was gonna address but it isn't fair to ignore half a person's argument so I shared my overall thoughts.
No I don't believe the US is capable of getting a Jihadi group to work with them outright these days, I am saying that they are convenient to the US agenda and easy to herd.
"In this magic wipe away move, do you think it would be possible without a single civilian death? I mean do you think they could pinpoint every single member of ISIS and have them fall over dead without a single civilian death? "
No, you are right that would definitely cause the loss of some innocent lives, and you are right my bolded statement would still apply - what the heck am I on about then?
What I meant by my last statement is they undoubtedly have the ability to wipe out ISIS and the world would not object. They had this ability when they were a smaller group too. The whole crux of the argument that "they can't be blamed for taking innocent lives when ISIS are using them as shields" depends on the assumption that US involvement is a must to begin with- It isn't the US' duty to get involved, they don't HAVE TO bomb anyone and they are not "saving" anyone.
Western involvement is what has kept the Muslim nations divided since the fall of the khilafah in 1924 and even before that, through proxy leaders, the nationalism they crafted and injected into the society and many other factors - I do not want to deviate the topic too much.
