How to Beat Islamic State

This was posted elsewhere on RP, and I think that it is instructive:

http://www.newenglishreview.org/Nicolai_Sennels/Muslims_and_Westerners%3A__The_Psychological_Differences/

We must first know what we are dealing with before we can effectively deal with it.

A couple decades ago a wise young man published a book called "Rhinoceros Success". He rviewed all of the bromides then in fashion: Dress for Success, Get a Degree for Success, Build a Better Vocabulary for Success, etc, etc, etc and then observed that after doing all these things he found himself working for a multi-millionaire who dressed like a slob, was a high school dropout, and cursed like a farmer plowing a rocky field with a mule. After further study he discovered that success was picking a plan, any plan, and driving forward with it regardless of failure until you succeeded. Even the worst plans would succeed, he opined, if you put enough will and effort behind them. Like a rhinoceros who has poor hearing and poor sight and charges in a straight line, never distracted by anything, you too could succeed. It seems that his advice is the only we have yet to follow in diplomacy...

Isolate = control the territory or electronic medium around them
Appeal = give the population an alternative to Jihad
Clash of Civilizations = surgical warfare as opposed to our conventional we are going to run over and shoot your ass war

This is my best guess.