In retrospect, if the Middle East had been well and truly nuked and turned into a sea of glass (with great potential for tourism in ca 10,000 years) at the time of the Seven Day War, all the current crap that's been going on there would never be.
(My advice to the powers-that-be wasn't followed then or during the several similar "wars" in the region after that. Worse luck.)

Under the current situation, if, say, a million Chinese soldiers were to be brought into the fray, with the cooperation and logistical support of other nations without such manpower, ISIS and its ilk would be gone in short order. But in all the conflicts of atrocity such solutions seem to be sadly lacking (or apparently even thought of). So much for global cooperation.

So Gaia continues her rout of vermin, both innocent and guilty.