#AlanB

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

I am entitled to state my opinion and if that falls on the deaf ears of both Putin and Obama - so be it.

Had they both agreed on a Security Council resolution - Islamic State would have been defeated long ago and would not have been able to commit the carnage it has for the last two and a half years.

#plantaganet

I am propoposing a UN military force composed of more than just Western boots on the ground. All 193 UN member States could be called on to provide military support.

Islamic State is a world problem and the world must collectively resolve to defeat it.

It is now operative in at least 25 countries and no State can consider itself free of its horrors and objectives.

#Bazz

Regrettably your prescription to let the Middle East tear itself apart will not stop the spread of Islamic State outside the boundaries of the Middle East.

David said; will not stop the spread of Islamic State outside

Maybe, but with the cessation of all airline and shipping services
we could give it a good go. The borders would have to be closed and
guarded but self preservation is already demanding that.
While ever they continue their cousin marriage practise I do not think
we will be able to reason with the Islamists. If they stop it now it
will take hundreds of years to repair their genome.

It is do something like that or settle down for another 1000 years of intermittent warfare.

Mr Singer's call for a Security Council resolution obliging all civilised nations to carry the war to the Islamists' nose is very timely and let's hope it gains a head of steam.

Indeed the civilised world could go further.

Islam is bigotry on steroids. Not just ISIS but the very core of Islam right back to the desert bandit Mohammed's orgy of butchery. The proper response is a sustained ideological war against the anti-human Moslem cult and against the widespread dhimmitude of major public institutions including news media busting a gut to shield the Islamic cult from opprobrium. The core of Islam is its religious supremacism and the obligation on unbelievers (and believers too) to cringe before its authority.

The Cronulla riots were a case in point. Moslems insulted and intimidated women who didn't observe Moslem dress codes on the beach, lifesavers became involved in the women's defence, fighting spread to crowds of non-Moslems, and dhimmis rushed in to deplore the non-Moslems as "rioters".

And recently, dhimmis rushed in to deplore Tony Abbott describing ISIS as a death cult and Peter Dutton for revealing Moslem immigrants' connections with ISIS terrorism.

All supremacism - any cult of "one true" or "special" faith or ethnicity - is a blight on the face of the earth and a threat to world peace.