We talk about ISIS being a terrorist organization that now must be stopped, like many of the other terrorist organizations originating in the Middle East. The pundits are correct. They must be stopped, but lets use logic to do it. Cutting off the hand or foot of an organization only allows it to grow in a different direction.

When cancer grows as a tumor we don’t cut out the tendrils that are metastasizing, we attack the central growth and all of its tendrils. We cut it out, we starve it of blood, we irradiate it until there are no cells left to grow more cancer cells.

The terrorist organizations must be stopped at their source. We have to cut off the food supply of the organization. That food supply is money. ISIS is nothing without money. Its growing organization is funded by the dollars it has stolen from banks in IRAQ and Syria, and funds it receives from donors sympathetic with its cause.

Why only spend billions of dollars in attacking ISIS from the air, training would be supporters in Syria, and arming Iraqis like the Kurds who will actually fight the terrorist organizations?

How about attacking the source of funds? Those who contribute funds don’t just go to jail, they lose everything they own, liquidated to fund the process of taking down the terrorist. Like gangs in the United States, once they are labeled organized crime every part of the organization is confiscated and liquidated to fund more pursuit of organized crime.

If the funding source is a country like Iran. The best solution is to become energy independent and stop sending billions of dollars overseas to a country responsible for much of the instability in the Middle East.

Logic tells us that as long as organizations have money to burn, they will be able to attract, hire, train, and propagandize people into believing they are following a will greater than their own. In this case that will is supposedly Allah.

Without money the will, the power of the organization is at best localized. Without money, without food, without armaments they will wither and die or be destroyed by the forces with which they claim to be at war.

Let’s use our heads and declare all out war on the funding sources for ISIS terrorists and other terrorist organizations. Like a weed they must be destroyed from the root up where they receive nourishment. Once all funding links to these organizations are destroyed, the organization itself will fall.