Destroying ISIS won't save us from ISIS

That said, it’s entirely fair for voters to ask President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton how their experience and political skills have made a difference in this increasingly tumultuous world. A President must know how to heal wounds, but he or she should also offer compelling ideas about to prevent some of these wounds in the first place.

One thing is clear: bombing ISIS onto smaller and smaller pieces may well be an important and necessary thing. But after all these recent attacks—in Orlando, Istanbul, Dhaka, Baghdad and now Nice—it’s not enough to free us of the fear that the ISIS brand is far from finished.

There is no U.S. or international strategy that can solve that problem. The vast majority of the world’s Muslims do not support ISIS, but there are enough who do—including citizens of France, Britain, Germany and the United States—that we must rethink our assumptions.