The portrayal of IS members as crazed and unthinking robots distorts our understanding of their cause. If we don't understand the motivation of our enemies how will we ever hope to defeat them? During the last months of the Second World War in the Pacific the U.S. navy was brutally (and effectively) attacked by Japanese patriots who willingly sacrificed their lives in Kamikaze attacks. The Japanese pilots were characterized by the Americans as crazy drug-addled drunks instead of the incredibly brave and resourceful young men wasting their lives for a corrupt regime. The threat of the Kamikaze was one of the deciding factors to use the atomic bomb on Japan instead of invasion. Hopefully IS can be defeated without the use of too much destructive force.