We are trapped by our enlightened culture. The enlightenment is a good thing but unfortunately our enemies are unwilling to participate in our enlightenment.

We, and our allies, are the most powerful force that has ever existed on Earth. Rome ruled for nearly a thousand years because they were not limited by cultural morality. We are far more powerful that Rome ever was and we could solve the Jihad problem easily if we were not bound by our evolved morality. We could destroy every vestige of their religion and kill as many as necessary to end their will to fight. They would do that to us if they could. We can, but our evolved macro morality rightly prevents it.

Even if some nut case is elected in the US or elsewhere, the things required to end the problem can't be done. No matter how powerful, individual nations are constrained from handling problems the way that Rome did. We can only hope that at some point they will evolve as we have. Sick to death with war and death to the point that reasonable factions prevail over individuals.

The obvious answer is to just walk away from the problem and let them "go at it" until they emerge as a nation that will negotiate in good faith. This is complicated by economic and humanitarian concerns. If we abandon Israel we could probably buy all the oil we need, but do we stand by and watch the apocalypse? Can we? Should we?