Can ISIS be stopped?

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The problem is lone wolves. It is quite likely the whole sorry racket will collapse in on itself soon, but then what happens? Untold numbers of radicalised, delocalised, trained ISIS fighters worm their way back into refugee camps, prisons and their own countries, continuing to radicalise others or destabilise areas like the Magrheb, the Horn of Africa, Central Asia, Turkey, the Balkans, the Gulf, the Caucasus and SE Asia through individual acts of terror. iSIS is best understood as a marketing exercise. Linking your regional struggle to the worldwide ISIS brand is a great way to market yourself as a big shot.

How to stop it? Focus on de radicalisation efforts. Tedious, I guess; but the least bad option.

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I would like to restate that ISIS is not a uniquely violent organisation. The sorts of violent atrocities that ISIS regularly carry out in their territory are no less violent to other similar conflicts and flashpoints throughout the third world (and, when "the First World" was at total war, exactly the same sort of outrage was done then). The difference is ISIS are spreading their ideals (and promoting their ideals) through what is essentially a high-level marketing exercise aimed at the most susceptible people on earth- 15-25 year-olds. ISIS want to be the brand of choice for your young Muslim male. It's not that religious in a sense - the sort of conservative teenager who studies the Koran everyday willingly is not the target market for an ISIS recruit. Indeed, most ISIS members are not noted for being particularly devout. Rather, ISIS feeds on boredom and listlessness; and instead gives them a chance to indulge in what is essentially consequence free delinquency, all while subsuming themselves into the wider branding of ISIS and soaking in all that "solidarity" in the face of universal condemnation (much like young blacks and Hispanics joining gangs in the States)

Ultimately, what territory ISIS controls is the less important factor in dealing with Daesh. More than likely they'll start to crumble and bicker and collapse under its own weight. It's dealing with the people that ISIS have hijacked and brainwashed that will be hardest. I feel worst for the Tunisian government, who are in for a world of pain, sadly.