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Excellent post, Ivan, though I take issue with this bit:

I don't believe it is possible to "intelligent" our way out of this, because the 'other side' is driven by faith rather than judgement. I think we can develop more robust coping-mechanisms to contain the problem, but the Islamist mind-set does not avail itself to intellectual persuasion. Indeed, independence of thought is highly-discouraged in radical Islamist circles, because the only truth is Allah's truth, and anything else is heresy.

As you have said yourself, the idealogical gap is unbreachable, hence we can never reach an accommodation/understanding with an entity like ISIS, no matter what intellect we bring to the argument. The perspectives of the West and Radical Islam are a clash-of-worlds that can never be reconciled, and whatever measures we take to mitigate the problem, we seem destined to be containing this as best we can, for many years (and probably decades) to come.