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What do you propose to be the solution?
Clear, hold, build.
Substance over BS symbolic airstrikes. Commit to victory instead of appeasing evil for votes.
What does this mean? Troops on the ground in direct conflict with ISIS? Bombing unconditionally? A combination?
So yes. It means sending troops to actively fight ISIS? Is this correct?What it means is sending a force to clear out ISIS, followed by leaving a small force to hold and rebuild the nation. You can't win a war by airstrikes alone. Obama was drug kicking and screaming into the conflict, but poking them with a stick while not doing anything to substantively to win is the worst thing one could do. Hopefully thats not too hard for you to understand.
What it means is sending a force to clear out ISIS, followed by leaving a small force to hold and rebuild the nation. You can't win a war by airstrikes alone. Obama was drug kicking and screaming into the conflict, but poking them with a stick while not doing anything to substantively to win is the worst thing one could do. Hopefully thats not too hard for you to understand.
So yes. It means sending troops to actively fight ISIS? Is this correct?
World View: American-led air attacks are failing. Jihadis are close to taking Kobani, in Syria – and in Iraq western Baghdad is now under serious threat
America's plans to fight Islamic State are in ruins as the militant group's fighters come close to capturing Kobani and have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.
The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic State (also known as Isis) on 8 August in Iraq and 23 September in Syria have not worked. President Obama's plan to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State has not even begun to achieve success. In both Syria and Iraq, Isis is expanding its control rather than contracting.
Cont... War against Isis: US strategy in tatters as militants march on - Comment - Voices - The Independent
The fact is we have no strategy...Obama even said so......He is afraid to offend radical Islam.
I have a suggestion. There is already a capable military force, on the ground, with YEARS of experience fighting this organization that we could cooperate with to finish the ISIS threat; Assad and the Syrian Military. Also, since it is still Syria, then Assad could be responsible for residual force to secure the area. His family has a history of taking care of business...
Would you both be okay with this?
I have a suggestion. There is already a capable military force, on the ground, with YEARS of experience fighting this organization that we could cooperate with to finish the ISIS threat; Assad and the Syrian Military. Also, since it is still Syria, then Assad could be responsible for residual force to secure the area. His family has a history of taking care of business...
Would you both be okay with this?
The fact is we have no strategy...Obama even said so......He is afraid to offend radical Islam.
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He's been droning the **** out of these people for six years; now he's "afraid to offend" them. You guys believe some really weird stuff, man.
My support lies behind this option: We actively arm the Kurds, we continue arming the Iraqi military, we stop our idiotic strategy of not recognizing Assad, and stop backing the "moderate" FSA.
Ok, and we are doing that-what if its not enough, what then?
My support lies behind this option: We actively arm the Kurds, we continue arming the Iraqi military, we stop our idiotic strategy of not recognizing Assad, and stop backing the "moderate" FSA.
I dont disagree about the SAA, but they have demonstrated they are ineffective, and they are restricted to Syria. How many years do you think they need before they can even expel or kill ISIS even in western Syria?
I'd be fine with them trying, but the outcome of years of war suggests they aren't up to it. And then there's what to do about ISIS in Iraq.
What do you propose to be the solution?
The solution is to stop fiddle ****ing around and inflict massive casualties upon the enemy. I know it sounds crazy, but bombing empty buildings, in the middle of the night, isn't going to accomplish anything.
My support lies behind this option: We actively arm the Kurds, we continue arming the Iraqi military, we stop our idiotic strategy of not recognizing Assad, and stop backing the "moderate" FSA.
The solution is to stop fiddle ****ing around and inflict massive casualties upon the enemy. I know it sounds crazy, but bombing empty buildings, in the middle of the night, isn't going to accomplish anything.
We cannot afford the cost to refight the Iraq War.
President Obama and the Dems have already slashed the Military Budget, to only turn around and spend the money on social program largess and Racial Pandering.
We cannot afford to continue the AirWar against ISIS, much less field a much more expensive ground war.
If we need to go onto a ground level military confrontation against ISIS, it must be done by greatly increasing the Military Budgets beyond the spending levels of the Dubya Iraq War, because ISIS is a much tougher opponent than Saddam Husein's forces ever were.
We are already spending at huge deficit levels, on Obama Social and Racial Largess, despite the cuts in the military budget. The deficit and huge nation debt increases have force the U.S.A to do round after round of Quantitative Easing, devaluing our currency at alarming rates.
If we fund the ISIS conflict at a level which would actually lead to victory, it would much, more more red ink and printing of dollars, devaluing the currency even further...
OR....
OR!... we could drastically cut off all of the new social program and racial pandering spending, to make room in a deficit, but at least not currency suicidal national budget.
So, What Programs to we cut first!
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Greetings, TDS. :2wave:
Totally agree! Assad is a college-educated man who wants to bring his country into the 21st century, fighting those savages who want to go back to the dark ages. He may be a bastard, but his people like him, and he is supporting and aiding the Kurds - the same brave Kurds who successfully rescued those villagers, including women and children, BTW, that were stranded on the mountain without food and water while ISIS waited to kill them! Also, it has been proven by inspectors from the UN that Assad was not behind the Sarin gas attacks on the Syrian people, but rather it was the rebels that want to topple his government - rebels we are apparently supporting! What's going on here? :thumbdown:
No we arent. We dont recognize the Syrian government, we are not arming the Kurds, and we continue to back the "moderates FSA"....
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