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Originally Posted by Guest
What would you do IF you were in charge?
Would you send 20,000 - 30,000 ground troops to Syria to take on ISIS forces and recapture some of the captured cities? How many US troops would be captured and beheaded on camera would you be willing to accept? How many US lives would you be willing to lose to recapture Iraq or Syria cities?
We know that the US trained Iraqui forces are not worth a thing. They throw down their US supplied weapons and run. Training and arming them is a waste of money.
Don't say a residual US force would have stopped ISIS. That is looking backward. What do we do - looking forward?
Americans, as a whole, are not willing to waste more American soldiers lives or Billions more dollars throwing them down that mid-east rathole.
Concentrate on national security of antiterrorist activities of all kinds.
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First, and I realize this is looking in the rear view mirror a bit, but I would not have totally ignored this situation for so long, would not have drawn a redline I did not intend to enforce, and would not have allowed Russia to control the use of gas warfare, WHICH HAS RETURNED.
We now have very little choice except to get involved. We use our drones sparingly in Syria.....we are arming the wrong tribes...ie, we favor the Shia which is basically Iran and ignore the other tribes who from historical perspective will actually fight.
Please read how we choose to arm....only Iran backed tribes. What are we creating here ?