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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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If I was in charge the first thing I would do is assess the threat to the US. Answer: large, and only ot get bigger over time.
The next question I’d ask is … do I want to actually solve the problem or just talk and pretend to solve it like Obama is doing. More accurately, he is just punting and letting the next president deal with it … most likely after a severe 9/11 attack here at home.
So,
assuming we want to solve the problem YES, we need to send in ground troops. Sorry if that scares you. We can't win by playing total defense at home but I would certainly secure our borders and use all other means at our disposal ... cyber, psychological etc. But, when all is said and done, the infantry makes it real.
The right thing to do is a) accurately describe the enemy as Radical Islam b) a leader / President (currently not applicable) explains to the people what's at stake, c) mobilize for Desert Storm II and 4) change the Rules of Engagement to approximate what we did in WWII when faced with a fascist enemy. We need to destroy ISIS totally, and that means use of tactical nukes if need be to destroy their cities. We also need to make sure Iran does not end up as the hegemon in the Middle East ... and DSII would help with that as well.
Radical Islam uses terror to make us afraid (ie your comment about what ISIS would do to a US captive). Historically, we have to make them more afraid
while simultaneously exterminating them as we did the Nazis and Imperial Japanese.
The alternative to victory is to slowly watch the spread of Muhammad's writ and see your grandkids terrorized, and eventually in burhkas and using prayer rugs. Think about it ...
Oh, by the way, bring back the draft. Everyone needs to be in this, including you.