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Originally Posted by blueash
If we don't go in then evil anti-American people will take control and one nation after another will fall to their ruthless armies and crush their freedom loving population. We are all old enough to remember that line from Vietnam where we propped up one incompetent government after another and sacrificed about 60,000 soldiers. Then we left and now Vietnam is a vibrant economy and there was certainly no domino effect that negatively impacted our national security nor interests. We have backed out of conflicts with a cost of both lives and treasure (see Beirut 1984 ). We need not go back in to somehow justify the sacrifices we sadly have already made. Is showing how tough we can be in imposing our will against Muslims going to be the test for succeeding in politics like being anti-Communist was in the '50s?
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The enemy we face today is far different then who we faced in the past. We were on the brink in Vietnam of making the North throw in the towel had we just continued to bomb them just a bit longer. ISIS is different as there is little we can do to ware them down. There is no point in at which they say, I'm tired of the fight, I want to stop. They are barbaric in their tactics, they have no compassion for their enemy, and they believe, really believe, that what they are doing is God's will. If they die in this battle they will be rewarded. We are in a real war and should we think otherwise we will be sorry. We are about to enter a holy war. There is no way to appease ISIS except if your dead.