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Originally Posted by Rags123

First of all, ISIS began in Iraq in about 2006. First error was not insisting on allowing US troops to stay. Our President says he could not do that because he could not convince, as required, the Iraq government to agree. Many, on both sides of the aisle said it could have been done had we wanted.

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But he had already announced this earlier this year, and the real significance today was in the failure of Obama, in spite of the cost to the US in dollars and deaths, to persuade the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to allow one or more American bases to be kept in the country."


Iraq rejects US request to maintain bases after troop withdrawal | World news | theguardian.com

Secondly, our indifference to the situation in Syria allowed them to strengthen. This was tricky, and while a "what to do" would have been difficult in Syria for sure, we certainly made it clear we were not going to be any kind of presence there at all, they just expanded their growth.

NOW, because of those non actions, we surely have a problem. They are surely not the only reasons, but our not being in Iraq as they grew, and not being involved in Syria have compounded the problem.

I am sure the administration is doing a lot, and in fact does "have a plan", but from my perspective.......

1. Secure our borders, especially the southern one, where the illegals are becoming surges. We already have an unconfirmed report of crossings there by ISIS posing as Central Americans, and some recruits from non Arab countries. This should be done LOUDLY and quickly.

2. The bombings we have started seem to have some affect. Selective targets will work for awhile.

3. Hopefully, we have already started working on the financial part of this..ie.,., tracing their money and trying to cut off as much as we can.

We are late in this battle, but I think we need to secure our homeland...borders, immigration, etc first. Hopefully we can avoid any substantial troop involvement, as that seems like a loss for us.

You are the first one to actually post possible ideas about what might be done to stop this real threat. All are good ideas, too.