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Originally Posted by Choppy12
This could be over in two weeks. Air alone is a joke. Go in with ground troops supported by air and wipe them out. Every time we do something we do not get the job done because of politics. We better wake up and put our full military force behind this and the politicians need to just get out of the way. This thing will last forever if we let the politicians run it. Two weeks that's all it would take. We need no one to help us either.
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Every retired military commander interviewed on any network has said that air strikes are used to support ground troops which are required to go door to door to root out these terrorists who hide in civilian neighborhoods and with children. Actually I cannot recall anyone saying that air strikes will do anything significant unless used to support ground troops. NBC interrupts programming with this breaking news of air strikes in an apparent attempt to make us think this will solve the ISIS problem? We should agree to send some ground troops only if our coalition partners commit to participating with significant ground troops. But if they participate, it should be a blitz similar to the surge which effectively ended the war. Otherwise this will drag on for years. Decisions are too political today and ergo ineffective on all levels.