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That is indeed the West's biggest fail. With rare exceptions, we tend to suck at nation building and "exporting democracy".
Because "nation building and exporting democracy" should never be something America does. The vision of the founders was that America would be a shining example to the rest of the world as to how a nation can prosper through free markets and exist peacefully by respecting freedom and liberty and acknowledging that our blessings are from our Creator.
I don't think that the ME will openly accept the US as an invading force in Syria or Iraq, they have seen this movie before. This needs to be led by ME countries which based on their track record is highly doubtful. This is not ending quickly and will most definitely be an election issue in 2016, the American people made their wishes known in 2008 & 2012, if someone wants to run on putting American soldiers back into those countries let them state that clearly.
Enough with the euphemism "boots on the ground" these are flesh and blood Americans that some of these politicians plan to send to these countries, not just boots.
I don't think that the ME will openly accept the US as an invading force in Syria or Iraq, they have seen this movie before. This needs to be led by ME countries which based on their track record is highly doubtful. This is not ending quickly and will most definitely be an election issue in 2016, the American people made their wishes known in 2008 & 2012, if someone wants to run on putting American soldiers back into those countries let them state that clearly.
Odd, It seems to me that is what they voted for in 2008 and 12.
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Enough with the euphemism "boots on the ground" these are flesh and blood Americans that some of these politicians plan to send to these countries, not just boots.
I am not a military expert, but There’s also the fact that many of the operations that fall outside of the scope of “boots on the ground†actually do require a military presence on the ground to be successful. Airstrikes, the preferred method of taking military action without using ground forces, still require someone on the ground to help determine targets, unless pilots are able to see the target themselves from the air, like in the case of ISIS convoys and artillery. If the U.S. wants to go more granular, say targeting a building where ISIS leaders are meeting, then that ideally will include both intelligence from electronic interceptions as well as confirmation from humans on the ground.
Thank you.
Air strikes are a cop out and anyone buying the air strikes nonsense is a fool. Effective air strikes require boots on the ground. Air war has always historically meant to be cover fire for ground troops or for softening up territory for ground troops to take, hold and defend.
We shouldn't be putting boots on any ground over there and our air operations should cease immediately.
Air strikes are a cop out and anyone buying the air strikes nonsense is a fool. Effective air strikes require boots on the ground. Air war has always historically meant to be cover fire for ground troops or for softening up territory for ground troops to take, hold and defend.
We shouldn't be putting boots on any ground over there and our air operations should cease immediately.
Air strikes alone will never win a war, we have been at this for over a year and ISIS still survives. If air strikes were that effective we would have won Vietnam 10 times over. The Kurds coupled with air strikes have worked, air strikes alone have not.
Since WWII other than possibly Kuwait when has "boots on the ground" worked out for us as a nation?
We're much better at waging "secret wars."
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