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Nearly everyone is saying that the air campaign against ISIS is not working and America needs to take the lead and send in ground troops.
Sounds good in theory and they are likely going to send in ground troops once Bagdad Airport is overtaken by ISIS in a few weeks. But it is easy to say we should send in ground troops when it is someone else doing the fighting. How about if it was your son or your brother? Or maybe you?
You need to add a second NO option, along the lines of "No, I wouldn't fight myself nor would I send anyone to fight to enforce map lines invented by British cartographers in 1919, because doing so is retarded."
I voted no, only because my son has already done three tours in the in combat, as has have his father and his grandfather before him. Someone else's turn.
My question is if they begin hitting us here in the US would you then be willing to do what it takes to destroy them there or will you simply whine that the government is not doing enough?
The question that should be asked is to ask the parents who lost children fighting in the Iraq/Afghanistan, Vietnam & Korea wars, if their sacrifice was worth it in the end.
Or.. pretend you can go back in time, knowing what we now know and ask people if they would send their sons or daughters to fight in any of those wars.
I suppose the people who say yes, would also be willing to send their children to fight isis.
The question that should be asked is to ask the parents who lost children fighting in the Iraq/Afghanistan, Vietnam & Korea wars, if their sacrifice was worth it in the end.
Or.. pretend you can go back in time, knowing what we now know and ask people if they would send their sons or daughters to fight in any of those wars.
I suppose the people who say yes, would also be willing to send their children to fight isis.
Given that every war since WW II is essentially about preserving some sort of economic stability and also maintaining borders drawn by people nowhere in any way associated with the countries they decided the borders for....I think most people would struggle with agreeing on dying for such banal and meaningless causes.
The question that should be asked is to ask the parents who lost children fighting in the Iraq/Afghanistan, Vietnam & Korea wars, if their sacrifice was worth it in the end.
Or.. pretend you can go back in time, knowing what we now know and ask people if they would send their sons or daughters to fight in any of those wars.
I suppose the people who say yes, would also be willing to send their children to fight isis.
You seem to think people send their sons and daughters off to join the military, sorry that is not how it works they Joined the military and as such do as they are told.
No I would not. The rest of the world needs to step up and start shouldering their share of the burden. If ISIS attacked the USA and they needed experienced combat troops I would take my son's place. I may be 51, but I can still hold my own with a rifle or side arm, I'm in great shape and I have no desire to see my son's life wasted in the Middle east due to weak kneed civilian leadership who are afraid to let our troops take the gloves off in a fight.
If we go to war it should be an all or nothing endeavor, anything less just wastes the lives of our soldiers. Sorry but as far as I am concerned 10,000 gallons of foreign blood can not equal 1 drop of my son's blood or any other American soldier's blood.
If the world wants ISIS stopped then the world needs to step up to the plate and send soldiers to fight. We are not the world's police force.
As a father, if my son, as an adult, decides on his own to stand up and be counted, then I will hug him, pray for him, hold my breath until he returns.
I will not deny him the right to make the decisions a man makes. Certainly I will not deny him the right to decide on something that serious, considering I made that decisison to stand up myself.
but thanks for asking a question that makes me want to spit some beachnut in your eyeball.
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Well, I am a military veteran and have been to the sand box both as a servicemember and as a contractor. I have two out of three of my sons in the Navy (one a Submariner and another in Special Forces). I answered yes. If we could get away with keeping to ourselves (and other nations would leave us be), then I would be all for that. But - for any number of good/bad reasons - we are part of the world. The world's problems are everyone's problems (again, whether for good or bad - it is what it is). It shouldn't be USA's job alone to do this, but the whole world as one. They (ISIS) will not be content to keep to themselves (and they have made that clear), so now is the time to engage them - not when they have established their Caliphate. Preferably, the Jordanians, Saudi's, and Turks will do this themselves as they have far more to lose than anyone else if ISIS succeeds. But, if they don't have the balls, then the rest of the world (including the Russians & Chinese) need to end their venture of insanity.
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