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Training Syrians or any ME'ers (besides Kurds) is not a serious way to fight ISIS. I listened to Obama's speech on the fight against ISIS (he keeps calling it ISIL) and I was ready to puke. He emphasized the number of "innocent civilians." We cannot fight a serious war in a surgical manner. War by its nature is bloody.
I also think if "innocent civilians" are killed or their lives disrupted maybe they won't be so hospitable to ISIS,and make life dangerous for them. After all WW II didn't stop until Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed their respective populations that war could be inconvenient for them. I think we have to get out of a habit we started with Vietnam and start focusing on winning, not being loved.
Training Syrians or any ME'ers (besides Kurds) is not a serious way to fight ISIS. I listened to Obama's speech on the fight against ISIS (he keeps calling it ISIL) and I was ready to puke. He emphasized the number of "innocent civilians." We cannot fight a serious war in a surgical manner. War by its nature is bloody.
I also think if "innocent civilians" are killed or their lives disrupted maybe they won't be so hospitable to ISIS,and make life dangerous for them. After all WW II didn't stop until Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed their respective populations that war could be inconvenient for them. I think we have to get out of a habit we started with Vietnam and start focusing on winning, not being loved.
America can't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag,as proven by the fact we have never won a modern war without using nukes! I believe it's because we can't win fighting someone else's war in their country,not our own.
America can't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag,as proven by the fact we have never won a modern war without using nukes! I believe it's because we can't win fighting someone else's war in their country,not our own.
Not just America.... Every other country as well....
How many thousands of Iraqis did we train, equip, and pay? The vast majority of them turned tail and ran when ISIS came. This whole ISIS affair is none of our concern. Let the nations/people in the area deal with it.
How many thousands of Iraqis did we train, equip, and pay? The vast majority of them turned tail and ran when ISIS came. This whole ISIS affair is none of our concern. Let the nations/people in the area deal with it.
None of our concern,are you sure of that?
Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West?
This BBC article (see link above for full article) makes for interesting reading - it investigates whether the United States is behind the creation of the Islamic State group (formerly known as Isis, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and Hillary Rodham Clinton admitted it in her book Hard Choices.
The US, IS and the conspiracy theory sweeping Lebanon
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