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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama, for Christsake, begin immediately air campaign to eradicate ISIS.
CNN: Journalist James Foley beheaded by ISIS.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/world/meast/isis-james-foley/
Move ALL AVAILABLE ASSETS TO AREA TO COMPLETE THE JOB. A 4 to 6 week saturation bombing campaign should do a pretty good job.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Obama is smarter than that.
Good thing McCain isnt still doing selfies with ISIS
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SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)we should be able to take out ISIS without indiscriminately dropping bombs..
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)all or nearly all of them. These guys do not respond to anything more subtle than death.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Yeah...that will help.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)cheney's fraudulent 'cause' (to free IRAQI oil).
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Air campaigns don't do shit except temporary disruptions. So shove your"high and mighty" tone.
"Saturation bombing"...yeah it worked so well in Vietnam too.
You've no idea what you're talking about.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)We will have to deal with them sooner or later (when they have more advanced weaponry, greater numbers, better position - more territory and more hostages.
Iraqis fear defeat without more U.S. help
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/19/iraq-mosul-islamic-state-army-air-strikes/14286255/
(emphasis my own)
"...much of the fighting in Fallujah and the surrounding area is being conducted by Sunni tribes opposed to the Islamic State fighters, who also are Sunnis but more extreme in their views of Islam.
We should/can get GB and France involved in this and should hit up Gulf States for support - public andor financial (or we'll just let 'em go..whose next??)
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)the motherfucker
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)VanGoghRocks
(621 posts)civil war against Assad, now did we? (Taking a break from Mike Brown-Ferguson stuff for just a moment.)
Here's a novel concept: Don't take sides in other countries' civil wars.
You'd think Vietnam would have taught us. But, no. 2-3 milllion dead Southeast Asians (and 56,000+ dead Americans) didn't teach us a goddamn thing.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)VanGoghRocks
(621 posts)just say ISIS\ISIL was Turkey's proxy and Turkey is our NATO ally. Oh yeah, and a lot of that aid to 'moderate opponents' of Assad wound up under the control of ISIS\ISIL. But, technically, you're right. They weren't "our" proxy.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)sent from heaven compared to these ISIS devils.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Look how far we've come.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)N/T
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Consider this incident:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/dearborn-man-charged-with-murder-torture-in-sisters-slaying/27181358
Would anyone sane suggest that we "saturation bomb" Dearborn, MI in response?
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)The "scary brown people" are acting up again, so lets bomb them all!!!!
Owl
(3,641 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)damage as they can. THey are quite serious. This is not Cheney's fake threats to start his war to free IRaqi oil.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Because you were told by a "source which wishes to remain anonymous" from the Pentagon or the White House?
VanGoghRocks
(621 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Maybe you some have stock in air ordinance.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)and Syria falls under the category of "some areas to avoid".
procon
(15,805 posts)You know, all those lovely oil rich countries that have far more skin in the game. Lets see the ME stand up their own coalition army to protect their territories and safeguard their own assets before we consider wasting yet another generation of American lives and treasure beating another country's bloody wardrum.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)whatevs
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Dumb.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)How can we afford to take action? Huh?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)There are many more proximate nations with a bigger stake in the outcome. Let them take a crack or two at it before we re-insert ourselves into that morass.
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