Military So ISIS & the Middle East

Hey, I understand the emotion, darlin'. This shit can make us angry. But job 1 is to distinguish who the enemy is and who he ain't. And no, we do not have the military resources or the money to carpet bomb a quarter of the planet. Not with nuclear weapons, nerve gas, or anything short of Captain Kirk using photon torpedoes. Moreover, it would be severely misplaced anger. Genocidal fantasies might address the problem, but would bankrupt us, create far worse problems, make us more enemies, weaken us, and make us surpass Hitler for atrocities.

Overreach like that is exactly why the Roman Empire fell and the British Empire fell. Likewise as much as this terror shit pisses us off, they have no capability to actually cause us our downfall. They CAN lure us into causing our own. Those two wars that your president started and couldn't finish almost bankrupted us and it was a huge Christmas present to bin Ladin, whose aim all along was to bankrupt us and bring create more enemies for us from the muslims that never much gave a shit until we went onto their turf and starting breaking things and killing people. There are a lot of rags that look at things exactly like you. Black and White, no shades of gray, us or them.

This will be a long fight, but targeting the actual terrorist perps, turning the non-islamist muslims to 21st century thinking, and using our economic clout. If we are smart, we can have our cake and eat it too.

 

So what do you offer as a practical solution other than what we are doing? We already hit them hard militarily wherever we can locate them and use economic clout to rob them of funding. WMD's are not easy to find, make, or deliver or it would have happened already. Carpet bombing the cities of a country will not prevent small groups of terrorists from surviving in the mountains and deserts. Best to focus on finding those hideouts and slamming them. It has worked to prevent any more 9/11 style incidents. These scattered shoot-em-ups piss us off but they don't even match the shoot-em-ups that our own nut jobs commit year after year. It's not something to panic about.

We may need new strategies to combat islamists that are living here with green cards or citizenship status. One may be to tighten up visas for Europeans who have always had easy access to America and institute more rigorous background checks. Of course they will do the same to us.

 

Did you learn nothing at all from the Iraq and Afghan wars? Are you learning nothing in Syria? What did all of that military action accomplish . . . JACK SHIT. It created more problems.

1. We are not at war with a religion, Ellie May. We are at war with islamist terrorists and we are already bombing the fuck out of militants and terrorists. Bombing the fuck out of beduin civilians accomplishes nothing but wasting our resources.
2. We cannot bomb our way into anything like a victory against guerrillas.
3. Even with ground troops we could not control Iraq. The Muslim world is too big to take it all on, especially since most of it doesn't give a shit about us or the terrorists. More waste.
4. Your solution is childish, naive, impractical, and utterly impossible.

Just so you know.

 

Thank you for the bimbo perspective.