Military So ISIS & the Middle East

"Do something different" is certainly not a strategy. I'll ask you what I asked Attilla the Hen . . . what exactly do you propose doing that we aren't already doing?

 

You'd think people would understand guerrilla wars after Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They are unwinnable in the classic sense. You fulfill your objectives and you leave. You don't hang around trying to get people who hate you to become good Jeffersonian democrats. We had no objectives in Iraq--never should have gone and should have left earlier. We have no objectives in Syria. Every side in the fight is anti-American. So we let them kill each other. We do have an objective not to let Iraq fall or Jordan, Turkey, or Israel for that matter. We can achieve that by airpower. We cannot go into Syria and make everybody sing Kumbaya. What we do is strangle them of supplies and arms, bomb the shit out of anything that looks like a military target, and let them get weak enough for one of the other local factions to take over. It ain't our fight to go in and try to bash guerrillas. It's useless game of Whack-A-Mole.

What do you propose doing that we aren't already doing? Nothing we do is going to change islamist ideals, muslims have to do that themselves. So we arm the ones that have the best ideals available and let them fight it out.

 

Actually the Japanese and Germans changed their own ideals. We just took away their ability to make war.