I'm not worried about some loosely organized "gang" thousands of miles away. More people probably get killed by birds a year than this group of idiots.
Probably true, for now. Eventually (just my prediction) they all band together. Some little muslim kid who isn't a terrorist...yet... will lose a parent or uncle ahsan to a wayward bomb or some other form of collateral damage and boom, no pun intended, a terrorist is created. I'm not saying you specifically but many here like to pretend that the muslims don't hate us. Sure there are millions of them that "mind their own business" but while they are doing so they hate us. It is in their blood, it is woven into the fiber of their being. It will not change, ever. There is no tolerance with them at all.
I really could care less if they hate us. As far as I'm concerned they can continue to kill each other for another 1,000 years and we stay out of the conversation. ISIS is a joke. We could literally wipe them off this planet with one button. And until we decide to do that everything else is a waste of money and lives.
we should only put joes on the ground unless we intend to let them kill the enemy. this horse crap of sending guys to be targets has to end.
To call them a joke is not smart. they are at this point small potatoes. however their appeal to fundamentalist Muslims is very strong. in fact to those people it is required to be a foot soldier for them. there is no easy answer.
Join the crazy chick in the "don't know shit about international geopolitics" line. We have flown 2,000 sorties against them. We are hitting them. We are doing a lot more covert shit against them. We are training and arming their enemies. I'll ask you the same question I've asked before. What exactly do you propose doing that we aren't already doing? Be specific.
It has never happened in a thousand years. They are all fighting each other now and that is what we need to promote. Their squabbles are not our fight. We only need to fight to protect our vital national interests. So let them hate us! If they don't do shit to threaten us, then who cares if they like us? Meanwhile we bash the shit out of those who are stupid enough to confront us.