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I read your prior comments but lets cut to the chase. In the end-if nobody else will act, it will fall on the US yet again-or nothing will get done and a terror state will be established in the heard of the ME.
You appear resigned to that-but thats not good enough for me. If Americans supported strikes based on what ISIS has done to this point, they will support it when they see how much worse things become as ISIS expands. It would also completely undermine the war on terror-sending the message that the US wont act, wont honor its obligations, and will run after a few beheadings. Thats not good enough.
This is the song that never ends-fight evil or let it consume everyone.
I'm resigned to the US and its allies, like Canada, not fighting other country's battles if they're not willing to fight them as well themselves. Let's see Saudi Arabian boots on the ground. Let's see Iraqi boots on the ground, and not running shoes. Let's see Turkish boots on the ground, and not just on their side of the Turkish border watching a slaughter. These are the large countries in the direct vicinity that need to step up and put their own men and women in the line of fire before US and allied troops hit the ground. If these countries are okay with ISIS taking over, let them live with the fallout.
ISIS will never come to North America as a force, only as lone bad actors and those lone bad actors will come here whether or not the US and their allies enter into a ground war against ISIS.