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Will Japan go to war with ISIS

Not unless they change their constitution.


Besides, it would be moronic if they did.

Go to war because a bunch of lunatics killed two of their countrymen who should have known better then to be there?

These two idiots partially brought it on themselves by being non-Muslims and voluntarily going to that part of the world at this time. You go there right now (assuming you are western/east Asian) you are just asking to be killed by some lunatic terrorist.
If you deliberately put your head in the lions mouth, it is at least partially your fault if it bites it off.
 
The estimates that I first saw were far smaller than that, I assume that ISIS must have grown significantly over the course of last year. Anyhow, it's not like they had 30,000 troops all in one place out in the open, and they just all moved in as one contiguous force. They were spread out over large portions of two different countries.

When I first started seeing news reports about ISIS, the headlines were like "400 ISIS fighters take over XXX". Never did I see any report about thousands of ISIS amassed all in one spot. Those people ain't that stupid. Many of the ISIS units were nothing but a half dozen or so guys in a Mad Max style pickup truck accompanied by a four more fighters in a Toyota Corolla. It really doesn't take to many fighters to take over a "village" of 19 people, 24 sheep, and four camels.

You don't make the territorial gains they've made, with 400 guys.

Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
No, it was millions, and the USA just hides our crimes and our atrocities from the public view.

In Iraq alone it had a million person army and that is not counting its civilian population, and the illegal USA invasion simply murdered anyone in their sites and displaced virtually every citizen.

In Afghanistan it was no different.


It is morally bankrupt because we are the aggressors and we are the invaders.

Other people in this world are just doing their own self defense against the violent hostilities of our American brutality and wars.



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So that is why.

Thank you for explaining that.



You are out of touch with reality Mr JP Cusick.

The ISIS group wants to murder every American so our only choice is to kill all of them first. :roll:
 
Wrong. ISIS took Japanese hostages because the Japanese PM pledged $200 million to help support countries fighting against ISIS (the exact same ransom amount ISIS is demanding that the hostages be freed) and that made them targets. There is a reason why terrorists attack others when they are provoked.

I stand corrected. You are right in this case.
 
Sounds like a job for Samurai warriors. They would show ISIS how to properly conduct a beheading.
 
I am born and raised here in Maryland USA, and my parents and grandparents were all Americans.

My father's parents immigrated from Ireland in the late 1800's but my mother side has ancestors going back to the Revolutionary War.

And I have only ever spoken English, but it was largely slang and southern style English which with lots of effort I have cleaned up my language but I can not totally refine.

It is sad to me that so many of my fellow Americans have the view that I must join them in their racist and religious bigotries or else I am being un-American, and so many view that I need to be a warmonger as they are or else I am again being un-American, and I am expected to toot the same lies about our history or else I am being un-American.

Or as you say I am being anti-American because my views of truth and justice are seen as being anti-American too.

I honestly see myself as pro-USA when I stand against the warmongering, and pro-USA when I stand against the lies and the bigotries.

I am a atheist so you are barking up the wrong tree there. I am not a Republican/conservative/libertarian/rightwinger/Democrat/liberal leftwinger /leftist/rightist etc. I dont promote war (it should be avoided and a last resort). In other words none of what you mentioned would describe my position. I am sure that you are used to the par for course them and us arguments but that isnt where I came from.

Your re-history is just too radical and being that radical it is un-American. And most of your posts sound very much like google translator. And they (your posts) seem to mimic (very closely) known propaganda campaigns by countries that hate America. Specifically you are parroting lies from very leftist groups.

But at any rate ISIS doesnt at all (by their own words) sound like they just want to be left alone. ISIS isnt passive. SO lets just for the sake of argument say that America behaves and is what you are asserting. So what? Does it make you feel better thinking that America is bad? Do you think that ISIS will just go away and leave big old bad USA alone because you think that America sucks? It seems like your argument is that America sucks, and then it pretty much stops right there.
 
They are Them and we are Us. In my book, Us is always more important than Them.
The thing is that theirs is not any competition, as they are only defending their homeland from outsider invaders.

It is a one-sided war, because it is us against them and they are just defending, as we are the violent aggressors and they are defending their own homes.

Add into that, that they respond only to superior force and have no intention of stopping their attacks regardless of any diplomacy/etc we may attempt, and that is plenty enough reason for me to prefer them all dead.
We the USA are the ones who are attacking THEM and we have been doing our attacking for over 14 years and continuing.

The only terms for peace that we give is to totally surrender their own homeland to infidel invaders.

And on top of that we demand that all of their women must take off their clothing so then they will be liberated as are the American females.

Even here you want them all dead, so to fight back by any means is the only defense available to THEM.



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The ISIS group wants to murder every American so our only choice is to kill all of them first. :roll:
They only want to kill those Americans who are trying to take over their homeland.

They are not attacking the USA as they are just defending their own homeland from the violent invaders.

The fact that Americans only want to "kill them all" means that we are the monsters.
 
It is certain that our own USA is pressuring Japan to war against ISIL and hopefully Japan will resist that pressure.

The idea that beheading is something terrible seems so ridiculous to me.

Our USA invades Muslim Countries based on our lies and we kill millions of people and displace millions of innocent citizens so what - is our kind of mass murder superior to a few people getting their heads cut off? I say not.

Is our Drone bombs which blow up the people including the killing of bystanders some how a superior form of execution? certainly it is NOT.

Cutting off a person's head is fairly quick and it is done, so are they expected to use a lethal injection instead?

And surely there is no doubt that the USA pressured Japan to NOT pay the ransom money so their blood is on our hands too.


What lies ?

Are you referring to the old left wing talking points about Bush lying about WMDs ?

Because that's been thoroughly debunked.

As far as not paying ransom, that is a good policy.
 
400 guys per location, not 30,000 all amassed in one spot.

Anyhow, ISIS pretty much just walked in to most places. The Iraqi military and the locals often put up no fight at all.

It took more than 400 troops to run the Iraqi army out of those areas.
 
It took more than 400 troops to run the Iraqi army out of those areas.

That's not what I read. I many cases, the Iraqi army never even fought, they just fled. One report was about a few hundred ISIS running off thousands of Iraqi troops.

How did 800 ISIS fighters rout 2 Iraqi divisions? | Military Times | militarytimes.com

As far as the total number of fighters they have, that's very debateable. It's not like a country where we have official numbers. And some people may seem to be ISIS fighters one day, and local farmers the next day.

ISIS Has 9,000
 
That's not what I read. I many cases, the Iraqi army never even fought, they just fled. One report was about a few hundred ISIS running off thousands of Iraqi troops.

How did 800 ISIS fighters rout 2 Iraqi divisions? | Military Times | militarytimes.com

As far as the total number of fighters they have, that's very debateable. It's not like a country where we have official numbers. And some people may seem to be ISIS fighters one day, and local farmers the next day.

ISIS Has 9,000

Iraqi troops cut and ran when Amerika came to town too.
 
That's not what I read. I many cases, the Iraqi army never even fought, they just fled. One report was about a few hundred ISIS running off thousands of Iraqi troops.

How did 800 ISIS fighters rout 2 Iraqi divisions? | Military Times | militarytimes.com

As far as the total number of fighters they have, that's very debateable. It's not like a country where we have official numbers. And some people may seem to be ISIS fighters one day, and local farmers the next day.

ISIS Has 9,000
This is because ISIL is just members of the local population, as it is just people defending their own homeland against the violent invaders of the USA.

We are not attacking a real Country as we are just murdering the local citizens.

And the American propped up Iraqi Army had no reason to fight and kill their own people as the Americans wanted.
 
Japan has a sizable, competent and well equipped Defense Force partially due to perceived Chinese aggression.

I don't blame them.

They're justifiably scared about a Chinese teddy roosevelt with a "big stick" policy.
 
What lies ?

Are you referring to the old left wing talking points about Bush lying about WMDs ?

Because that's been thoroughly debunked.
The Bush admin lies about the WMD certainly was one of the lies - when there was no such thing.

There was also the lie that Saddam Husein helped with the 9/11 attack - which he did not.

That Iraq posed as a threat to the USA - another lie.

The lie that the Geneva Convention does not protect the prisoners - so our torture of human beings was a barbaric lie.

And there really are lots more, link = Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war - CNN.com

As far as not paying ransom, that is a good policy.
So much for any true concern about our spies getting their heads cut off.

Why would we pay ransom when we can get some new fool to take their place. ~ Sarcasm.

It might be different if you were the one being held for ransom, or if you had any human feelings for the one getting executed - but no.

And it is noteworthy that their side ask for a ransom out of a long traditional respect during warfare, while our side will not ask for ransom as our side is completely unreasonable (unable to be reasoned with).
 
That would be freekin' awesome. Bring back the Kamikazes, suicide planes blowing up suicide bombers.

That was my first thought too, but I hope Japan knows they don't have to have the pilots inside the planes anymore.
 
Given past experience, if Japan does go to war, ISIL will be the last to know.
 
The Bush admin lies about the WMD certainly was one of the lies - when there was no such thing.

There was also the lie that Saddam Husein helped with the 9/11 attack - which he did not.

That Iraq posed as a threat to the USA - another lie.

The lie that the Geneva Convention does not protect the prisoners - so our torture of human beings was a barbaric lie.

And there really are lots more, link = Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war - CNN.com


So much for any true concern about our spies getting their heads cut off.

Why would we pay ransom when we can get some new fool to take their place. ~ Sarcasm.

It might be different if you were the one being held for ransom, or if you had any human feelings for the one getting executed - but no.

And it is noteworthy that their side ask for a ransom out of a long traditional respect during warfare, while our side will not ask for ransom as our side is completely unreasonable (unable to be reasoned with).

I'm in the camp that Saddam violated the cease fire agreement which left him subject to renewed hostilities, but as for WMD:

New York Times Reports WMD Found in Iraq - US News
 
I'm in the camp that Saddam violated the cease fire agreement which left him subject to renewed hostilities, but as for WMD:

New York Times Reports WMD Found in Iraq - US News
The thing is that even if Iraq had any such weapons then it would not justify the invasion of Iraq, and the USA has a long vivid history of covering up our past lies with a new set of lies which is what that link describes, so the truth is trampled under no matter what anyone believes, because the Bush warmongers were going to war against Saddam Husein no matter what.

As to Saddam violating the cease-fire then yes I know that Iraq did that but it was a sucker punch against the warmongers to draw them out.

The so called cease fire was an idiotic arrangement created by the USA which allowed for continual harassment of Iraq and yes Saddam violated it and he did it as a tactic against our belligerence.

Still Iraq shooting at our enemy aircraft over their territory was not a justification for the USA to invade Iraq.
 
The thing is that even if Iraq had any such weapons then it would not justify the invasion of Iraq, and the USA has a long vivid history of covering up our past lies with a new set of lies which is what that link describes, so the truth is trampled under no matter what anyone believes, because the Bush warmongers were going to war against Saddam Husein no matter what.

As to Saddam violating the cease-fire then yes I know that Iraq did that but it was a sucker punch against the warmongers to draw them out.

The so called cease fire was an idiotic arrangement created by the USA which allowed for continual harassment of Iraq and yes Saddam violated it and he did it as a tactic against our belligerence.

Still Iraq shooting at our enemy aircraft over their territory was not a justification for the USA to invade Iraq.
That took us off the thread topic.

The USA is still trying to play our sucker games in the Ukraine and against Russia while Russia really does have their own weapons of mass destruction which can kill every American in less than half an hour, so our side really needs to grow up and to grow up fast.
 
The thing is that even if Iraq had any such weapons then it would not justify the invasion of Iraq, and the USA has a long vivid history of covering up our past lies with a new set of lies which is what that link describes, so the truth is trampled under no matter what anyone believes, because the Bush warmongers were going to war against Saddam Husein no matter what.

As to Saddam violating the cease-fire then yes I know that Iraq did that but it was a sucker punch against the warmongers to draw them out.

The so called cease fire was an idiotic arrangement created by the USA which allowed for continual harassment of Iraq and yes Saddam violated it and he did it as a tactic against our belligerence.

Still Iraq shooting at our enemy aircraft over their territory was not a justification for the USA to invade Iraq.

Fine, your opinion.
 
That took us off the thread topic.

The USA is still trying to play our sucker games in the Ukraine and against Russia while Russia really does have their own weapons of mass destruction which can kill every American in less than half an hour, so our side really needs to grow up and to grow up fast.
Wow - I am still off topic, as I got this one confused with another thread.

Topic here = "Will Japan go to war with ISIS"
 
That's not what I read. I many cases, the Iraqi army never even fought, they just fled. One report was about a few hundred ISIS running off thousands of Iraqi troops.

How did 800 ISIS fighters rout 2 Iraqi divisions? | Military Times | militarytimes.com

As far as the total number of fighters they have, that's very debateable. It's not like a country where we have official numbers. And some people may seem to be ISIS fighters one day, and local farmers the next day.

ISIS Has 9,000

Regardless of what the numbers are, ISIS moved in a group of more than a few people. Even 800 troops makes a foot print that can be easily targeted.
 
Regardless of what the numbers are, ISIS moved in a group of more than a few people. Even 800 troops makes a foot print that can be easily targeted.


The reason they stopped moving in large numbers, is because we started bombing them, and they adapted.

My point is that this would have happened regardless of the exact day we first started bombing them.

The only way we would have been able to kill the majority of them is if we could have done it virtually instantly, before they had time to disperse. We would have had to been able to plan and practice for a "shock and awe" type attack, but the problem with that was shock and awe was on fixed targets, mostly buildings, however ISIS was never a fixed target.

But what do I know, I'm a printer, not a military strategist?
 
The reason they stopped moving in large numbers, is because we started bombing them, and they adapted.

My point is that this would have happened regardless of the exact day we first started bombing them.

The only way we would have been able to kill the majority of them is if we could have done it virtually instantly, before they had time to disperse. We would have had to been able to plan and practice for a "shock and awe" type attack, but the problem with that was shock and awe was on fixed targets, mostly buildings, however ISIS was never a fixed target.

But what do I know, I'm a printer, not a military strategist?

Planning and practicing for a swift, violent and deadly attack is SOP. American forces train for that literally everyday. While ISIS was in the open, we could have used our satellites to find them, our air supremacy to fix them and the Iraqi Army to envelope and destroy them. It would have been one of the most basic operations there is.
 
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