Hamster Buddha
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Russia's planes to Iraq have helped the Iraqis. They are slow moving and designed to take on ground troops. Already they have been used and are hurting ISIS. Then there is the Air Strikes by us.
Already the one main branch of the Syrian Rebels and with the most fighters 25k. (alleged and greatly reduced) Has now made an Alliance with ISIS. Yet this is who BO wants to give weapons too.
Also in this Coalition BO has given arms to Lebanon. Hellfire Missiles.....this to, is a major mistake. Now Hezbollah will use hellfire missiles on Israel. Not to mention Iran will get one.....so that it can be reversed engineered. Big time mistake by BO and his Team.
I can understanding wanting a coalition. But not giving to a government that arms terrorists.
If there is ever to be some semblance of peace in the ME, I feel like there needs to be some sort of paradigm shift on our part. Some reshuffling of the cards to get things going back in the direction it needs to go. If it means making deals with the devil (or devils in this case as it were) then so be it. It's just...
*Thinks for a moment longer, then decides Glassing is still the best idea*.
Glassing the entire ME has NEVER been an option! Defeating the Islamic State, is not truly desired, or possible. President Assad allowed a certain amount of Western culture and was quite tolerant of Christians. Just still waiting for rational policy in the ME.
Assad isn't a good guy, let's not mistake this. And all were doing by supporting him, rather directly or indirectly, is just setting up another Shah or Mubarak that will come back to bite us in 10 or 20 years. I'm telling you, Glass it all and be done with it. Aside from that, would be opening up the middle east to colonization, after all, it's not like there was a whole lot of terrorism around when the UK was running things. Or even the Ottomans going back that far.