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I don't totally agree with that. Europe started two world wars in the 20th century. And the Bosnia conflict was not all that long ago. And the present uprising of fanatical islam is relatively recent.
the US has no role in a Middle Eastern holy war.
They should and hopefully they will. However at this point they cannot get it done without our help. At this pong we are the only force preventing a holocaust.
I ultimately support whatever it takes to end the threat that will eventually end up on our shores as it did on 9/11/01.
what if it takes significantly higher taxes?
You will just have to keep an air sickness bad handy for now. In the long run I believe Assad is going down. The uprising had a reason.
and now he's some sick version of an ally. i will not support helping him in any way. **** that asshole.
How do you know that. Do you have a military background?
i can see that Vietnamization didn't work in Vietnam or Iraq, and it's not working in Afghanistan. it won't work in Syria.
Perhaps, however it is not quite that simple. Most terrorism including with ISIS is financed by oil profits. That is why the present strategy might work in Syria as we are bombing their portable refineries...of which they are making profits of 2 million dollars a day on the black market. Cull their operating funds and you limit their capabilities. Part of the problem longterm is our addiction to Mideast oil. If the environmentalists in the US would get off our backs...the US could completely wean itself from Mideast oil and stop financing terrorism.
we need to work towards replacing oil as a transportation fuel. this would actually have a positive effect, as oil is fungible, and the terrorist groups use oil as a source of funds.