That's refreshingly honest, the subsequent rhetoric aside. I'd ask what 'dribbling basketballs' means, but I'm rather sure I don't want to know.
You're probably right. No doubt he'd do the same with those throwing their support in for war... on either side.
No. I say we respectfully do what the region wants and stop trying to control it so terrorist groups stop forming in the first place.
No. I say we respectfully do what the region wants and stop trying to control it so terrorist groups stop forming in the first place.
What say you?
Do you enjoy coming off that silly? To you, in war there are no good guys or bad guys.
He would have been killed simply because we have been messing around with the Middle East since the end of WW2. ISIS may not have stealth fighters or smart bombs but they will fight back, anybody would fight back when a nation from the other side of the world attacks them when they shouldnt have to.
So why are we there?
Wrong on so many levels. Radical Islam is partly a creation of US foreign policy. We removed dictators and so left a power vacuum that was exploited by religious extremists.
And they dont want to subjugate us, they want to be left alone. There is no reason for them to come to our country and attack us other than the fact that we are attacking them.
Maybe it didnt start at that time, but we sure as hell made it grow into a monster because of what we did.
Radical Islam can only satiate itself on Muslim countries, it has no influence outside of them. There is no reason for us to make enemies out of a people who wouldnt care about us.
So you want to fight a war thats now the longest war in American history (and has no end in sight) over oil then? Wow. Thanks for finally admitting that.
I sometimes really struggle understanding my fellow Americans and their point of view. Here in America we have thousands of our citizens killed each year by fellow citizens, largely gang related, yet American seem complacent on the matter. We are afraid or refuse to make the tough choices and also to allocate the resources needed to combat the problem effectively. However as soon as a foreign force kills thousands of our citizens we are willing to go to war on multiple fronts and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to combat them. Not only that we are even willing to return to combat new potential risks while we still continue to ignore the problems at home. So what is this all really about? You cannot claim it is to protect Americans because we clearly avoid doing that domestically or are American deaths somehow viewed as worse if caused by a foreign force vs a domestic one? We just seems to like to point the finger across the globe while conveniently ignoring our own issues. I find that very bothersome.
What's silly is pretending that a call for war is something totally comparable with Jesus' teaching.
I sometimes really struggle understanding my fellow Americans and their point of view. Here in America we have thousands of our citizens killed each year by fellow citizens, largely gang related, yet American seem complacent on the matter. We are afraid or refuse to make the tough choices and also to allocate the resources needed to combat the problem effectively. However as soon as a foreign force kills thousands of our citizens we are willing to go to war on multiple fronts and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to combat them. Not only that we are even willing to return to combat new potential risks while we still continue to ignore the problems at home. So what is this all really about? You cannot claim it is to protect Americans because we clearly avoid doing that domestically or are American deaths somehow viewed as worse if caused by a foreign force vs a domestic one? We just seems to like to point the finger across the globe while conveniently ignoring our own issues. I find that very bothersome.
Yes...but only if necessary. I think we can get the job done with a contingent of US special forces painting targets for air strikes in support of the Kurds and whatever is left of the Iraqi military doing the close combat fighting.
Your problem is that you are giving too much recognition and to bloody murderous terrorists who do not represent anything but a harsh extreme version of islam. There is nothing the US has done that justifies what any terrorist is doing.
Why put American boots on the ground when literally every country in the region would probably be willing to in order to combat the threat? I think ISIS is doing wonders for Middle East relations, it gives them all a common enemy and a way for America to get back in their good books and I think that is best done in an air support role.
Personally, yes. That way it will end the debate and get everyone involved.So youi would rather fight them here.
Your problem is that you are giving too much recognition and to bloody murderous terrorists who do not represent anything but a harsh extreme version of islam. There is nothing the US has done that justifies what any terrorist is doing.
The main reason we care about the Middle East is oil.
Maybe we should design a program to drastically reduce our dependence upon oil.
That should solve the problem.
By boots on the ground you mean drones in the air, yes. They need to be wiped out, there is nothing good about them.