LoneLaugher
Diamond Member
He is the deal. Unless and until ISIS represents a nation state......or is clearly supported and promoted by a nation state, it is simply a criminal organization.
The fear mongering that is going on.....the stupid drumbeat toward war.....is the stuff of past mistakes. Had we treated Al Qaeda in such a manner.......we'd be way ahead of the fucking game. Instead.....we brought the big guns........and gained nothing.
I say we treat these assholes like we would any organized crime problem. Intelligence and police work. Pretending that we can combat crime with a military response is great for Haliburton and gives many USMB nutters a huge hard-on.....but is doesn't work.
ISIS is more of a threat to the nations of Iraq and Syria ( and Lebanon and Jordan and Palestine ) than they are to the United States.
Let's learn from our mistakes.
The fear mongering that is going on.....the stupid drumbeat toward war.....is the stuff of past mistakes. Had we treated Al Qaeda in such a manner.......we'd be way ahead of the fucking game. Instead.....we brought the big guns........and gained nothing.
I say we treat these assholes like we would any organized crime problem. Intelligence and police work. Pretending that we can combat crime with a military response is great for Haliburton and gives many USMB nutters a huge hard-on.....but is doesn't work.
ISIS is more of a threat to the nations of Iraq and Syria ( and Lebanon and Jordan and Palestine ) than they are to the United States.
Let's learn from our mistakes.