The sad news is that we are finding that elections have consequences. Now I know a lot of you will immediately think I'm talking about Trump! But no, I am speaking of Obama. Nearly everything going on today is the aftermath of 8 years of that guy's failed policies. He tip toed around Syria and ISIS as long as he could, dealt with as little as possible avoiding it so that it could be dumped off on the next president, who now happens to be Trump. What we do next will depend on our level of PC tolerance.
I don't like what I'm about to say, but sometimes the best solution is to face things head on rather than drag them out. It might make things more painful in the short term, but could ultimately be cheaper and less costly in the long term. But it will likely get worse before it gets better.
In a world free of political correctness:
NORTH KOREA: We would go in with a covert stealth mission, kidnap 100 of their top officers, give them all brain-dead frontal lobotomies making them vegetables just like Otto Warmbier, then put them back all in one night. Just to let Kim know he don't **** with us. The way to deal with evil is to always hit them 100X worse than they hit you. Very soon, they don't hit you anymore.
IRAN: Shooting rockets over Iraq is an act of war! It is a direct threat to every country in the region. Put a THAD in there and the next time Iran shoots some up, we knock them down over Iran territory landing on their own cities. Pretty soon Iran learns that it does not pay to shoot missiles at other people.
SYRIA: Can't fly west of the river? I'm sorry, but you have to call Russia's bluff on that. You go in with overwhelming force prepared for all out war. If Russia succeeds, Iran and Russia take over all of Iraq and Syria all the way to the Mediterranean. So what? We already acquiesced in the Crimea. This would give Russia a dominance and controlling influence in all of the Middle East. Iran would love to take control of that territory. A line must be drawn in the sand right now that Russia discovers our resolve that they go no further. Every win for Russia only makes them bolder and more aggressive. Same goes for Iran. The sweetheart deals are over.
RUSSIA: Want to **** with us over the seas of Alaska? Want to fly within 5 feet of our jets? Just as with Iran dicking with our Navy ships, the game must stop here. You don't shoot down a Russian fighter, but what we CAN do is knock it out with high energy radio-MW jamming, disabling the fighter, taking it out of commission and forcing it to land. The jet would require extensive repairs before able to fly again.
When a child tests it boundaries and calls your bluff, you either back down and make them bolder, like Obama did, or you nip it in the bud. I suspect we will do some, not all of the above, but enough to send the message. The future will be getting real interesting. Elections have consequences, but at least now instead of bureaucrats running our military, Trump has the Generals in charge.
