ISIS wants a massive western military response because the civilian casualties will drive moderates into the hands of extremists.
ISIS wants US Citizens to reject Muslim refugees fleeing Syria because this will drive them into the hands of the extremist.
ISIS wants a large unified Islamic Republic (just as Christian evangelists want everyone to be orthodox Christians).
Western violence in Muslim territory gives ISIS what they want. Western hatred of moderate non-violent Muslims gives ISIS what they want.
ISIS and the Republican Party want the same thing, without seeing it. They want the West to conquer Muslim territories so they can recruit ALL Muslims.
ISIS grew into a large organization AFTER the United States withdrew all of its troops from Iraq and after the Syrian military focused all its resources on securing the western areas of Syria. ISIS formed because of the lack of local or foreign military forces that were there. Restore that force and ISIS will decline and you will earn the praise and support of the local population.
ISIS has grown so large and been so effective because the WEST has done very little at this point to effectively stop it!
Nah, not under Obama... he'd send them over there with nothing but rainbow flags and peashooters.
How many American civilians would you be willing to watch die from ISIS attacks while we wait 14 more months to get a new President?
Does it make sense to kill a few thousand and wound thousands more American soldiers to stop an attack here that may or may not happen and if it did it certainly wouldn't have as many casualties?
Your plan just turns up the hatred of America. Been there done that.
September 11, 2001 could have been prevented if the United States invaded Afghanistan and uprooted the terror organization in the 1990s. Now your once again allowing a terror organization to exist with impunity because they live outside the United States. You'd be all for stopping criminals in the United States, but now that an essential nation state is launching attacks around the world, your unwilling to do the one thing that will quickly role them up and stop them. Terror attacks can have the ability to kill hundreds of thousands of people with the right means and every day the ISIS caliphate remains in existence that grows. A US ground invasion would last weeks and would not exceed more than a couple of hundred casualties if that. The United States never suffered more than 800 dead in any single year, and this invasion to retake territory and hand it back to the Iraqies would not take that long. You've got it wrong, its the revers