Nearly two-thirds of voters say U.S. allies losing fight against Islamic State - Washington Times
A lot has been said about isis and it seems we the people of the United States are united with the point on the future of isis.
It is clear that they must be killed (no variants).
To solve the problem we train Iraqis troops to do all the dirty job (doesn't work cause muslims sympathize muslims, even the most radical ones) and at the moment we are not officially involved into a War with isis.
What do you think, should we send our troops to fight isis or should we wait for something?
What is more important - lives of our soldiers or lives of the innocent refusing to negotiate with terrorists?
First time I clicked on this thread and not reading any further than the OP. I do not want a third Iraq War with dead American youth scattered across that country, it isn't worth it, and whether we defeat ISIS or not, there are three separate and distinct cultures there and in Syria, which ISIS controls parts of, who have hated each other for 1000 years or more. As General George Patton is quoted as saying "I don't like paying in blood for the same real estate twice." Even if we "think" we have defeated ISIS, we haven't defeated or eliminated the racial and religious hatred's of those three cultures, and violence will continue.
President Obama, totally inexperienced in foreign affairs, ran on a campaign promise to end the Iraq War. Upon assuming the office, he did exactly that. He not only honored the campaign promise, but told the world we were leaving; told our enemies there the exact time table for our military withdrawal, and announced the date when our last tank and infantry brigade crossed over the Iraqi border, into Kuwait. Handed the terrorists now known as ISIS the information they needed to take control.
All they did was lay low, and flood back into Iraq, disarm the Iraqi army, which is mostly part of ISIS itself, and start a killing rampage among their own, and Christians and Jews worldwide. Obama's major error was in not leaving 10,000 or so troops to control the major cities of Iraq there long enough for the newly elected government to take control and protect the citizenry. That should have been at least 10-years occupation, and we would have had a much different outcome than what is today a murderous rogue non-state vigilante mob using American weapons.
We paid for control of those Iraqi cities in American soldiers blood once. Never again, there are countries over in the Middle East with a vested interest in the elimination of IS and ISIS that could handle the problem. We are out of Iraq, except for an advisory role, and air support, dropping 500 pound bombs, costing thousand and thousands of dollars, on pick up trucks. That is our foreign policy, and we should stay the heck out of that area, period..............
