RE: Why fight ISIS?
June 11, 2015 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 9:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 11, 2015 at 8:50 am)Saxmoof Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 8:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You mean, like Syria and Iraq?
There must be a stable country in the area that's capable of fighting them and in more immediate danger from them than we are, what about Iran? I'm not saying no-one should fight them, I just don't see how we can improve the situation
And if you want to fully destroy them and make sure they don't come back then surely at some point we have to send in ground troops and then stay there indefinitely, that's hardly a good solution
Counterproductive to our interests and wasteful of past action. Iraq was supposed to be a bulwark against Iran. What sense would it make to invite Iran, now, to overrun Iraq...even if they could and were interested? -One- of the reasons to deal with ISIS ourselves, currently, is to retain some measure of control as to who fills the vacuum in the region.
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