re: ISIS and Taliban have declared Jihad against themselves

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Well, you can't destroy the sources of ISIS militarily

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No, but you can insist that our government stop using our tax dollars to fund it.

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You can destroy the organization, but you'll just have a new organization in a few years.

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Not without the funding source of a much greater power.

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OF COURSE you need allies in the region. "You would literally have to be borderline retarded" not to understand this basic fact of geopolitics.

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Who is saying otherwise?

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And OF COURSE Americans would not be willing to brutally repress the population.

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We have for decades. Ignorance is not an excuse.

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if we don't want to bring "democracy" there, why are we there?

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You are making my point.