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re: ISIS and Taliban have declared Jihad against themselves
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:12 pm to TX Tiger
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:12 pm to TX Tiger
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We defeated the Nazis and the Japanese COMBINED in four years. How anyone can still believe that we haven't been able to beat a bunch of thugs over a 14-year period (and counting) is beyond me.
Our military is neither structurally nor morally well-equipped to defeat an insurgent population. To "win" in that case we'd have to act with a kind of brutality that would hardly win friends and influence people abroad, and would be swiftly rejected at home. And what would be the point of such a victory anyway?
Sure, we could destroy IS with a ground army quickly, but the Sunni population would still be there, and the same underlying political and sectarian problems that gave rise to IS in the first place would likewise still be there, and probably worse.
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Posted on 4/21/15 at 8:25 am to Bayou Sam
quote:Are you trying to tell me that the greatest and most well-funded military in the history of man can't defeat a bunch of thugs?
We defeated the Nazis and the Japanese COMBINED in four years. How anyone can still believe that we haven't been able to beat a bunch of thugs over a 14-year period (and counting) is beyond me.
Our military is neither structurally nor morally well-equipped to defeat an insurgent population.
How is it even possible that anyone would believe this?
quote:So, after 9/11 our goal was to win friends abroad?
To "win" in that case we'd have to act with a kind of brutality that would hardly win friends and influence people abroad, and would be swiftly rejected at home.
I can say with some certainty that after 9/11 there was next to nothing we could have done over there that would have been "swiftly rejected at home."
And yet 14 years later (and still counting) we're still over there.
You would literally have to be borderline retarded to still buy this steaming pile of propaganda.
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