Quote:The targets matter in air strikes we've been hitting shell targets but ultimately it may take ground troops that's just not something I'm real thill end about.


It's just frustrating now this was so avoidable really makes you wonder sometimes.

Even with the best of targeting, there's no guarantee that you've accomplished the mission unless you go in and verify that with boots on the ground. 

 

It was avoidable, but only for so long.  This extremist movement has been brewing for decades.  They feel this is their time to ascend to global power.  We've seen this kind of thing before where a small sect bubbles beneath the surface for a while, then seizes upon an opportunity to expand their movement and then to turn it into global domination. We've fought 2 world wars over it, and I suspect we're probably looking at a potential WWIII with the current situation.  I don't honestly see a feasible way to end this without going in and exterminating the whole lot of them. 

 

I don't think this nation has the stomach for another war, which is why I think something big is going to happen soon that will change that mindset.  Black flag?  Who knows? Anything is possible.  But, I do think the sentiment is going to have to be changed, and the surest way to get Americans to go from war weary to demanding we fight is to see our countrymen dying on our own soil.  That terrifies me to no end. 

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