Quote:War is inevitable, especially with an uncompromising enemy. I don't have a problem with using the greatest military force in the world to eliminate sworn enemies. I have  a problem with nation building and world policing. When the enemy attacks and makes significant threats it's within our right to defend our interest. Unlike Hussein or Assad or Qaddafi we have a legitimate threat and direct actions taken against us from ISIS. They now have the capability to reach us and it's a threat that can not be ignored. We don't need to be involved in trying to domesticate them, help them find a more moderate leader, bring them democracy, no wipe them off the face of the earth and go home. 

 

Like others have said, it's scorcher the earth time and it ends there. Until the next group of radicals gets out of control, but let's face it, if we don't arm them and train them they won't be much of a threat.

France is handling it with a "massive" bombing campaign against the ISIS capital.  Wow, they have a capital?  Raqqa in eastern Syria.  Maybe somebody should have bombed it before this week?  Nah.  And we have now decided to bomb the ISIS 1000 tanker convoy that snakes across the desert transporting their oil.  We've just been watching it for months and didn't want to interrupt their main source of income because of some bogus concern for "civilian" truck drivers.  So far we haven't disturbed ISIS very much at all; the glossy November issue of Dabiq arrived right on time. 

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