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Originally Posted by blinki bill
US is already bombing them like crazy the problem is that there aren't proper ground troops, if US had ground troops + air attacks this will be wrapped up really fast.
It's not like the allied forces were pounding on Germany and they couldn't do anything, in fact in the beginning they had superior tech, which allowed them to be so successful. like the 'fau' rockets which after the war opened the door to space. Japan on the other hand only capitulated when two cities were nuked.
I guess if you just go and bomb everything that moves from air or you drop nuke over the area it will be over quite fast and you won't need ground invasion but nowadays you do have to care about civilians (or at least pretend to)
One of the problems is that those same countries won't take them, only Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco are taking Syrian refugees. Turkey and Lebanon are quite packed, the population of Lebanon is 25% refugees at the moment and no one is helping. Western Countries refused to give money to keep them there or put political pressure to other neighbouring countries to take them, well you can't wish problems away if you ignore it it gets worst...
But when you say "This is a middle eastern problem, you fix it" they can easily respond "You fucked up the middle east, it's your problem"
Agree there, ISIL's power is blown completely out of proportion in the media.
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I think the whole point of this guys message about a 3rd WW is it wont be conventional war unless the bigger powers of the muslim countries get involved if we send in ground troops. ISIS dont have a lot of heavey weaponry and dont really have a command and control like we do over here in the west. Trying to fight a an emeny like Iiss with only air power wont work. We have been bombing them and so has Syria and they are still gaining ground.
Its an idealogy you have to fight which wont be soved by air power thats for sure.
Sending in ground troops would most prob be one of the only ways to try and stop them which could then spiral into something bigger Fighting a terror group like Isis will be costly to our ground troops as we saw in Afganistan. Isis is a much bigger problem than what people think they are even if they dont have a lot of weaponry because of the way they organize themselves without any real stucture and they have a lot of money which the west has also tried to stop whithout much success.