A stepped-up campaign has been promised and in progress before the french shootings.
But nobody is going to put 50,000 new targets on the ground for ISIS.
Who would hold the territory once won anyway.
If your going to keep troops on the ground to hold it AGAIN, they will be targets.
Nobody would argue our ability to take them out. But at what cost to keep them out ?
There will never be peace in the middle east till those that have the benefit of the peace have a investment in the war.
It's the best deterrent I've ever seen.
If you don't have that, expect more of the same.
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