Originally Posted by femdomdestiny (Post 20639621)

Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 20639476)

Air power alone will not solve this. At the same time, I don't believe boots on the ground will solve it either. ISIS is a hybrid between a country and government, a military force, and a terrorist group. Our military can take on a country or military force, but a terrorist group is really a criminal organization.

I am all for boots on the ground, but only if we are going to be serious about it. We need to build a massive base in the middle of Iraq and say "We will be here for the next one hundred years". And then stay there.

The Iraqi government and military is unable to handle this on it's own. Clearly Obama was wrong by pulling out troops when we did. This is not going to be a ten or twenty year commitment - this will be at least the next forty or fifty years.

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20639861)

i was replying to the post prior. i don't read russian but the comment was the airstrikes in the youtubes were ruining business for Turkey. should Turkey be tolerant of that?

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam (Post 20639877)

Where do you think that ISIS learned this strategy?