Tell him we used the same technology to locate ISIS facilities in Syria that we used to locate Iraqi WMD factories.
Ha! What makes it better is that he knows I’m an OIF vet, so he assumes that I supported everything about the way Bush the Younger handled Iraq and Afghanistan.
IMHO, we should have kicked butt and left, pronto. Nation building in Islamic countries is a for the birds, and we were fools to try. Just show them that any trouble they cause will be repaid swiftly and in kind, but a hundredfold.
F22s and PGM are fine, but in a way it’s all self defeating. It’s a show of how limited and measured our response always is, even if it’s tactically brilliant.
It doesn’t accomplish the strategic goal of convincing the population that tolerates these nutjobs that they should quit supporting them, either directly or through inaction.
I think that if we unloaded a few thousand tons of dumb bombs on a couple of major cities, ala Hamburg or Tokyo, it would do more to deter the Jihad impulse than a whole decade of precision strikes.
Sherman was right. War is Hell, and you cannot refine it, even with laser guided munitions.