[cld51860]

I say commit sortie after sortie, perhaps over a 24 hour period, of non-stop carpet bombing of Raqqa. Lay waste to the entire city, leaving not even two bricks standing together. Then we send in ground troops, perhaps 50,000, and make sure there is not one living thing. Not even a weed.

Erase it from the planet. Literally.

[bassmaner]

Then we send in ground troops, perhaps 50,000, and make sure there is not one living thing. Not even a weed.

Erase it from the planet. Literally.

I can think of a much more efficient way to do that, without having to put one American soldier in harm's way. We've actually done it twice before, once on 8/6/1945 and again on 8/9/1945.