Nothing like a world at war to get a couple of old bastards’ juices flowing!
I submit, THEIRS should be the FIRST boots on the ground, then.
We should have paid whatever the North Vietnamese demanded to keep John McCain.
I’ll go along with it on one condition; *ALL* are strictly volunteers. If you can’t get enough volunteers to discharge that duty, then fuggedaboudit.
Sorry Johnnie, been there done that in Iraq.
These two are total idiots.
Can’t they see that Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Obama are complicit in the existence of ISIS? The Turkish President is making money off them. The Saudis see them as a controllable Sunni tool against Assad and Iran’s influence - and who the hell knows what Obama’s goals are?
But McCain would go to war over ownership of a cow turd.
He wants to remove Assad. Okay, that means allying with ISIS...and taking sides against Russia (and Iran).
How can you possibly win in such an equation?
What would our 20,000 troops in Syria do? Who are we sending them there to kill? There are many players now:
1.) Syrian military to defend Assad?
2.) ISIS fighters?
3.) Syrian Rebels fighting against Assad fighters?
4.) Russians (who appear to be defending Assad against Rebels but not focussed on ISIS)?
Syria is already a quagmire. There is no mission there for us at this point. We’d have to go in and kill everybody to stabilize that situation. And 20K troops ain’t gonna get that done. We’ll need full armored and Air Superiority. That would, of course, bring a Russian & Iranian reaction. Are we ready for that? I doubt it, and certainly not with the current American leadership. It’s too late for America to have diplomatic influence as the situation has already escalated in all out war. The participants are already “pot committed”. No amount of bluffing or gambling is going to get them to stop fighting now. Only the nutz (the winning hand), in the form of military might will bring peace. And peace will only come with VICTORY by someone.
China, Iran, Russia, Syria are already Allied. There is supposedly (according to our President and media) 65 countries in a “Coalition” against.... what exactly? Is the fictitious coalition against ISIS, Assad, Terrorism in general, Muslim Extremists, what? Is Isreal part of the imaginary coalition? Whose side is ISIS on? It’s hard to tell?
FRiends, it’s been said. WWIII is here. Just as in WWI and WWII, America starts on the sidelines not realizing what is happening and then is forced to join late. In the case of WWII, the catalyst was an attack on Pearl Harbor. We started and funbled following 9/11 because we weren’t nasty enough. This Cumbaya foreign policy we are now smoking our way through is turning the world into a hotbed of genocidal evil and America is in the crosshairs as much or more than Europe.
Alas, we do nothing to defend ourselves from the coming storm.
After they gutted the Military to Pre WW2 strength how do these IDIOTS, DUMBOS think we can put 20K fighting men or women in harms way.
Let Putin kill them off. He’s good at it. Where as DUMBO ties our Military’s hands with DUMB ROE’S. Getting them KIA or maimed for life at 3 times the rate under GWB.
If Linda Graham called for anything, it was because McCain shoved his hand back up Linda’s butt and made her mouth move!!
You remember them don't you? Those are the nice folks who decided to remodel downtown Manhattan for us. Islamic urban renewal I guess is what the politically correct one-worlders would have us call it.
Arming our enemies and their allies...is nothing short of treason. And yet; there they are, the lovely couple all over the media demanding we send more of our kids to fight the scum...THEY F^@&ING ARMED.
This country is suffering from a case catastrophic terminal stupid.
They should be in jail.
JMO
No, no, no and hell no.
20,000 American men and women to .....
Fight on which side?
Die for which side?
Sunni or Shia?
Anyone in the military should get out as soon as they can.
It is obvious that you will be required to fight (and possibly die) for either Sunni Islam or Shia Islam to have the upper hand ... not for America or Americans.
Is that what you want to possibly die for?
I will follow them.... when pigs fly.
What “air campaign”? Two sorties a day and we tell them when and where they will take place.
These two now want to help the GOP lose the Presidential election. Americans do not want ground troops going in.
They need more than 20,000, they need 250,000 with good ROE, robust sealift, and goals achievable by killing people and breaking things.
ISIS is an infantry problem.
BEAVUS AND BUTTHEAD