[Jim Robinson]

Unfortunately, it now looks like we’re going to be fighting them over there AND over here.

[TigerClaws]

Purge the existing PC crowd. Trump can Executive Action to ax women in combat and toss out the homos and lefties. 10% cut across the board and retire the Obamabots.

Then lean down the armed forces and give them raises.

We need to do a 30% cut across the board to all government agencies to purge the Democrats and unionists from fleecing the American public.

[cld51860]

They want us to commit troops to a long protracted war. They are committing atrocity after atrocity to goad us into World War III.

[VerySadAmerican]

The article says:

“No piece of territory is truly secure until the infantry marches in and plants the flag”.

We don’t plant flags. In Desert Storm a soldier climbed up the barrel of a tank and hung an American flag. He immediately took it down. The press, along with the white house, condemned the action.

I think the last flag we planted was on the moon in 1969. And if we went there today we’d take it down and apologize to the universe.

[Cicero]

It’s a very bad idea to send our troops into battle with a gang of traitors in charge, who are covertly working for the other side.

[PIF]

Now before going be sure to liberally carpet bomb and napalm the entire region under ISIS control, this will minimize casualties greatly. (If you ask nicely, maybe Uncle P. will lob a few tactical nukes their way before you go in). Oh wait, you say you cannot do that because some civilian might die? Too bad, either go to war there like you mean it or stay home and die here.

[pallis]

What about all the other radical Islamists who want to kill us? The crazy Muslims are everywhere. Where do we send troops?

The best thing we can do is fight them with sane immigration policies.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

There is one and only one way to defeat ISIS. That is to send in American forces to wipe them out. We don’t have to stay. We can pull out after they have been crushed. To think we can stop them any other way is just foolish.

[Intolerant in NJ]

For the first time a majority (53 percent) of the public wants to send ground troops to battle ISIS...yeah, until next month when something else catches their attention and they decide the going is too tough and they'd rather be engaged in other activities - the US public is feckless, fickle, and has the attention span and emotional maturity of the typical fifteen year old.....

[Gene Eric]

>> We have neglected our armed forces for a long time and we cannot now expect that they will perform as they did in generations past.

The totality of performance may be different, but no doubt individual performance is no less.