[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Agree. Stop this crazy boots on the ground stuff. It costs hundreds of billions of dollars, kills the best of our best, and does not work. Air power only and assassin squads and some Special Forces--no boots on the ground! (Possibly, use tactical nukes if required).

That is another question. I have spent a lifetime working and paying federal taxes to build nukes. Just when are we going to use them? If the answer is they were built to not be used to prevent wars, we ARE AT WAR! I say give serious thought to using nukes. We must end nations harboring and aiding terrorists.

[El Gato]

Air power only and assassin squads and some Special Forces--no boots on the ground!

Hmm, special forces are boots on the ground. Not permanent ones necessarily.

Are you saying that we should be training indigenous forces? That is the tradition mission of US Special Forces. It's also what we are doing in Iraq, although the job is bigger than the Green Beanie types can handle alone. But it is getting done.