[EQAndyBuzz]

Nothing to see here... Move along.

[Viennacon]

Obama is allied with these people. He is a Muslim extremist. All the evidence is clear.

[R0CK3T]

More overseas contingency operations I see...

[R0CK3T]

More overseas contingency operations I see...

[bgill]

An islamic cell by any other name is still a terrorist organization.

[eartick]

Is these the “rebels” Obama will be training for the next couple of years to defeat the Islamics that are not Islamics that are in ISIS?

[McGruff]

Here's a solution let Assad kill them all.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I guess I look at all of this the same way I would look at a treating a bacterial infection. Bacterial infections can and do kill people frequently. Bacteria that become resistant to antibiotics are particularly deadly. That's why when treating a bacterial infection you want to be appropriately aggressive, and treat for an appropriately long period, so that you don't allow the survival of those bacteria who are developing resistance to the antibiotic you are using.

What we've done in the Middle East, IMHO, is the equivalent of stopping the antibiotic treatment before eradicating the infection. Those bacteria we didn't eradicate (the remnants of Al Queda, etc.) have developed resistance to the antibiotics (e.g. learned new strategies, such as how to insulate their funding sources from us, and likely new ways to avoid surveillance and counterterrorism measures) and are now causing a new infection (i.e. ISIS), and they are going to require new antibiotics and a more aggressive treatment to eradicate. If we can't produce better antibiotics, to which they are susceptible, they will continue to grow until they destroy us.

In short, by not finishing the job and providing lasting security to the world and the Middle East, we have allowed the enemy to develop resistance against our tactics, and have now made them more dangerous than they were before. Dealing with this will involve a more aggressive strategy than before, not a lessor strategy. Unfortunately, that's the truth, and the administration is not going to respond in this manner.