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To: 9YearLurker
We shouldn't send any troops until we realign ourselves with only using troops with RoE that are favorable to them, when necessary, and with a clear charge and ability to outright win.

We shouldn't be sending troops in period. But to your point what would constitute a "win"?

Trump has said repeatedly that he wants to go back to Reagan's approach of so strengthening our military that he doesn't expect to ever need to use it.

Trump has also said he wants to defeat ISIS and take their oil. I don't think Reagan would have viewed that as a proper use of the lives of American servicemen.

150 posted on 02/14/2016 5:56:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

You don’t appreciate the threat that ISIS is, apparently, nor how they are using the oil that they have seized to fund their operations.

I’m not ready to send ground troops into Syria—and I’m quite certain Trump has come out against that as well (he has said he’d let Putin keep going after ISIS, although that does IMO ignore some of what Putin is doing there), so I don’t know why you’re pretending that he’s for it.


155 posted on 02/14/2016 6:00:23 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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