Posted on 04/13/2016 4:38:07 PM PDT by Nachum
It will take a coalition of 50,000 troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State, according to the former army chief of staff who spent more than four years serving in Iraq and who is credited, along with retired General David Petraeus, with being the architect of the successful 2007 troop surge there. "Probably around 50,000," said Gen. Raymond T. Odierno during a panel discussion moderated by Fox News for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Odierno, who received the George P. Shultz award for distinguished service, emphasized the 50,000 would not all be U.S. troops, but the coalition would need
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cool. Draft every member of Congress’s and every state legislature member’s kids to fight first.
Sure. We’ll supply 49,000 and the 1,000 Europeans will defect.
+1
Good idea and let the Saudis pay for it.
Reform the Devils Brigade. All convicts-volunteers. Send them there to do what they do best. Reward them when the job is done. How? Dunno. Guess they’ll have to keep fighting.
Change the rules of engagement back to what they were at least immediately post 9/11 and you’ll need considerably less troops and with lower cost of life.
Gee, that has a familiar ring to it... when have I heard that before?
Oh, I remember - August, 1964.
Exactly, because the problem is not ISIS, it’s Islam and the enemy is in our country and increasing in numbers. It is absurd to have US troops in the Middle East fighting for whatever Muslim sect is pretending to be our pals at the moment when Islam is establishing a foothold here.
Islam is incompatible with freedom and should be banned in civilized countries. Put US troops on our borders, deport Muslims, and let them kill each other over there to their heart’s content. Get as many Christians out of there as we can.
Institute a “pet the pig” requirement to board a plane or enter the US. Problem largely solved.
Massive B-52 strikes and target every mosque. Save the big nuke for Mecca
Never happen. Coalition allies have deemed it easier to allow mass immigration and capitulation than to actually kill the cancer..
They ARE faggy, aren’t they..
“Bring in 20,000 Chechnyan guns for hire from Russia. They love to fight. They will terrorize those faggy ISIS amateurs. They will waste them”
Obama will commit to 500. Just enough to get them all killed.
” Draft every member of Congress’s and every state legislature member’s kids to fight first.”
Post of the DAY!
My mess hall was the location of a monthly breakfast get together of retired colonels and generals. Damn, they were a drama queens, expecting to be waited on hand and foot, treated like royalty.
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