How many of these countries who are supposedly threatened by ISIS or this proposed merger of ISIS/AQ are actively involved in fighting them? How many have ‘boots on the ground’ and everything else in this fight?
Or is it just the USA doing everyone’s dirty work for them again?
Israel will do what it takes to protect itself and has proven it will do so, so I don’t have a problem with giving them arms/equipment or even air support.
The other countries, not so much. How about they take some of the money from their generous social safety net, health care, 5 weeks paid vacations, etc and put it toward defense?
I’m not seeing the information I want to see about Europe, which is RIGHT NEXT DOOR to all this, not to mention all their Muslim immigrants. What are they putting into this fight?
Seriously tired of us having to do it all (and always getting ragged on for ‘interfering’ in the middle east).
Solution (requires the election of the right person as the next POTUS) ...
and this could wait until then, things are not going to move that fast ...
early in 2017, inform the Muslim world the problem is theirs to fix and they have four years (first term in other words) ...
suggestion being, the “moderate” Muslims (if there be any) would get together, figure out how to eliminate ISIS and Al Qaeda, and do it within four years ...
if they fail, or balk, then part two is that we eliminate all aspects of Islamic terror, top to bottom, as we see fit
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and if they don’t like it, too bad, we’re fed up and can’t wait another generation for Islam to snap out of it.
Liberals would go nuts, they could be ignored because after eight years of Obama, there won’t be more than a handful of liberals in Congress, and hopefully nowhere near the administration either.
What’s good about putting the burden on the Muslims themselves is that it might accelerate the modernization that can be seen (vaguely) in a few places, and get them to do what they have failed to do in fourteen centuries, define their religion properly and give the rest of the world somebody who is authorized to speak for them — at the moment, the situation is too nebulous, and frankly it invites an over-reaction such as getting rid of all Muslims.
I would not say that in this two-part program, we would all just sit around to wait and see what happens. Some proactive steps could be taken against terrorism threats against our countries and our interests in the region, but as to military confrontation of ISIS and Al Qaeda type groups, this would have to be spearheaded by whatever Islamic countries were prepared to fight them. If none are then they should be very clearly informed that phase two would be a region-wide cleanup on a massive scale on our terms, and if it didn’t suit them, tough.