US military commander in Iraq and Syria rejects GOP pledges to 'carpet-bomb' Isis

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(02-02-2016, 12:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Right, because after we stopped bombing the North Vietnamese the communist came over here and took over.


The similarities between our screw up in Vietnam, and Iraq are scary.  Both military actions were justified by a lie ("Gulf of Tonkin", "Weapons of Mass destruction") and fueled by fear ("If we don't defeat them over there we will have to fight them here in America").

It is amazing that we never learned our lesson from Vietnam.  We did not kill them all, yet instead of it being the first stepping stone of world domination by communists we now have Viertnam as a favored trading partner of the United States.

It's just a terrible situation.  If we're sending our sons and daughters over there to fight, there should at least be some prospect for ending the conflict.  But this is not a conflict that will end and all our considerable military won't make it so.  It's as much a CIA operation as a military one. 

What happens if you just leave?  What happens if you do carpet bomb whole countries?  You don't want Al Qaeda to have its own country but they are never going to go away.  You can't invade every country that harbors terrorists.  It seems so unwinnable and just looks like an eternal struggle because we, the infidels aren't going away either.