ISIS

[Benton]

(01-23-2017, 06:31 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: We'll see, but they have already admitted to changing tactics with ISIS about where they bomb.

Also, your first post in here that "Obama ordered those airstrikes was from 3-4 days before Trump was in office, and it was in Libya not Syria/Iraq. Unless you were trying to prove something that we already know?

Well, I already knew we were bombing them regularly and have been for a while. Since there was this thread about it, I didn't know if that was something we already know.



Seriously, though, as I said in that post, we're bombing them. We've been bombing them. We've had time tables for bombing them. A 30 day timetable isn't going to be any different than months worth of bombing if we're just doing what we've been doing. If military command unchanged — which so far is 99% the same — I don't see where there's any reason to think 30 drone attacks will be any different than 30 drone attacks.

And if anything, it sets us up for a huge failure. In 30 days, if ISIS isn't eliminated (or whatever word Trump used), that's another win in their recruiting when 30 days becomes 60, 90, 120. I won't knock Trump for being unable to eliminate ISIS (he can't, no more than Obama could) because one guy — even the POTUS — can't be held accountable for wiping out an ideology. Unless his plan is genocide (and it shouldn't be), then he's going to fail like every commander from every country before him.

The best thing he can do — in my opinion as an arm chair general — is keep Obama's promise: leave. Don't set a 30 day timetable for the impossible, set a realistic time frame for complete withdrawal. Let the fighting there run its course and instead of trying to decide who wins, decide who we help in terms of accepting refugees, reconstruction aide, etc.