04-07-2017, 09:24 AM
My questions is, what is the end game? Do you plan to go all in, because Assad is going to do what he has been doing for 6 years, one air strike isn't going to change that. If you go all in and take out Assad then who takes over, ISIS? We basically committed an act of war last night, I am not sure people are thinking this through completely.
While the knee jerk moral compass says we did the right thing, the long term consequences could be another middle eastern war that will bog us down for another decade. We go in we remove Assad and then we are stuck there until 2025 fighting ISIS. Since ISIS isn't an actual country that can be conquered, but rather an ideology, we spend way to much time, money, and American lives fighting something that can't be defeated with guns. Sound familiar?
While the knee jerk moral compass says we did the right thing, the long term consequences could be another middle eastern war that will bog us down for another decade. We go in we remove Assad and then we are stuck there until 2025 fighting ISIS. Since ISIS isn't an actual country that can be conquered, but rather an ideology, we spend way to much time, money, and American lives fighting something that can't be defeated with guns. Sound familiar?
