04-07-2017, 10:03 AM
(04-07-2017, 09:24 AM)Au165 Wrote: 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?
Money pit.
It's how the Mujahadeen got Russia to withdraw from Afghanistan. It's what ended the Cold War and caused the breakup of the former USSR. It's why Bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center. It's why our national debt has grown at an increased rate since 2001.
Plus, did anyone else pick up on the irony of calling on the entire world to end all forms of terrorism after launching 50 tomahawk missles into Syria to strike fear into the heart of Assad or was that just me?
