PeterS

What intimidation? If they are "massed" here and are going to attack why would you not attack them because you were afraid they would attack? They are going to attack aren't they--your actions have nothing to do with it! That's circular logic--you are making no sense!

Liberty Tree

You are too dense to get through!!

laverne

I agree with Richard. you make a lot of sense. :-)

laverne

Brian Devon

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If I were a conservative war pimp president? I would exploit ISIS as an opportunity to get Americans to once again, for the umpteenth time, to hand over their children and treasure in another futile war....the kind that America always loses.

The boogyman trick seems to work quite well.

In Vietnam, the rubes believed the North Vietnamese commies would be coming for them after they captured Saigon.

In the middle east, they convinced gullible Americans again that Saddam Hussein had yellow cake uranium and if we didn't stop him our cities would be radioactive glass.

Of course Saddam did brutalize his people. Since when, however does the U.S. invade when an evil cruel dictator doesn't have a resource we want or a strategic chokepoint that
we covet?

Of course we didn't invade Uganda to rescue millions from a cruel butcher. Amin wasn't sitting on a sea of oil.

Americans have seen these militarists run the same movie over and over again.

Fortunately the majority of American voters have proven that they are not so gullible as to play Charley Brown to Lucy's football tricks.

It pisses off the wingnuts no end. Hence their new tantrum of the week.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

I'd chuckle if this weren't so important, going his own way is what he has done for the last four years so why would this be any different? Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a separate interview that Obama is perhaps "too cautious" in his approach to combating Islamic State.

Anigav6969

:thumbup:

Anigav6969

Sorry, I don't see the logic there

Anigav6969

I agree with you......but would you engage at all ? Missiles, drones, etc

rawwar

The first thing I Would do as president is sign a declaration of war with the backing of Congress. The second is tell everyone in the country over there if you're still there when we get there you are considered the enemy so leave and then start on two fronts and come to the middle. If war is what they want then war is what they would get.

Liberty Tree

I will try to make it simple. If Obama attacks ISIS abroad then terror groups will attack here. To avoid that Obama may not act strongly against ISIS. Get it.

Brian Devon

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No. When have our bombs and troops accomplished anything lasting in the middle east?

When you see a body of water.....and there is a sign that says, "quicksand" you stay the hell out.

I've mentioned this before. These people have been slaughtering each other for centuries, competing for the "my faith is better than your faith" trophy.

They have been doing this since long before the U.S. was a nation.

We took little interest in these people until we developed a strong oil addiction.

Again, its time we weaned ourself off of our oil dependency and went back to ignoring the Persian Gulf region as we did before.

What about Israel? Israel hardly needs American airstrikes nor American troops in the area. As they have proven quite a few times they are rather adept at defending themselves when attacked.

Anigav6969

Yes, I get what you're saying..

Question: so what would you suggest ?

Anigav6969

For me it's hard to argue with that...I know others here don't agree..

It's sad, but I have a feeling we're going in

Liberty Tree

Seal the borders as much as possible, put Homeland Seurity on high alert, put together (if possible) an coalition of nations to isolate ISIS economically and geograpically because we cannot do it alone, be prepared and carry out strong military action, make the price for their actions so high they are not willing to pay it, recognize that, infortunately, there will be civilian casualties, forget the opinion of the UN and others who may be critical, and make the only real priority the safety of American citizens.