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Cyrano

(15,035 posts) Wed Sep 17, 2014, 01:37 PM Sep 2014

Let's not do anything about ISIS [View all]

No other country in the world seems to want to do anything about them. Why should we? Yeah, I know. They're insane nuts who murder, torture, kidnap, rape, and do every other horrible thing that can be done. (And they're not Christians.) But, we don't seem to be going after every other group of crazies in the world who do exactly the same things.

We're told this is going to take a long time. Hell, WWII lasted only six years (for Europe, Africa and Asia -- less than four years for us). So we're going to spend the next 20 or more years chasing them through every dark, back alley in the world?

The Republicans are foaming at the mouth for us to attack and kill, kill, kill them. That should tell us something regarding what they want to focus on in an election year.

Can anyone give me a good reason why the U.S. should take on this endless, no-win quest to end one single group of insane people?

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Let's not do anything about ISIS [View all] Cyrano Sep 2014 OP

The oil industry would like us to. Marr Sep 2014 #1

I've been thinking about this lately louis-t Sep 2014 #5

It's an interesting thought-- what I read was that they control five oil fields, and that Marr Sep 2014 #15

Dropping the price of oil will certainly get some invading going on! arcane1 Sep 2014 #51

Not to mention the Munitions Industry. ~nt~ 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #16

I think we should have the same urgency as we had.. TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #2

Hang on, are you suggesting selling weapons to Iran in order to fund ISIS? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #13

Well, we might consider setting up small dictatorships to... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #27

Was Bush right to do nothing about the Bin Laden threat? Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #3

If/when intelligence finds that they're Cyrano Sep 2014 #4

+1000 phantom power Sep 2014 #6

Or what if we spent that money on renewable energy resources. logosoco Sep 2014 #25

Like this? Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #8

There's a difference between a verbal threat and an actionable plot. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #19

I trust Obama to respond appropriately to this threat. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #23

Obama will do everything possible to Cyrano Sep 2014 #43

Republicans said the same thing about Bush. FlatStanley Sep 2014 #44

+1 uponit7771 Sep 2014 #38

that comment suggests there is a similar threat from ISIS Enrique Sep 2014 #9

This is more comparable to going after Hussein. Marr Sep 2014 #20

You would probably have said the same thing about Bin Laden in August 2001 (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #26

Your argument could've been used to justify invading Iraq. And it was, oddly enough. Marr Sep 2014 #31

Really? What in the world did bin Laden have to do with Iraq? (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #34

Bush claimed that Iraq was a threat to the United States. Marr Sep 2014 #37

On that, I agree with you. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #39

The problem is, Nye dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #47

Obviously, if Bush had just bombed Afghanistan a month before 9/11 the attacks would have Chathamization Sep 2014 #24

No invasion would've prevented 9/11, especially after the August 6th briefing arcane1 Sep 2014 #53

That's not the same, in most aspects. lark Sep 2014 #57

"No other country in the world seems to want to do anything about them." wyldwolf Sep 2014 #7

Wake me when their troops get there Cyrano Sep 2014 #14

Cyrano jumps down thread, moves goalpost wyldwolf Sep 2014 #22

For some, if you are going to 'do anything' that means troops and boots on the ground. Anything else pampango Sep 2014 #35

30 countries? Then we must certainly be able to sit this one out. n/t A Simple Game Sep 2014 #59

I stand with Elizabeth Warren on this. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #10

why? Enrique Sep 2014 #11

Myself, while I usually support Senator Warren I try to be an independent thinker and just totodeinhere Sep 2014 #29

Me too. (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #30

Agreed! Aerows Sep 2014 #40

We did our 'humanitarian' rescue, so time to let them go at it! This was well predicted when we..... dmosh42 Sep 2014 #12

Yes. Thank you for a voice of reason. 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #18

But..but...we have a golden opportunity to lose another war and prove our stupidity!! Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #17

With you 100% on this R.Quinn Sep 2014 #21

KurtNYC linked to this in another thread Aerows Sep 2014 #28

Cheers to you, Aerows. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #48

kpete made an OP about it Aerows Sep 2014 #49

The Middle East: Not our circus, Not our monkeys Algernon Moncrieff Sep 2014 #32

It's our fault this is happening Politicalboi Sep 2014 #33

What is your plan? Skidmore Sep 2014 #36

My plan would include Aerows Sep 2014 #41

Regarding the "not Christians" comment in the op Cyrano Sep 2014 #45

But we have to! Scuba Sep 2014 #42

actually many other countries have expressed concern over isis La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #46

There was a coalition in the Gulf Wars too. Rozlee Sep 2014 #52

Kerry: The cancer in Iraq locks Sep 2014 #54

Yes! For once let them battle it out among themselves. maddiemom Sep 2014 #55

Well "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."-Big Dawg TexasProgresive Sep 2014 #56

One day somebody sat our pal Barack down and showed him some $ that made his eyes pop. toby jo Sep 2014 #58

Sorry, I can't buy that. Cyrano Sep 2014 #60