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Originally Posted by Rochard
Air power alone will not solve this. At the same time, I don't believe boots on the ground will solve it either. ISIS is a hybrid between a country and government, a military force, and a terrorist group. Our military can take on a country or military force, but a terrorist group is really a criminal organization.
I am all for boots on the ground, but only if we are going to be serious about it. We need to build a massive base in the middle of Iraq and say "We will be here for the next one hundred years". And then stay there.
The Iraqi government and military is unable to handle this on it's own. Clearly Obama was wrong by pulling out troops when we did. This is not going to be a ten or twenty year commitment - this will be at least the next forty or fifty years.
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Bullshit.
He pulled them out before 10k more US soldiers were killed over there and refocused on Afghanistan.
It's just a silly dream that the US was ever going to control Iraq.
Bush had plenty of time to do all this great shit that Obama supposedly "refuses" to do.
ISIS :
The group originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004. The group participated in the Iraqi insurgency that followed the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces. In January 2006, it joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council, which proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in October 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islami...and_the_Levant