Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 20222698)

I guess my point is...why are we there at all?

What are we doing in Iraq at this point? What are we protecting? Is it really worth it to keep making new enemies by killing people there?

We know that IS can't invade the U.S.
We know that we are making them bigger by opposing them and giving them credibility.
Sadaam is gone (which was supposedly our only objective in the first place)

So what are we doing?
Are we going to stop a crazy person from pulling a stunt like 9-11 by bombing in Iraq and possibly Syria too?
No.

NOTHING on Earth (especially the military) can stop a few crazy people from blowing shit up from time to time.

But blowing shit up, beheading a person, killing some people here and there...none of that equals a "threat" to our nation.

Hell...it turns out that our "intelligence" was way off during the actual "Cold War" with the Soviet Union and they didn't have half the abilities that we were told they did. So even that "threat" was exaggerated to some extent.

IF any nations are a real threat to the U.S. in 2014 it would be Russia and China. But neither of those countries have done anything to us at all.

"IS" isn't a "threat" to the United States...they are nothing. We could literally send a couple of thousand rednecks in with shotguns and finish them off. :(

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20222766)

I'm really not the one to try and convince you they are a threat. You are confident they are not and this is all a troll orchestrated by the government.

You could very well be right.

You could also very well be wrong and that's why I think we need to deal with [IS] right now.