Honestly if the Iraq military and people are not willing to defend then why should we help them again? From my reading they outnumber the insurgents by a considerable margin yet don't have the "will" to fight for their beliefs. We have helped them enough, how about we help our own country for once?
"But who better suited for global domination and religion police than that same incompetent federal government we love to hate."Killing foreigners is why we have a federal government. As wookie hero Thomas Jefferson showed, the way to deal with people who threaten us is to kill them.Who said a New OSS assassination program or series of Ajaxes would require any boots on the ground? Like al-Qaida does not have enemies already? "Like I said the Japanese were nuts but they believed the Emperor was God. Consider the situation, 2 major cities are flattened and the guy you thought was God is defeated, then proceeds to come out and say "Guess what guys, I'm not God". Their cultural fanaticism to follow their God emperor pretty much disappears right there right?"The Humanity Declaration was AFTER the Japanese surrender, 1946. We changed the Japanese religion after we destroyed them in order to keep them in line.
That's pretty much what I thought. The "Highway of Death" was no accident and if need be, we can do that again, for relative cheap, compared to boots on the ground meeting ISIS/ISIL in ground combat. There's not that many of them, and if they want to form up in nice, straight lines of purty white pickups on a desert road, that works for me.haha
There's a pic of a column of these ISIS irregulars in Toyota pickups. That's like an A-10 driver's wet dream, isn't it?
Looks like Iran and the Shia militias are stepping up to the plate, since the US trained military is deserting. It's going to be down to the people to do the defending.
BBC News - Iraq conflict: Sistani 'issues' Shia call to arms
You mean like how we dictated to the Japanese that their emperor was no longer a god via the Humanity Declaration?
History is such the stranger at INGO.
We've done it before and we can do it again, we can do it again, we can do it again!
Says someone who's probably never left the US. They may be having issues right now, but the ME is actually a rather nice place when it's not under threat from extremists.Islamic world = One big sh$t hole.
ME is actually a rather nice place when it's not under threat from extremists.
Which is virtually NEVER.
Been there a number of times....it's a sh$t hole.
Lived there for 6 years. You're dead wrong.
America shouldn't be about world domination, but about world democracy.
.
Says someone who's probably never left the US. They may be having issues right now, but the ME is actually a rather nice place when it's not under threat from extremists.
Where I align (I think) with Kirk's world view is that people tend toward democracy. Give people a chance to have a voice in their gov't, they will take it.
America shouldn't be about world domination, but about world democracy.
Sometimes, that will mean groups like the Islamic Brotherhood get elected. If it was a fair election, then so be it. It is about the process.
So who won our freedom for us from the Brits while we dropped our rifles and ran?