Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 16
th, 2016 at 1:23pm:
Mistress Nicole wrote on Jul 16
th, 2016 at 11:26am:
Regarding your last sentence, that was my view. But it's changed.
If he's elected, Trump wants to declare war and hit ISIS hard. I agree. And it should be noted in this context that Trump has been critical of bush jnrs invasion of Iraq
Different ball game now.
ISIS, like al-Qaeda, is a floating crap game. The Afghanistan experience is a clear demonstration of how Western forces can do no more than teach the local militia how to hold a gun and defend their cities and towns against the insurgents. Once that's been achieved, Western troops should be recalled home - lock, stock, and barrel.
It's been 15 years since the West put boots on the ground over there in Afghanistan, and not only are the terrorist groups stronger than ever, but apparently 15-goddamned-years hasn't been enough time to drill the locals into some semblance of being a respectable militia ...
... and while all this expensive and life-costing bullshit has been going on for a staggering 15 years - (three times longer than the Second World War) -
hundreds of young Afghani men of military age have been migrating to the West to take up jobs as taxi-drivers, Supermarket trolley-boys, security guards, and dole-queue 'clients'.
Herbert, I'm not talking about bush's ridiculous plan of 'democratising' Afghanistan and Iraq. And I don't know, but I strongly suspect trump isn't either. I'm not talking about the west training middle eastern armies and the like.
I think the US (and nato if trump has his way) can decimate Isis in a matter of weeks. Then we pull out.
Of course I take the point made by Issuevoter above - another ugly Islamic group will take control - Islam is a many headed snake. But they cannot - under any circumstances - think they can hit the west with terror attacks with impunity. Good men need to act.
And we need to stop pussy footing around - I had to remind my own father of Dresden last night. F#ck the collateral damage - you strike at our women and children, and we strike at yours.
It's war. It's their civilians or ours.