Here Comes the War on Terror, v 2.0

[Mr.Bill]

Yeah after WWII and throughout the CW I can see why we pulled most of the workload.. Europe was a mess and in no condition to stand up to Stalin and the USSR..

But since the 90's it's all on us.. There's no GOOD reason we still have to be the world's cop. Of course oil and the MIC are the reasons, but IMO there are not good reasons..

[Spider]

[Dylan]

[exploited]

[The Comrade]

you keep telling us to "Deal with" a situation we "created" that has very little to do with us.

we never told europe to slash their military budgets. we never told them to keep to get rid of their power projection capabilities.

it's not even a matter of world affairs. europe is so incompetent they can't deal with matters INSIDE EUROPE. that is a level of f**k the US wish it could achieve through diplomatic talks.

[The Comrade]

i figure stopping genocide would be the moral imperative of a religious man.

[Saz]

We should just apologize to Saddam so he will come back and rule iraq and things can go back to the way they were before.

[The Dharma Bum]

well, they asked for ransom when he was kidnapped

did that get paid? if not well...

[The Dharma Bum]

[Professor]

This actually has a relatively easy answer. "Give them their Islamic state."

Why are groups like ISIS and AlQ so hard to counter? Because they are shadowy groups that live amongst the populace of a country. By day, they are fathers and breadmakers. By night, jihadists. It's almost impossible to find them before they do something, because they are like every other guerrilla group in history.

But, give them a state, and all of a sudden they are no longer able to move around in the shadows, being hidden by the populace. They have to settle in one place, and make themselves visible. Once they do that, if they act naughty, then it's relatively easy to smack them down.