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The only way to defeat ISIS
CNN ^
| 8/21/14
| Mark Hertling
Posted on 08/21/2014 1:15:33 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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An opinion piece. But an excellent informed one.
To: TangledUpInBlue
I don’t want to go to the CNN site.
Can you cut to the chase and tell us what the only way to defeat IS is?
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:21:58 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
To: ifinnegan
Starts with “thermo”, ends with “nuclear”.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:22:54 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: ifinnegan
“Special operators designating key targets and U.S. air power dropping bombs will contribute, but ultimately only the Iraqis, including the Kurds, can turn this around.”
Since that will not happen, eventually nukes. Just a matter of how much crap we are willing to eat before it happens.
To: ifinnegan
I don’t blame you. He basically said you have to have an understanding of local tribal law and win those people over to the fight. That the central Iraqi government has to convince those local people that they are better off with them, instead of trying to overthrow them. They basically hate ISIS but want the government gone.
But I agree with the guy who said Thermonuclear.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:28:13 PM PDT
by
TangledUpInBlue
(I have no home. I'm the wind.)
To: Gadsden1st
“...ultimately only the Iraqis, including the Kurds, can turn this around.
They can’t turn this around.
So he is saying nothing can win it.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:28:52 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
To: DuncanWaring
Starts with thermo, ends with nuclear. That doesn't defeat the ideology of a people who will strap bombs onto their children, which is what we must do.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:37:41 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
To: DuncanWaring
Think about the environment, man! All that heat, blast wave, fallout...
Neutron weapons. Quick, clean, and utterly lethal.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
BrewingFrog
(I brew, therefore I am!)
To: TangledUpInBlue
This guy has a lot invested in Iraq. His biography says he spent three years fighting in Iraq.
It’s hard to watch your work turn to crap.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: DuncanWaring
To: TangledUpInBlue
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:55:36 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: TangledUpInBlue
“...get on the comm and tell fleet to glass this rock...”
Sgt Rico,
Mobile Infantry,
Starship Troopers
Robert Heinlein
KYPD
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:57:29 PM PDT
by
petro45acp
(It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
To: TangledUpInBlue
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:57:30 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Carry_Okie
That doesn't defeat the ideology of a people who will strap bombs onto their children, which is what we must do. It worked against the Japanese.
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posted on
08/21/2014 1:59:54 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: SampleMan
I vote for nukes. Just a handful, small and well-placed, to destroy their command centers and break their ideology. Demonstrate that Allah can’t protect them from western technology, whenever or wherever we choose to deploy it.
It would probably be the most humane thing for their victims, as well.
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posted on
08/21/2014 2:05:25 PM PDT
by
RaveOn
("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
Smile! And whistle while you work!
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posted on
08/21/2014 2:15:39 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: SampleMan
It worked against the Japanese. These guys are worse, in that they have no honor. When the Japanese surrendered, that was it. These guys won't do that. They'll fake surrender, and then kill you at the first opportunity.
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posted on
08/21/2014 2:26:28 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
To: DuncanWaring
“Starts with thermo, ends with nuclear.”
My sentiments exactly.
A few well-placed nukes would not only wipe out a lot of them, but would let countries like Iran, Russia and China know we mean business.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
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posted on
08/21/2014 2:53:10 PM PDT
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: Secret Agent Man
“nukes. from orbit.”
It’s the only way to be sure.
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posted on
08/21/2014 2:54:32 PM PDT
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: Carry_Okie
If you turn Mecca into a crater that glows in the daylight their ideology also goes up into smoke.
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posted on
08/21/2014 3:14:05 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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