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Originally Posted by Zulu29
ISIS needs to be eradicated with the precision of a surgeons scalpel. Send in the special forces and wipe these creeps off the face of the earth.
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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
Yeah, because that worked so well before.
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Originally Posted by Azure
It actually has. JSOC wrecked havoc on terrorist groups in the ME the past 10 years. It is actually scary how effective they became.
It was the general boots on the ground and nation building that didn't work.
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That is the problem, and why the whole process didn't work despite JSOC's mission specific successes.
Special forces could go in, kill a bunch of terrorists, kill some civilians in the process, and have a few Americans killed.
But then they'd leave, and in their wake would be a vast ungoverned region - ungoverned in Syria because of the multi-sided civil war, and ungoverned in western Iraq because they can't put together a truly non-sectarian government that brings the entire citizenry together, nor do they have an effective national army to combat insurgents. And into that vacuum would flow the next terrorist group.
If Iraq can't pull itself together, even in the face of this threat, a boots-on-the-ground military response from the US would just be a very costly (in terms of money and lives) game of whack a mole.