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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
Your points are generally accurate.
Turkey has mandatory military service (with some caveats) for males, so its army is usually strong.
The party in power has also tended to be more religious in nature, which drives people like my parents (in their late 60s/70s) nuts because they were brought up with strong secular values.
However, I'm quite certain that the party in power does not have the stomach for a cross-border fight based on religious preference. They're trying to advance that agenda internally through the political system, which is their right.
I think that these Middle Eastern countries do indeed need to be left alone to battle / figure this out. It's a shameful situation, but it is within their borders and sometimes you have to let the fire burn until it smothers out. Once they try to cross over borders to subjugate other people, then perhaps the Western countries will need to decide on a course of action.
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If we follow that strategy the West has to be prepared to ignore the humanitarian costs of this kind of battle. But we did it pretty easily with Syria once it slid off of the front page.
A battle between ISIS on one side and lets say Iran and other nations on the other side will be a massive bloodbath equivalent to what you would see in the crusades with Civilians being caught and slaughtered in the middle.
TBH the most effective strategy against ISIS would be the use of chemical weapons, and I'm not talking the light stuff or the non lethal stuff, I'm talking the use of persistent advanced nerve agents . ISIS is not equipt properly or trained to fight in a compromised environment, while Iran's special forces troops are trained to fight in that type of environment and usually have the equipment to do it.
don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating the use of advanced chemical weapons, personally I hate them far more then I ever hated Nukes which were evil things. But there's a reason why Iran stockpiles them so readily.
The only way that you're going to beat a group like ISIS is to break their resolve, destroy the moral of the guy that flew half way around the world to fight in a campaign and to chop out their leadership tree.