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Originally Posted by Lionel Steel
I really enjoy your insight into military strategy Captain, it's an area that I will admit to not being very well versed in.
I bolded the section of your post that I find really interesting. I would agree that everything you said, but are we willing to do what it takes to make it happen? Like you said, the monetary cost would be huge, along with the human cost it would take to conquer and occupy the areas that IS currently controls. Is it feasible for the west to do that?
Another thought, will we be able to convince people in the Middle East to accept the kind of fundamental changes to their society that we are proposing? More importantly, do we want to be a society that forces our views on other at the tip of the sword?
Why not let the Middle East decide their own fate for a change? Have they not earned that right?
I realize I am asking a lot of questions here, but that's because I legitimately don't know how we should proceed here. I think a lot of people are in the same boat.
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I'm not the guy with the answers here, I tried to lay out what I thought above, and expect to take a unpleasant beatdown here shortly.
I would be ok if the Middle East decided its own fate, however that means the West should completely isolate itself from the Middle East in terms of any funding or purchases or Oil of other products.
My gut sense is that with the different groups in the Middle East and the ancient disputes in the Middle East, if you don't hold some kind of sword over that area that your going to see an unprecedented burst of violence and slaughter that's not only based around groups like IS, but around Nation versus Nation.
If there was no threat of Western Intervention, it wouldn't take Iran very long to go into Iraq for example. Saudi Arabia would probably get attacked as well, there are a lot of ancient disputes both based on Religion and on nationhood that would explode into violence.
Israel would probably freak out if the U.S. said the Middle East was on its own, and there would be little restraint there.