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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
I get what you're saying, Captain, but the problem I think is that their recruiting seems to be going up since the strikes started. Even today with Egypt striking them and in the process killing some civilians, they will use that as fuel. I sometimes wonder if a better strategy would have been to let them get really settled in, would they have been as attractive if no one was bombing them? Would they have expanded a bit more? yes. But with added expansion and more civilians to provide services to, I think they would have reached a point where you have to get down and govern. And if then they still would have continued their atrocities, you would have more valuable targets to strike in their infrastructure.
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If you let them settle in, their idea of governing is to hideously murder anyone that doesn't share their twisted vision of an Islamic State. If you let them establish it becomes a beacon of success for every loser looking for a cause, and if you let them settle in they will continue to spread their hate filled ideology and recruit and export trained terrorists.
Personally the only reason why you call off the air strikes and let them establish their hideous form of government and their slave state is so that you can contain them and then nuke them to ashes, and before anyone jumps on me, that's not the solution, and I don't advocate nuking anyone.
I advocate using special forces to kill everyone flying that flag and leading those people. I advocate for assassinations of their leadership. I advocate finding their sources of funding and killing those. Air strikes won't knock ISIS off balance, it will harden their resolve. Sure it looks good in Western papers and we can preach that we're doing something. But to ISIS its a weak response and an encouraging sign that eventually the West will accept their poison and their rule, and that will be the ultimate sign of victory for them and the ultimate recruiting poster.