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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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That's all well and good, but the alternatives are not great either. The Sunnis were also killed and horribly treated when the Maliki government was in power,and we all know what Assad does. The main problem is that it's decades of dictatorial regimes that have left people battered and everyone wants revenge on someone. I like your idea of killing the leadership as it hands them a prestige blow, but to go after anyone flying that flag there, I'm not so sure that it makes things better.