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Originally Posted by polak
Wow ISIS is going to be wiped off the face of the earth. Along with everything around them.
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No more half measures.
If we want to get serious about fixing the problem, we're going to need to occupy the Middle East for a lot longer than 10 years. We can't make the same mistake as the US in "cleaning up" the area, dismantling the Iraqi army, putting in an idiot like al-Maliki, and then leaving the area only for the disenchanted former servicemen and insurgents to rise up and re-surge and cause mayhem just like we're seeing in Iraq. FWIW, Afghanistan are also seeing a resurgence of the Taliban.
Otherwise we may as well not waste our time. Several trials of 10 year-long 1st world intervention has yet to fix the problem.