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Originally Posted by transplant99
Eh?
I have no recollection of a NATO led coalition that has put boots on the ground in the middle east with a sole goal of eliminating a specific group of radicalized scumbags whose only goal is to kill anyone and everyone who doesn't believe in their #######ized view of Islam.
Beyond that though...doing nothing is not an option. Diplomacy does not exist in this situation.
So what is left?
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The idea of actually eliminating every member of a group like IS is so insane and logistically impossible that no government ever would propose doing exactly that, but every 5-10 years or so we get a new boogeyman in the middle east and we're sold the idea that we just have to take them out and then every thing will be all better (IS, Taliban, Osama, Saddam, whoever is giving Isreal a hard time). It's becoming abundantly clear that the long term solution doesn't lie in 'boots to asses' and that a different and more complex approach is required if peace in the middle east is the goal.
I think it's important to stop thinking of ourselves and our governments as being the 'good guys', a brief history of the last 100 years in the middle east would show that this is very far from being the case.