So the idea is to do what with the embassy in the middle of this? Even if I was to think which I don’t we are to spend another 700-billion on a long term stabilized adventure, with an undermined short term goal for Baghdad, this regime and Isis. The idea behind that is to protect ourselves here, Jordan, Syria, in the long term goal.
I agree 100%. To work and to last, democracy has to be imported: (as in people without it, reaching out to attain it) rather than exported into a place it neither exists nor is particularly appreciated.
Provide help to Iraq to defend the govt in Iran? The same Iraq that is propping up Assad the Terrible in Syria and posing a threat to Israel’s existence? I think not. Have we not learned yet that the enemies of our enemies are not necessarily our friends?
Well, U.S. military assistance would have to come with concessions on the part of the majority Shiite government in Iraq, moreover, if the situation in Iraqi continues to escalate further you will have a far greater threat to deal with, i.e., ISIS wants to create a caliphate that will encompass, first, the Middle East and then possibly the rest of the world, in other words, this issue is not going to go away, it is only going to get worse if the International community, but more specifically the U.S. doesn’t do something strategically.
And I’m of the mind that it will increase, i.e., these are not people simply fighting for a pure theocracy, they want a CALIPHATE.
No, but they do have areas which are under their control, i.e., my point is simply that at one point or another the U.S. will have to intervene because it is not going to get better.
There was a power vacuum that was created when the U.S. pulled it’s troops out, i.e., they needed to stay longer in order for the area to stabilize.
ISIS is what Assad had to deal with. Assad opposed ISIS, while the USA was supporting the terrorists in Syria and opposing Assad. Now ISIS has amassed a huge amount of weapons sent by the USA. Things would have been a lot better if the USA had joined with Russia in supporting Assad and the Christians in Syria and then moving to make the reforms that Syria needed.
And power vacuums will always be filled.
For how many years should the USA send boys to give up their young lives to die in Iraq? Are you willing to give up your life to solve the centuries old warring between the various Islamic sectors? And how long should the American taxpayer be giving their hard earned money for these type of wars which go nowhere, but lead only to more massacres and destruction?
I agree with almost everything you’ve said, however, do they (the U.S.) necessarily have to cooperate with Iran, i.e., do they need Iran’s military help (maybe I’m being overly optimistic by believing it might not be necessary)?
How long will it be before we are dealing with a threat far worse than we’ve ever seen, i.e., this problem is not going to go away on it’s own, in fact, ISIS is committed to creating a caliphate?
So what option would you prefer then? Let Iran move in to help Iraq, and see Iran’s power and influence grow significantly in the region? Or let Iraq fall and have ISIL set up a huge Islamic terrorist state that has the expressed interest to expand further?
The USA could do it alone, but that would involve a very significant military intervention, including ground troops.I agree with almost everything you’ve said, however, do they (the U.S.) necessarily have to cooperate with Iran, i.e., do they need Iran’s military help (maybe I’m being overly optimistic by believing it might not be necessary)?
Let them solve their own problems instead of killing young American boys and bleeding the hard working American taxpayer. For how many more years is this thing going to go on? Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan have resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people, not to mention the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted. This money could have been used to help poor families in the USA who are struggling with the high costs of college education.