No Way To Insert US Combat Troops Into The Middle East. It's Completely Nuts There.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Anyone who believes or says we should put boots on the ground in the Middle East should be committed to a rubber room. Every one is fighting everyone and alliances change like the wind. Who you are fighting with or for or against is questionable. The anarchy on the battle field is like a hall of mirrors.

In Tikrit the liberators seem to be as bad as ISIS. And in Syria the terrain is so surreal we would not know where to attacks for sure. And to add to the mayhem military forces or militias we are supposedly supporting threaten to attack our troops or leave the battlefield altogether in protest.

And the GOP seems to be determined to put our military into this mix master.

[gwheezie]

1. agree 100%%%%

We'd have to be nuts. Clearly we fucked it up over there for decades and any attempt we make to fix the mess has only added to the misery over there. We don't have a clue so to use the military now makes no sense.

[ronnie624]

3. Controlling energy and its markets is essential to global hegemony.

The allure of power and wealth is irresistible to those who crave it. As long as hydrocarbons are our primary source of energy, and the Middle East continues to contain important reserves, the violent interventions will doubtless continue.

[moondust]

2. Couple weeks ago

I saw a TV interview with a "fighter" in Iraq. He was probably in his late 40s or 50s. He said he has been fighting one enemy after another all his adult life.

I frankly don't know how all the "fighters" in the region know who the "enemy" is anymore, i.e. whom to shoot at.

Now ISIS fighters have taken most of a refugee camp in Damascus.

[still_one]

4. Ironically even Reagan realized that after 241 Marines were killed in Lebanon

Reagan immediately withdrew the American forces from Lebanon after the bombing.