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In reply to the discussion: I'm tired of bloodthirsty people. [View all]SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)If ISIS won't talk we ask who wants our protection from ISIS and we go in and protect them. ISIS has according to all reports approx 30,000 members. Are you telling me that our 1.4 million soldiers, 8,000 tanks, 2000 fighter jets, 10 aircraft carriers, thousands of surface to air missiles, hundreds of drones, and 5000 Nuclear warheads cannot protect Syrian and Iraqi towns from 30,000 ISIS members? If that's true then we need to rethink our fucking military.
Why has war become "pro-active"? Is this a "pre-crime" world where we attack people because of something they might do in the future? What ever happened to having an army to defend yourself with? When is the last time our army was actually used to Defend America? And I don't mean that "protecting our freedoms" bullshit.
I don't see this as us "defending" anyone. I see it as us protecting our interests in the middle east. If we were so worried about Sharia Law then we would not be kissing the hand of Saudi Arabia.