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2014-09-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Is it too risky for the U.S. to bomb ISIS inside Syria right now?

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 You need to choose your friends very carefully because you do not get to choose your enemies.

That being said, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, particularly when my enemy is a ghastly horde of sadists bent on creating mass casualties in the US.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-01 00:34|| 2014-09-01 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Is it too risky for the U.S. to bomb ISIS inside Syria right now?

Depends. Do we have any balls left?

Posted by gorb 2014-09-01 02:04|| 2014-09-01 02:04|| Front Page Top

#3 question is, isis working for saudi/turkey or syria?

Posted by Paul D 2014-09-01 03:15|| 2014-09-01 03:15|| Front Page Top

#4 There can be a ground component to precision bombing. If you're unwilling to commit the ground component, your potential default is dumb bombs which entail a much larger footprint and commitment. Don't want to chance hitting any of those.... "moderates."

The other possibility is Vlad simply waved him off by threatening other mischief.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-01 03:49|| 2014-09-01 03:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Long as they [US bombers] keep their distance from the Golan heights...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-01 04:15|| 2014-09-01 04:15|| Front Page Top

#6 It should never be considered too risky to kill bad guys. There is another option: kill all factions in Syria. And then kill them when they scatter.

Posted by Airandee 2014-09-01 06:37|| 2014-09-01 06:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Barak Hussein Obama has plans and friends already formed in his post-Presidency plans of worldwide fame and prestige. Anything that keeps him from the planed UN leadership role and the large living he sees as his due is unacceptable. He will blather and pontificate and drive domestic politics to enable a permanent one-party rule, and reward his friends with acts of deferred compensation graft, as long as it help "his" people, not the American people. What a disaster this man has been! But act decisively as a "colonial" power, never....

Posted by NoMoreBS 2014-09-01 12:54|| 2014-09-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 particularly when my enemy is a ghastly horde of sadists bent on creating mass casualties in the US.

But enough about the Democratic Party and their love-affair with Abortion. I thought this was about Isis.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-09-01 13:40|| 2014-09-01 13:40|| Front Page Top

#9 CrazyFool...LMAOROFL

I can remember a story about a US Company Commander whose forces became "Comingled" with the NVA forces attacking...sort of a eyegouging, e-tool. fist, and K-Bar brawl...and he called in close air support.

The LOAC asked where he wanted them put and the Commander replied...just drop them anywhere, God will have to sort out the body count on this one...

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-01 17:23|| 2014-09-01 17:23|| Front Page Top

#10 The last thing we want to do is bomb the wrong flavor of bad guys.

Posted by SteveS 2014-09-01 21:34|| 2014-09-01 21:34|| Front Page Top

#11 HHHMMMM, HHHHMMMMM, wehell, lets see now ....

As per CNN AM, DIANE FEINSTEIN argues that the Bammer's cautious foreign policy is perhaps TOO CAUTIOUS???

* FREEREPUBLIC, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SAUDI KING WARNS [ISIS/ISIL] JIHADISTS COULD ATTACK US, EUROPE WIDIN MONTHS.

ONE MONTH to attack EUROPE, TWO MONTHS for the USA.

* WORLD NEWS > [Times of India] ISIS RECRUITS PLANNING 26/11 [Mumbai] ATTACK IN UK.

VERSUS

* TOPIX > [Arab Times] ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS BEGIN TO BLEND IN, DEFEATING THEM IS NO EASY MATTER.

ISIS responds to US airstrikes wid more decntralized flexibility + discretion.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-01 22:48|| 2014-09-01 22:48|| Front Page Top

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