Syrian Kurds are close to declaring Independence

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Septic said:
Its not a zero sum game. The dichotomy of either only defending our own borders while we leave a vaccum for ISIS to flourish and expecting to remain safe is naive.
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Oh but it is a zero sum game. We only have a finite amount of troops and resources available. Throwing either of those into the sandbox will indeed take away from what can/should be done domestically.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Non-interventionism =/= isolationism

Being the world's police has not made us safer, it's had questionable results for the people we try to help, and it's bankrupting us. We fkn created ISIS. But at least we're "playing the game" I guess
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How can you be sure of that? I can't be sure it has but it's been 18 years since 9/11 without anything remotely as significant on our soil. I'm not suggesting that the correlation between taking the fight to them caused that, but it's worth mentioning.
 
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Septic said:
How can you be sure of that? I can't be sure it has but it's been 18 years since 9/11 without anything remotely as significant on our soil. I'm not suggesting that the correlation between taking the fight to them caused that, but it's worth mentioning.
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Uhhhh, why did 9/11 happen? Do you think we started being the world police after 9/11?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Oh but it is a zero sum game. We only have a finite amount of troops and resources available. Throwing either of those into the sandbox will indeed take away from what can/should be done domestically.
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No it's not, you're equivocating American SF troops advising and fighting with our allies with the whole of the US military defending our "borders". Call me when ISIS, is assaulting our shores from landing craft while halo jumping into D.C.
 
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Septic said:
How can you be sure of that? I can't be sure it has but it's been 18 years since 9/11 without anything remotely as significant on our soil. I'm not suggesting that the correlation between taking the fight to them caused that, but it's worth mentioning.
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There was anything remotely as significant as 9/11 in the previous 200+ years of our country.

Are we to expect to have troops over there another 18+ years?
 
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Septic said:
No it's not, you're equivocating American SF troops advising and fighting with our allies with the whole of the US military defending our "borders". Call me when ISIS, is assaulting our shores from landing craft while halo jumping into D.C.
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Keep talking... you're making my point better than I can.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Uhhhh, why did 9/11 happen? Do you think we started being the world police after 9/11?
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Were we occupying Syria and Afghanistan actively rooting out the Taliban and destroying the Al Qaeda network prior to 9/11?

I think 9/11 happened because of our relationship with Israel along with our "crimes" against muslims, it was a holy war... A 'fatwa' as OBL called it in his letter to America.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Keep talking... you're making my point better than I can.
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Then you don't understand why your dichotomy of one or the other makes no sense. I mean, we're already doing both, so your "this or that" failed before it left your fingertips.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
There was anything remotely as significant s 9/11 in the previous 200+ years of our country.

Are we to expect to have troops over there another 18+ years?
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Was there? No, it's a good thing we take the fight to our adversaries instead of waiting for it here.

Are we expected to have troops over there for 18 years? I don't know, is terrorism going to be a threat in 18 years? will leaving "over there" create a vacuum for another terrorist group to arise like ISIS did from Al Qaeda?
 
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Septic said:
Are we expected to have troops over there for 18 years? I don't know, is terrorism going to be a threat in 18 years? will leaving "over there" create a vacuum for another terrorist group to arise like ISIS did from Al Qaeda?
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So no end in sight as far as you are concerned. Thanks
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
My argument has been to NOT do both.
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I understand that, my argument is that doing both is working. We can do it and we are, one does not diminish from the other - as I stated, it's not a zero sum game.
 
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I'm all for washing my hands of the middle east and let Europe handle the mess. We can beef up our borders and immigration policies to keep out the radical muslims at a much lower cost than keeping our military spooled up over there.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Yes it is working, except that we're going bankrupt doing it.
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No argument there. The cost of the military is staggering - what's the cliche' "freedom isn't free"?

Let's not conflate the cost of the troops in Syria with the entirety of the U.S. defense budget.

There are only a few things I think the government should spend taxpayer money on and they don't go far past infrastructure and the military.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
So no end in sight as far as you are concerned. Thanks
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Nope.

Pretty sure the GOP and Trump blamed the rise of isis on Obama for leaving the ME too soon, I wonder if Trump will get the same blame?

Hopefully super-ISIS doesn't fill the void like every other antibiotic resistant infection that pops up.
 
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