Does General Mattis favor boots on the ground to defeat ISIS?

That scenario is extremely unlikely. Iran's military ranks 21st on the world's scale, but she has a formidable military. I doubt Russia would want to tangle with Iran militarily.

 

There is that and the fact that Iraq was never stable and self-reliant after Bush's illegal invasion. Fred puts too much stock in Obama's comments at the time. Those comments were somewhat fanciful and the usual crap you get when a politician wants to make himself look good.

 

Russia would go through Iran like sh it through a goose.

 

Interesting scenario. I, too, am a believer of peak oil, but I doubt life as we know it will cease to exist by 2030.

 

I like your viewpoints. I sure hope you are right. Please join my newest discussion, "Obama administration's puzzling vote in the Security Council."

 

Maybe, but it would be a costly war for Russia. Iran vs. Russia? We can only dream.

 

It's not just the comments it was his actions as well. And of course the Democrats agreed with the move and applauded it. Jhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/11/joe-biden/biden-romney-called-ending-iraq-war-tragic/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitteroe Biden spoke on the subject as did Mitt Romney. The record is all there.

The carnage we see in the Mid East now is a direct consequence of Obama' decision to pull the troops, and of course he took all the credit at the time saying he "ended the war in Iraq". Only later, when he the many thousands of lives lost, did he claim it was a result of a SOFA. That was clearly false.

 

Well, if you believe what AboveAlpha will tell you, which I do, we'll have fusion power in the 2030s so that means less fossil fuel use. Fusion power plants means battery powered cars. We'll still use oil though because we need materials that are made from oil. Well, until quantum materials get invented that replace them, if that's possible.

 

Well thank you very much I will check it out.

AA

 

Lockheed Martin has now had 5 successful tests of it's Low Temp. Micro Fusion Generators and unless something really stupid happens we should see large numbers of Fusion Plats being built in the U.S. in the later half of the 2020's.

AA

 

True but our economy is not dependent upon Energy Export sales like Russia.

AA

 

My brother says that since it means we'll use less oil he knows we're not going to use it. It will never be used for the common man.

I guess the oil cartels are that powerful.

On second thought he says that Fusion power needs to be powerful enough to power the robot revolution or else it fails.

 

Well we are at a point where our technology is such that we need better power supplies and that is one thing that will help drive Fusion Tech.

AA

 

On this issue we will agree to disagree. However, I tend to think that the people who live in the Middle East are to blame for the carnage in the Middle East. I find it difficult to understand why Obama is to blame for Muslims killing Muslims and destroying their own cities as a consequence.

Who was to blame for our Civil War? The Russians? Or us?

 

I just looked it up. Fusion power is a euphemism for nuclear power. I'm not sure I agree with you and AA. Admittedly, I know very little about the topic.

 

OK.....look currently our Nuclear Reactors use Nuclear Fission and we use Rods of Uranium that due to this process heat up water that turns turbines and generates electrical power.

Fusion is the process of fusing Hydrogen Atoms into Helium and there is no radioactive waste like there is in Fission is spent Uranium Reactor Rods stay deadly radioactive for 100's of thousands of years.

AA

 

I see. I recall reading it doesn't work. It requires more energy to produce fusion than the process provides. I guess that is why it is in the future.

 

War has already been declared against the United States as well as Europe. This is simply not a Middle East War - it is international and it will be a long battle.

Those Muslims being killed are not part of a long term plan. It is Islamism against 'moderate' Muslims, just as it is Islamism against us. Their leaders are saying the same thing and there is no reason why we should doubt them.

There is no 'civil war' going on.

 

No such thing as spent fuel rods. Fuel rods contain 10% or less of U235 and 90% U238. When enough of the 235 is used up the rod can be reprocessed to get back up to 10%. Also Plutonium is made which can also be used as fuel.

 

You make it sound like a nation or nations are an existential threat to the U.S. Ergo, a world war. That simply is not true. Iran is incapable of such a feat. As for ISIS, that is a law enforcement and intelligence issue, not a military one. I sure hope Trump doesn't think like you do. We could end up with a real mess if he does.

Muslims are killing Muslims. That is a fact. They have been doing it for centuries and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. Islamic terrorist organizations kill more Muslims than any other ethnicity. That is not our problem.

"There is no 'civil war' going on." Really? You should catch up on your reading of Syria.

 

The threat is Islamism and not from one source. And it is international. Check Qaddafi in Libya, and he was seldom thought of as an religious fanatic, and those present. Although we in the west may look at borders as territorial divisions the Islamists don't see it that way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCGYKSEsYFM

The 'mess' has already begun and you can see acts of terror already happening throughout the world. It doesn't matter who the leader are because they will change, as will their philosophies. This is not the case with the Islamists.Already the democracies have made many changes in our laws and culture which have been directly effected by Islamism.

The Islamists will kill Muslims just as they'll kill Jews, Christians, Atheists, Agnostics or those of whatever political wing you may be on. All you have to do i read what they're saying and predicting. The video in this post will help.

What's really going on in Syria is an international war, as you can readily tell by the participants involved.

 

I am aware of that the term Spent is specific to the point at which the Rod must be removed.

It is a well known and well used term.

AA

 

We have had Fusion Breeder Reactors online for many decades and the issue is CONTAINMENT!!

Fusion generates enormous amounts of energy and heat and well more than what is required to generate Fusion.

The problem is the amount of heat makes it very difficult to contain and Lockheed Martin is using the smallest technologically possible at this time number of Hydrogen Atoms and fusing them into Helium.

This is not Cold Fusion as we cannot do that if ever but Low Temp. Micro Fusion as the process is still Thermonuclear but since so small a number of Hydrogen Atoms are being fused into Helium it allows containment and this will be the wave of the future.

I am assuming they are using a Laser to generate Fusion but the process is Highly Classified in the extreme!!

AA

 

So do you think you can stop obsessing about Russia long enough to use all that clever technology against our real enemy?

 

Russia really is not a threat other than the nukes and Russia is not going to use those.

The Russian Military is absolutely no match for the U.S. Military never mind adding NATO to that equation.

The problem is Obama did not make it clear that the U.S. would increase oil production so high when Russia annexed the Crimea that it collapsed the Russian economy and if Putin was clearly communicated this he would never have done it!!!

Trump is someone Putin knows he cannot get away with such things.

AA