The US Military only has a 7% chance of defeating ISIS!

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  1. ArmySoldier

    ArmySoldier Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I wish you the best of luck on your future endeavors, debating military items with your zero % knowledge of how it works.

    Refer back to the US mission in Syria for role clarity. Earlier you made a post that goes against the US mission. But that's fine, you'll get there.
     
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    I spend my time worrying about getting old and dying of Alzheimer's
     
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    Derideo_Te Well-Known Member

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    Irony cubed!
     
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    What form and from which sources would that backlash be from? Surely there can't be any country that supports Islamic State and its fellow travellers? I think if the US could do the job it they would have done so by now and ignored any criticism. The fact that it hasn't but Russia has speaks volumes.
     
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    Human rights watch. We'd be eliminating a ton of civilians.
     
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    >>The US Military only has a 7% chance of defeating ISIS!<<

    No.


    Who is operating against the odds? ISIS is. They'll be defeated.

    "Boot believes lessons can be learned if only we look at history the right way. The war in the shadows may be here to stay, but we should not despair, he insists, because even now the odds are against the insurgents, provided armies tackle the job with patience, good sense and a consciousness of the importance of winning over hearts and minds. Terror, after all, is often self-defeating. I think Elbridge Colby would have approved."

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/books/review/invisible-armies-by-max-boot.html
     
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    Their supply of funds needs to be blocked too.
     
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    We can EASILY wipe out ISIS as long as the Asshat's in Dc listen to those of us who know what we are doing!!

    AA
     
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    It's difficult when the opposition use guerrilla tactics and aren't above using non combatants.
     
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    It would be easy.

    All we need is the Green Light and the Political Will!!

    Large numbers of U.S. Special Forces as well as Special Teams and CIA Teams on the ground directing strikes as well as grabbing targets as well as massive drone operations.

    AA
     
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    I always admired the can do attitude of Gen. Pershing in the Philippines.
    He didn't fool around.
     
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    Ahhh....the old Pigs Blood thing right?

    AA
     
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    Pretty primitive but effective. You have to wonder how many more enemies were made for the US with this.
     
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    This is a really old thread.
     
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    Looks like @WillReadmore bumped this.

    Funny !!
     
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    Meanwhile the Russians are defeating the Syrian rebels and the Iraqis are defeating ISIS on their own.

    When the renegade Iraqi soldiers who comprise ISIS are defeated by their Iraqi brothers who work for the government then this rash of cutting off heads will be over and the renegades will all be killed. A few of them may try to give up but that is not their style. ISIS mostly keeps running until they are shelled out of their rat holes.
     
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    They are all to PR nowadays for that type of thing but it was very effective,

    They did name 2 different Intermediate Range Tactical Nuclear Missiles the Pershing I and Pershing II after the General and the 108 Pershing II's we deployed in West Germany were so accurate and so fast we could have decapitated the Soviet Nuclear Command and Control so fast they would not have had time to respond.

    AA...p.s.....had an East German girlfriend for a time.
     
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    Ahh, East German girls. Like mrs Merkel and that girl in billion dollar baby who paralysed Hilary swank?
     
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    I was one of very few American's who were allowed into East Berlin back in the day.

    I had some members of the Stasi who I would grab Blue Jeans and Car Stereo's with cassette players as they did not have CD's there back then.

    The East German Stasi or Secret Police were very feared but they HATED the Russian's as the Russian's would come in and just take over everything they might be working on.

    It is all about finding LEVERAGE be it a girl or other.

    AA
     
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    East Germany sounded a very bleak place before reunification. I work with an East German woman who'd migrated as a ten year old. I don't know if it were here upbringing or her genes, but she was very miserable person.
     
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    Yup.

    Real dismal place.

    Much different now.

    AA
     
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    There is a poster who says he's East German and he is insufferably arrogant and racist. Are they different or is this person just a mouthy youth?
     
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    How did you morph over to E.Germany from ISIS ??
     
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    Miracles of modern communication.
     
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    We used the same EIT and EIM on both of them!!

    AA
     
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