ISIS starting to crumble in Iraq and Syria

I mean, you gotta go to Europe if your ultimate prize is Rome.

 

I'm pretty critical of Islam, but I'm not even willing to go Nazi comparison.

 

Well, let's see ... Even moderate Muslim nations don't grant full rights to women. The worst states brutalize them and being raped is not only your fault, but you're going to get stoned for it (always wonder where NOW is on this. Doesn't seem to bother them but they'll go nuts over a guy telling a sexist joke in the workplace).
Gays probably have it even worse.
Christians aren't welcome (or killed, such has happened in Pakistan today).
And extremists vow to finish Hitler's job.
Sounds worse than Nazism to me.

 

The reality on the ground is the reality on the ground. If IS is devolving in the Middle East, that is one important reason why they're now carrying out mass terrorist attacks in Europe. You can't not report it if it is indeed true, which as far as can be told it seems to be.

 

The problem is the seed has been sown in too many places and disaffected youth on Europe and quite possibly the U.S. They don't need orders from a command and control situation to carry out acts of terrorism. And as they've proven, it only takes four or five of those guys to wreck a whole lot of death and destruction.

 

The plan has been to assisting these countries to take care of their own housecleaning. Of course, being the Middle East, it's complicated. In this case, the Syrian regime is almost as bad as ISIS.

 

But, I mean, isn't this just REALLY a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran?

 

Syria is an all-skate that we don't need to get mixed up in overtly. Arm both sides and let them kill each other. (If you don't think we have special forces there doing that now under the table, you're kidding yourself.)

The refugee situation is unfortunate, but that's a humanitarian problem, not a military one, and one that Europe screwed the pooch on from jump.

 

That's pretty much America's foreign-policy Utopia. Let everybody kill each other, and we'll take advantage during the cleanup of all the wreckage.

Gave us a monster leg up on the rest of the world for the better part of the 20th century. When the rest of the world isn't in ruins, we don't seem to fare quite as well.

 

We're playing Risk with ourselves