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So I'm thinking while watching Jurassic Park this evening on Tivo - What's a forum for if we can't come up with a few strategies for dealing with the IS?
And let's try not to bash Obama too much. I like him, but damn he can be annoying sometimes. Sort of like if we took someone from 'The Big Bang Theory' and asked them to figure out what to do in the Mideast.
To get rolling, of all the poor choices in the region - I like the Kurds best and think we should support them as much as we can.
Secondly.
There's not much we in the US can do to prevent all the funding Europeans give to the terrorists by going there and then getting themselves held for ransom. The US policy is to not pay terrorist ransom demands. This seems unfair to the people who are kidnapped and happen to be Americans. They get killed as an example to the European governments to pay up or this is what will happen to their citizens.
But we could have a policy something like - if they kidnap someone and ask for say 10 million in ransom - we should immediately do 10 million worth of damage to something they want. Oh, bomb a convoy or traffic checkpoint in Mosul or something. I sort of am attracted to the idea of not wringing our hands helplessly but actually doing something in proportion to what is done to us. Of course, that's what they say they are doing.
But we are the good guys and they are the bad guys, and something that goes with the good guy role is not acting like indecisive wusses.
So I'm thinking while watching Jurassic Park this evening on Tivo - What's a forum for if we can't come up with a few strategies for dealing with the IS?
And let's try not to bash Obama too much. I like him, but damn he can be annoying sometimes. Sort of like if we took someone from 'The Big Bang Theory' and asked them to figure out what to do in the Mideast.
To get rolling, of all the poor choices in the region - I like the Kurds best and think we should support them as much as we can.
Secondly.
There's not much we in the US can do to prevent all the funding Europeans give to the terrorists by going there and then getting themselves held for ransom. The US policy is to not pay terrorist ransom demands. This seems unfair to the people who are kidnapped and happen to be Americans. They get killed as an example to the European governments to pay up or this is what will happen to their citizens.
But we could have a policy something like - if they kidnap someone and ask for say 10 million in ransom - we should immediately do 10 million worth of damage to something they want. Oh, bomb a convoy or traffic checkpoint in Mosul or something. I sort of am attracted to the idea of not wringing our hands helplessly but actually doing something in proportion to what is done to us. Of course, that's what they say they are doing.
But we are the good guys and they are the bad guys, and something that goes with the good guy role is not acting like indecisive wusses.
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