Dig in for a long war

After reading the link, I conclude that Kate is right. Bomb the oil wells. Make sure they never produce another barrel of oil. Once the easy money supply is cut off these countries will be less of a nuisance.

It's a dog's breakfast - best thing u can do is support the Kurds to the hilt.

They need to raise the number to four or five cups of tea (with a bathroom break of course) instead of just three. Better tea and higher water temp is just as effective as higher pay and better equipment.

I wonder how long it will be before ISIS gets their hands on some surface to air missiles and starts shooting back at the various air forces who are currently having a field day.

Of course we have to put "boots on the ground", every military tactician since planes were invented knows that, only fools like Obama imagine anything can be accomplished by air strikes only.

So, we stir up the wasp nest some more with air strikes, piss off more Muslims the world over, and see even more jihadists flock to the cause. Perhaps Westjet should start a Calgary to Fallujah daily flight to help out.

The big flaw in our tactics is,once we DO put troops in, we will force them to fight by the rules of chivalry,and again we will see our own soldiers called war criminals by our politicians and Press.

This is going to be interesting, brave soldiers,led by milquetoast politicians,versus dedicated savages.

Yeah, it will be a long war.

If I were a military planner, i'd put troops to support the kurds on the front line and relentlessly carpet bomb the interior. There is no one left in the interior of their territory worth saving anyways.

$25B training the Iraqi Army. Perhaps a quick read of this (http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars) article would have been useful before committing the money?

Before we go over there to fight islam we should be clearing them out of our own country first.

I wouldn't put a red bone hound, let alone a Canadian troop on the ground as long as that pack of fools in the Whitehouse have any say in setting the rules of engagement. Its an invitation for our guys to get smeared.

Actually air power can win this war. Just keep sending it long enough. The methods are sound. It's the will that's lacking.

Valerie Jarrett (the WH Iranian) has a plan to reset the Iran equation.. Iran could send in Ground troops and become the USA/ME white knight...The ME alliance will kill the militants, that makes the odd man out to be Israel.. I guess Israel could move into Putin's tent. The end game will be determined by Russia

The ground troops will come from Turkey or Iran and it will be Putin that will make that decision. We Americans are on the side lines with Obama & John Kerry's incompetent State Department most likely taking orders from Putin.

How can these people even exist? I thought President Merkin
Muffly declared them destroyed. He just changed their name
like North of 60. They are still there and they are a
bigger threat because Obonzo failed to follow up with an
enemy that was at one time nearly defeated.

By declaring the war over and the enemy defeated, he allowed
them to recruit and come back stronger than they ever were
in the Bush years.

I'm old school...how do we fight a war when the creeps don't wear uniforms?

Viet Cong anyone?

We win this war by keeping muslims out of the western world. Who cares what they do to each other over there, so long as they aren't here? The problem is that there are tens of millions of muslims living among us in the western world, with millions more showing up all the time and no government appears to even realize that this might be a problem.

Bluetech

Invariably this leads to a policy of "kill 'em all and let God sort them out."

Viet Nam, the Crusades, the Mongols......

It's just they way things go.

minuteman

The problem is PC multicultism and creating a voting block...and a big measure of stupidity....as big a cultural hurdle to us, as the arab culture that keeps them from winning wars.

"best thing u can do is support the Kurds to the hilt."
Yes. Back up the Kurds and give them weapons.

The Indians (Red dot type not the Woo woo type) had a quaint
custom of tossing a dead mans widow on his funeral pyre.
The proponents of this "Custom" were arguing that it was
an old tradition and that he should not do anything to
change it.

British Governor General Sir Charles Napier had this to say:

"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

These battles can be won, if a leader has resolve. Napier
was dead serious. Douglas MacArthur Sr. was highly effective
in dealing with Muslim terrorists in the Philippines. He dug
pits and lined them with the carcasses of pigs, lined them up
and machine gunned them.

It is all in how you word the message!