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To: carranza2 who wrote (107027)	8/13/2014 3:47:51 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217764

Bashar al-Assad has played a fiendishly diabolical game in Syria. By concentrating his forces against the "moderate" rebels and allowing ISIS to thrive, his brinkmanship forces the hand of other players who now must deal with ISIS. Thus Team USA gives air cover to the Kurds.

To: carranza2 who wrote (107027)	8/13/2014 8:30:10 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217764

am concerned that underestimating isis / isil / folks flying black flags and same standards may lead to losses not only of oil, gas, water, and wheat, but as one might inadverdantly puncture bad cancer during an operation requiring pinpoint care, leading to spread that would require a lot of boots on the ground when such boots are busied elsewhere should the loss of population centres happen, and as hearts and minds are lost or paralysed, difficult - remember, at some juncture a nuke or two could be lost, and when / if so, ebola would be a preferred plague also problematic is that for anyone interested in tee-ing up biological warfare, the need for a fancy lab is no longer necessary, and am imagining that there are plenty of delivery modes available, some walking on two legs if the black-flagged folks have the 400+ million they supposedly captured at the mosul bank vault, then that would buy a lot of walking legs the issue of the caliphate is not that a war cannot be won against it. the issue is the all-in cost. not good. there are ignoramus cretins who would believe isis / isil is not a global threat, and such simply cannot fathom how many pairs of ebola-enabled legs several million can buy

To: carranza2 who wrote (107027)	8/21/2014 5:50:09 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

The ISIS thugs are on the same level as the hard-core Nazis, but don't presently have the capacity to do global harm. Oh.. given their stated aims and the methods by which they have demonstrated their willingness to carry them out, they are WORSE than the Nazis. And they are MUCH better financed and equipped than Bin Laden's Al Qaida ever was.. That said, I want to see regional gov'ts work together to deal with the threat, with the US remaining in the background providing support, ammunition, advising.. etc.. I don't want us doing Iran's dirty work, only to see Iraq return to even greater control by Iran over Iraq's Shi'a Arabs. I want to see the Anbar tribal leaders rise up (again) against ISIS, as they did against Zarqawi's predecessor group back in 2005-6. But they require the motivation by the Shi'a majority gov't of Iraq to do so. We have too many potential flash points that might require a major US presence (Europe, Asia.. etc) for us to send 100K soldiers to Iraq again.. Hawk