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To: Sam who wrote (284352)	12/2/2015 12:56:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541695

"50-60k well trained troops to Iraq for about 2-3 months to get rid of ISIS once and for all." Israel has 160,000 troops, along with over 600,000 reserves. Why don't they do it, instead of inciting others? It's their neighborhood.

To: Sam who wrote (284352)	12/2/2015 9:35:32 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541695

I don't know if that's better or worse than this proposal: Speaking on Israeli radio on Sunday, Shabtai Shavit, a former chief of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the international coalition that has been fighting the Islamic State for more than a year must “stop talking and start doing.” He continued: “With this enemy, we have to push aside arguments on law, morality and comparisons of security and the rights of the individual. That means to do what they did in World War II to Dresden. They wiped it off the map. That is what has to be done to all the territorial enclaves that ISIS is holding.” Unsaid, though, were the thousands of deaths of civilians in Dresden. That from nytimes.com . I guess in the small favors department, at least he didn't say Hiroshima. The Israelis do have extensive experience in this kind of thing from their periodic Lebanon invasions. Those all seemed to work out well.