I wrote the stuff at the bottom soon after President Obama's speech on ISIL. I was too hasty in my thinking so I want to revise it a bit. I want to emphasize that I feel this will only work if powers in the region work together to figure this out. We can't bomb a solution from the air and US boots in the mideast only cause trouble. It is an extremely complex situation and there is no simple, fast, cheap solution. The old product joke about picking any two from quality, cost, and timeliness doesn't apply here. We stepped in it in 2003 by allowing idiots to run our policy and we have to be really really careful (really!) in whatever we do. This is not just a military problem and we need to look for much larger solutions.
Bottom:
Thank you Mr. President!
I am 100% behind your strategy as I heard it last night:
We provide supplies, intelligence, training. No Americans in combat.
The nations and groups that are directly affected in the area need to stand up and do the fighting.
You wisely ignore the people who got us into the Iraq mess and would dig
us deeper. It is an incredibly complex situation that they have shown
they have no clue about. When the US is directly involved, we make it
worse.
The people in the area need to decide their fate. We can influence them
and help the side we want to win but it will ultimately be determined by
the people in the Levant.
I pray that peace and respect are the result but it won't be easy or fast
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