Is ISIS going to be a Threat to America? If you think they are? DO you feel that our Military should be getting involved now?

Sgt Vance Bonds they say we have no strategy for the radical expansion (explosion) of Islam. Please tell me what you think of mine. First, we lock up all the current politicians until we can investigate whether or not they are guilty of treason or not. If found guilty we give them a send off via firing squad. Then we change the rules of engagement since several Muslim acquaintances of mine have told me that there is no radical Islam only Islam and there are children attacking our soldiers with rocks. If they are hiding behind innocents we send them all to Allah. If they are in their Mosques using it as a religious shield then we target it and send them all to Allah. If they persecute other religions then we persecute them until they beg for peace. The rules of engagement get redefined so that more of our people come home and more of theirs go to meet Allah. Bullets soaked in pigs blood or bacon fat. We hit them hard and keep hitting them until the desire to fight is beaten out of them and the religion of peace becomes something they desire (peace) instead of some fallacious name that alludes to their conquering the world. Any men that are captured and still defiant we send back as women and see how they like the way they are treated, thus improving the life of a Muslim woman. And we start taking offense and reacting as easy as they do. After being on the receiving end for a while maybe they will learn forgiveness and tolerance. Also, any Muslim who cannot adopt to a life as an American on US soil gets forcibly relocated back to any land under Sharia because if they want to argue about it here we can allow them to enjoy it somewhere else. Are there any problems I have not addressed?

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Not bad. I was thinking along those lines as well. War IS Hell. If in a war, you must be prepared to be more violent with less tolerance than the enemy. I'm currently deployed and I hear of the limp and impotent way we are looking to the secure future of our nation and our families

Uhm...no. It has never been possible in any acceptable way to kill everyone who raises a hand against us. Nor is it morally acceptable. We can't fight a fourth generation enemy using first generation tactics, because in the here and now, say we DID kill every enemy combatant in the Middle East...using any method that currently exists, we will also kill a bunch of people just trying to get by, whose relatives will then feel right pissed, and some of them will take it out on us...and our loved ones in ways we won't like.

Did the US fail to achieve political objectives in Vietnam because we couldn't project enough combat power? Or perhaps it was because the combat operations were constrained by political expedience?

Neither is accurate.

The US failed to achieve objectives because no workable plan to achieve political objectives existed, thus, our plan consisted of: kill as many of them as we can.

Here's the rub on that: they can always make more than we can kill. And if we kill unjustly, we have compromised who we are for a bogus objective. And we've made still more enemies.

The US simply cannot afford another 15 years of conventional combat operations.

what this guy said! Right on.