PO1 Private RallyPoint Member 255041 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was watching the news last night and a couple of the people thought we should use U.S. ground forces instead of the Syrian and Iraqi ground forces. Is it a need that we send in our troops? Or do we just continue with the air strikes? 2014-09-25T10:00:01-04:00 PO1 Private RallyPoint Member 255041

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was watching the news last night and a couple of the people thought we should use U.S. ground forces instead of the Syrian and Iraqi ground forces. Is it a need that we send in our troops? Or do we just continue with the air strikes?

2014-09-25T10:00:01-04:00 2014-09-25T10:00:01-04:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 255042

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We will have to be involved. We need to develop a coalition since COIN operations take a decade or more to be effective, but I can not see any force out there that can take on ISIL alone.

2014-09-25T10:00:44-04:00 2014-09-25T10:00:44-04:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 255203

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Iraqi troops aren’t up to the fight, for whatever reason. Cultural, tribal/religious/ideological loyalties, or just an inability to wrap their heads around the idea. Training them for combat operations/COIN/stability operations is going to take a ground presence. Anyone that says otherwise is lying, ignorant, or delaying the inevitable truth.

2014-09-25T12:26:49-04:00 2014-09-25T12:26:49-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 289329

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Iraq 3.0

2014-10-22T19:16:52-04:00 2014-10-22T19:16:52-04:00 Maj Mike Sciales 1038796

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I'd pull back from the airstrikes and concentrate on humanitarian aid because it'll get worse before it gets better. It's become clear that Moscow is interested in getting into the fight. Putin wants prestige to mitigate economic problems at home. He's been a patron of Syria since he's been in power and so were all those leaders before him going back to Khrushchev. Syria is of strategic importance to Moscow. Putin has the will and the troops (they don't hold policy debates over there) to go after any enemy of al Assad. He isn't shy about embedding combat troops with Syrian forces. His pilots will take over leading strikes. His Spetnaz will work with the Army. We really don't understand the region and our foreign policy isn't really very good in this area. So let Moscow bleed some billions of dollars and lives. Our money is better spent helping the 4 million displaced people.

2015-10-13T23:58:41-04:00 2015-10-13T23:58:41-04:00 2014-09-25T10:00:01-04:00