This Salty WW2 Marine Gives the Perfect Response to "You Can't Kill Off ISIS"

I really respect his opinion and he has points. Where it goes wrong is we DO have the drive to win. We WANT to win. But you cannot kill an ideology when they can dress like you, attend the same schooling as you, eat foods you believed they couldn't, and for all intents and purposes look like you. We make ourselves believe that these "mastermind" are all from the ME, live in the ME, and plot their ideals in the ME. If you believe that you are a fool. ISIS has been on record for having a recruiting and media campaign that would destroy anything comparable from the west. They've mastered the master. They also don't live in the ME. None of the really important figures do. We could kill every single person in manjams and still not scratch the surface of the problem. We won't go into Europe and kill the real heads behind ISIS because they work in private on their plans, but work in government positions or academia where "wacking" them would bring hellfire to us. Our SOF is the best IMO. Men hard as hell, can't do anything less than 150% of their effort, and we send a team of 10 to wack one of them. They're DAMNED good at what they do. With all the HVT's they've put in the ground or sea, why are we looking at three more popping up replacing what they dispatched? Dropping nukes? Sell that idea to Big Oil and see how far you get. Even with the oil and natural gas the US makes and exports, it still goes into the worldwide market and sold at those prices making Big Oil richer. Bush didn't do it, Obama didn't do it, and Trump for all the "pump me up" speeches won't do it either. If your enemy is willing to go through 50 layers of shit to get ONE person, and know they won't come back, but you have the worlds most well trained, equipped, and disciplined military and they can't make it through one layer to get 12, who won? When your "friend" is using the same tactics you used against them when they were in the Stan, are you going to invade the USSR.....opps I mean Russia and kill them? I'd go no problem if that decision was made, but lets be honest, we don't have the resources, the manpower, and even when we did reach our biggest troop levels, We were spread thin even then. In Russias case, we could easily beat the brakes off their military, but they would beat our asses like redheaded stepchildren in cyber and we have some VERY good people on our side. Can't fight without resupplies. GPS satellites have been hacked already. Planes have been hacked already, and ships have too. Good thing none of the military's vehicles are from Chrysler. They were hacked too. Money, bullets, and grand speeches won't solve the ISIS problem. Finding the money would. Identifying the real HVT's and going after them would. The hell with the local sheephearder with an attitude and AK claiming to be "important" to ISIS. He's not worth our time to get out of bed and go after. Leave the ME altogether. Dumb idea...Big Oil won't let that happen. So we're stuck in Nam pt2, and there is no comedy breaks in this extremely bad movie. This is reality tv at it's worst, where you will be killed, and not sit in a chair talking to a camera about your feelings. I would hate it so bad to see all of us here on RP who would gladly go back but due to sequestration cannot get back into the fight, see your kids grow up and wind up in that fight, then see your grandkids in that fight, just so we can have another "surge" and the very people who wanted to end it for their kids years ago, are the ones taking orders from their kids being no one wanted to think outside the box or really solve the problem due to an industry loosing money.
WW I was supposed to be the "War to end all wars".......what would Pershing say today if he knew how wrong that quote really turned out to be?

OOOHHHH Freakin Rah, If you kill enough of them then there wont be enough people with that sick mindset left to propagate their ideology. He makes a very good point that the fanatics of ISIS are very similar to the Imperial Japanese Army. I would argue that the Japanese were a tougher enemy because they would kill themselves rather than surrender. ISIS cant sustain a fixed battle, they simply dont have the resolve like the Japanese did.

Well sir you apparently are out of date on your sensitivity training. Just joking warrior. I. Eli eve you are correct and pray that one day we find the resolve to follow your advice.