re: #262 Dark_Falcon

At the level Obama is talking about, we should be able to keep supporting the fighting indefinitely. Maybe new government revenues will have to be found, but the US has a robust enough economy to hold the line.

And I’ve never said the US can destroy Radical Islamism. We can’t; Muslims have to do that. But if we want to keep what we hold dear, we’re going to have to fight to buy them the time to do the hard political and cultural work needed to end Radical Islamism.

I hear you, TP, I really do. But we can’t just ‘declare peace’ and walk away. ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their ilk will not let us do that in the long run. They want to conquer the whole world, TP, not just those nations that are currently Muslim.

ISIS has done more damage to its standing than our bombs have. The discussion we do not seem to be having, in fact seem to junk every time a beheading has happened, is “Is ISIS as strong as it makes itself out?” And from all appearances, the answer is “No.” They do not have the manpower to control the land they claim as theirs and the only way they seem capable right now of maintaining power is through the threat of violence. So every time we engage in a fever dream about how ISIS is going to attack us and carry out another 9/11, we lose sight of just how pathetic they really are.