Houshphandzadeh wrote:Heritage Foundation recently wrote a white paper in support of pushing back the three point line

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Heritage Foundation recently wrote a white paper in support of pushing back the three point line

What should we do? Precisely.

1. Launch an integrated global counterideology war against ISIS/Al-Qaeda: I call it Counter Ideology Operations and Warfare (CIDOW). We need to confront the belief system head on. The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic. Soon enough, ISIS will do something that enrages the entire Muslim world and it will force them to act. Burning the Jordanian pilot came close, but we shall see what lifts the veil from their eyes.

2. In Iraq, Go Commando: We are relying too much on massed army units in Iraq to bring overwhelming power to defeat small units. ISIS won by using 20 guys in Toyotas and taking key points. The Iraqis should be using small units with high mobility to get all over the ISIS rear and U.S. airpower to kill anyone that comes near them.

3. The Gulf Cooperation Council needs to invade Yemen with ground forces, like, yesterday: The Saudis are fighting the wrong war right now with the Houthis in Yemen. They are allowing AQAP to take South Yemen and all of their weapons. So we now have a well-armed and funded al-Qaeda caliphate rising on the Arabian Peninsula, thanks to the Saudi Iranian obsession. They view the Iranians as a sabre at arm’s length, and it makes them blind to the ISIS/AQ dagger at their throat. Solve it all by coming down through Oman, land troops in Aden and take control of the country. Someone has to, and soon.

4. The Pan-Arab war to Stop ISIS/AQ is coming: The Jordanians, Saudis, and Turks must invade Syria. Soon enough, ISIS will kill someone prominent in the Muslim world or carry out an act so barbarous (like in Mecca or Istanbul) that Riyadh or Ankara will be forced to do something.

5. Encourage Syrian army units to defect and make Assad leave power with assurances that Alawites, Christians, and Druze will be protected. This will wedge ISIS from North, South and East and it will be defeated. It’s a bloody option but it is their problem in the end.

6. Egypt will eventually have to invade Libya. The country is essentially Beirut 1982 with competing factions. The Benghazi government with General Heftar in command is trying to bring unity, but now ISIS-Libya has appeared and the vacuum requires a major force to fill it. After massacring the Egyptian workers in Libya, the Egyptians have cause and should back up a Libyan spearhead. Establish a proper army, pay off the tribes, eliminate ISIS and then leave.

7. Israel should focus on preventing ISIS, not screwing around with Hamas. Israel will need Hamas soon enough if the ISIS/AQ ideological virus infects Palestine. The Israelis won’t have to worry about hundreds of rockets they will have to worry about thousands of suicide bombers. They’ll be getting attacked like the Jerusalem scene from World War Z.

8. Conclude the Iran Nuclear Weapons Deal: Iran wants BMWs, Red Bull, and Gucci. There are no military options for Iran. Attack them and they will destroy the Gulf States oil industries, rain hundreds of missiles onto Israel, close the Arabian Gulf, and shoot oil prices to $300 per barrel, which could cause our own economic downfall. I have fought Iran twice in the Persian Gulf, they are not the Iran of 1988. They are the global terror A-Team and now they want peace. Give it to them.

9. Enjoy the end of Boko Haram in Nigeria: That group will cease to exist in less than a month. The Nigerian, Chadian, Burkina-French coalition just finally did to Boko what the Arabs need to do to ISIS. Full court press, all sides and eliminate them. I will be glad to see the end of this group and their leader Abu Bakr Shakau. They truly are cult monsters. Kenya and Ethiopia may have to take note.

None of my recommendations are optimal, and each is fraught with possible failure, but right now doing nothing is failing spectacularly. But the Muslim world needs to tackle the ISIS/AQ problem, because if they don’t, the existential threat to both Israel and Arab World won’t be Iran.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:he bailed out the banks and let everyone off scot-free, setting it up so the same thing will happen again in the not-too-distant future. he didn't have to do that

TenuredVulture wrote:Hot take: (am I doing this correctly?) The basic argument in favor of HRC's somewhat checkered past was there couldn't be anything new. Now there is. The HRC haters won't care about this except as confirmation of their existing beliefs, the Ready for Hillary folks will just see this as yet another example of how women are put down or whatever. The key problem here as I see it is the large number of folks, moderates and the left, who have been at best lukewarm about Hillary will see this as another reason to hope someone else enters the Democratic primary.

Launch an integrated global counterideology war against ISIS/Al-Qaeda

Soon enough, ISIS will do something that enrages the entire Muslim world and it will force them to act.

The Gulf Cooperation Council needs to invade Yemen with ground forces

The Jordanians, Saudis, and Turks must invade Syria.

Encourage Syrian army units to defect

and make Assad leave power

with assurances that Alawites, Christians, and Druze will be protected.

Egypt will eventually have to invade Libya

Establish a proper army, pay off the tribes, eliminate ISIS and then leave.

jerseyhoya wrote:Five Questions about the Clintons and a Uranium Company

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drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Five Questions about the Clintons and a Uranium Company

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SOMEbody did not hear Werthless just say that this story does not have LEGZ

Werthless wrote:That's not what I meant. The story could have legs among media members, but it's only going to affect votes if campaign finance becomes a meaningful issue, which HRC is ironically trying to do.