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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 01:05 PM Sep 2014

For those supporting the President's plan to fight ISIS: What if.... [View all]

Just a likely hypothetical.

What if, 18 months from now, things are much the same in Iraq and Syria, despite bombing ISIS and training Syrian opposition groups? In other words, ISIS holds onto the territory it's taken or even expands its territory in Iraq and Syria. There are now millions more refugees and thousands more deaths, both from ISIS forces and from U.S. bombing.

Will you still support the mission? Do you believe that the mission should be changed to reflect that it hasn't been effective in curtailing ISIS? What changes would you support? Increased bombing? Boots on the ground?

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