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Donald Ian Rankin

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6. Me, yes and no respectively.

Reply to samsingh (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 12:46 PM

Sep 2014

I think that ISIS will probably expand somewhat but not much more if the US does not intervene.

Yes, that will result in the deaths of a significant number of innocent people (but a significant number of innocent people will still die even if the US does intervene).

I do not think that the financial cost to the USA of not intervening would be large (although obviously the economic damage to the region will be colossal either way).

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The strong argument against attacking ISIS is not the lives, it's the money. [View all] Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 OP

That's the argument the Oilagarchs use leftstreet Sep 2014 #1

I don't think that was the point. Skidmore Sep 2014 #4

Did you read the whole post, or just the title? Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #5

The whole thing leftstreet Sep 2014 #8

Are you deliberately misunderstanding, or are you just unable to help it? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #12

The bottom line is that the ME will be a hotbed of turmoil as long Skidmore Sep 2014 #2

who believes that isis is going to stay confined unless samsingh Sep 2014 #3

Me, yes and no respectively. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #6

then maybe their neighbors should be concerned with confining them NightWatcher Sep 2014 #7

they are not confining them samsingh Sep 2014 #13

I wonder how much the Saudis and Israelis postulater Sep 2014 #9

Your speculation is kind of pointless because you don't rest it on any facts cali Sep 2014 #10

And there you have the real problem. Any action we take against ISIS is their key to recruiting more jwirr Sep 2014 #11

Say what??? GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #14

Sorry, let me remove some of those negatives. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #15