The Rude Pundit - Note to Iraq War Supporters: Eat Shit and Then We Can Talk About ISIS

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14. My hope is there is enough containment from the air strikes that nothing more need to be done.

At least any time in the immediate future.

Maybe if we blow up their tanks and artillery they'll think twice about trying to continue on with small arms.

Maybe if we blow enough of their command and control headquarters to bits, the leaderless group that's left won't quite know how to proceed.

Maybe if a few training centers are destroyed, there won't be the free flow of new Islamists into the ranks to keep feeding their war frenzy.

Maybe we can slow them down for a while.

That's about the best that can be done, though.

And maybe attrition will get the rest.

I opposed the Iraq war, mostly because ISIL was a very easily foreseen consequence of that clusterfuck when we could have done what we always did in the past with tin pot dictators who turned on us. Which is to say, whisper in some general's ear about how HE culd ahve the power and hold the cards to reign supreme in that country with just a little push from us, some money here, some well placed assets there, and once again the tin pot dictator of the country is at least somewhat receptive to us maintaining the status quo for another generation or two.