Obama is about to ask for the largest Pentagon budget in history

[JonLP24]

60. There is an easier way

Unless the goal is for private defense contracts to make enormous profits than this is a success.

War means we're buying more oil From Saudi Arabia and its Eastern neighbors. The money & weapons they receive will be funneled back to ISIS. Second any war fought, civilians casualties, Fallujahs will create a chaotic environment as well as more indefinite detention & torture which will spur recruiting. Also, the bad move to install the Al-Maliki as PM of Iraq created this because he brutally oppressed & denied Sunni or Kurdish participation in the new government. Syra is a whole nother mess that won't be solved in the near future no matter who "wins" or "loses" that conflict.

As far as defeating ISIS. Stop propping up Wahabbi dictatorships would be a start but I like these women's suggestion who also show they understand the issue.

More arms and more bombs, they said, are not the answer.

They insisted that the only way to fight this extremist threat is to return to the negotiating table and hash out a peaceful political transition to heal the divisions ripping Syria apart.

“Oppression is the incubator of terrorism,” one woman told us as the group prepped for meetings with high-level officials in D.C. and New York. Her participation in peaceful protests during the early days of the revolution led to her two-month imprisonment in a four square meter room shared with 30 other women—yet she was adamant: “We cannot fight ISIS except through a political approach.”

So what do they recommend? To create stability (which is kryptonite to extremists), Syrian women say three things must happen.

First, humanitarian aid must get to the millions in grave need. Almost three million people are registered as refugees in neighboring countries and over six million are displaced inside Syria. That’s in a country with a pre-war population of just under 18 million. Approximately half of the remaining inhabitants live in extreme poverty.

In response to this disaster, the UN made an urgent appeal for $2.28 billion just to meet the critical requirements of the internally displaced. So far, Member States have committed only $864 million—a little over one-third of the total. Last month, the UN was forced to cut the delivery of food aid by 40 percent.

http://time.com/3513830/syrian-women-defeat-isis/

Gee, I just thought of a better use for all that money to be spent on. Out of $534 billion, we can't spare a few billion to actually help people?