Should the US put "troops on the ground" to deal with ISIS?

[Wounded Bear]

18. The history of using conventional military forces against terrorism is not good...

There are precious few examples of success, unless you use the Roman method, which was basically to go in and kill everybody and start razing villages and towns, basically laying waste. Then you import good Roman citizens who will act 'properly.' Often, they would give the land to the soldiers who did the rampaging as a reward for their service.

The truth for modern times, we've already seen. Wars on terror end up with the opponent looking and acting no better than the groups they're trying to suppress. The only real way to fight it is too improve the lives of the people they operate among, which runs counter to the corporate meme. We cheered when the Afghan war 'broke' the Soviet Union, and then cheered again when we went in to repeat the same mistakes.

Ground troops need to come from the local national communities. If we go in, we'll just be "Imperialist invaders and occupyers".....again.