Does anyone think ISIS might be able to invade the U.S. ?

[Agnosticsherbet]

12. You mean project sufficient military force across the Atlantic or Pacific in the face of a nuclear

armed US with the most modern war fleet in the world? No.

ISIS could certainly instigate attacks in the US as they have in Europe, Egypt, Libya, and Lebanon.

For the foreseeable future, the threat from ISIS is extremist cells recruited here from among disaffected and unemployed poor youth who would make attacks like those on Charlie Hebdo, Copenhagen, Libya, Lebanon, and Egypt.

I suspect that the first time ISIS cells attack a church, synagogue, theater, government building, or free speech rally. a majority of Americans will demand that the US invade and kill every last one of them.

To me, it makes better sense to support allies in the region that are becoming more and more willing to hunt them down and kill them, as ISIS is an existential threat to Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.

NOTE: I did not mention Israel because even though ISIS is an existential threat to Israel, the above countries would rather have their entire populations burned to death in cages before they openly allied with Israel.

NOTE: Shia Iraq and Iran would also be unlikely to form an alliance with the Suni countries. ISIS considers all Shia Muslims guilty of apostasy, which is punishable by death.