re ISIS: Sometimes turning the other cheek is not an option. [View all]

[climber3986]

Lets be clear, US involvement in the middle east is without a doubt the worst foreign policy disaster in the past 25 years. Bush trying to export democracy was a terrible idea and caused the problem in the first place, we need to stay out of the middle east except on the most rare of occasions. That being said, ISIS is one of the very rare exceptions to the rule.

Lets wind the clock back a year. Remember this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/isis-kobani-kurds_n_5926102.html

ISIS was surrounding entire cities and exterminating everyone inside. I see people saying on this forum saying 'we need to stop bombing and start diplomacy.' Yes that is absolutely true, we need to get out of Afghanistan and begin diplomacy. We need to put a muzzle on the every republican in congress trying to sabotage the iran nuclear deal. We need to stop drone strikes in Pakistan. 99% of the time, diplomacy is the answer. For ISIS, it is not. We stopped the genocide of Kobani with force.

Please answer for me this:

If ISIS has a city surrounded and plans to exterminate everyone inside because they are not 'muslim' (ISIS isn't muslim we all know that, however I am referencing their state of mind here). What would you do? Nothing?

Try to negotiate with them? As they being lining people up in the dirt and shooting them in the back of the head with an ak47 do you change negation tactics?

This groups goal is to conquer every country in the middle east and then expand on to Europe. With what would you negotiate with? While that goal is a joke that will never happen, what WILL happen and is still happening now is the extermination of entire cities and villages of people who they run across. Saying 'its not our problem' and letting genocide happen when we caused the instability in the first place is irresponsible.

Some people are just plain evil and cannot be negotiated with.