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Do you understand how doctrine works? Degrading ISIS and avoiding civilian casualties aren't mutually exclusive things. My point is that if you think the US st
by knowaveragejoe 11y ago
Do you understand how doctrine works? Degrading ISIS and avoiding civilian casualties aren't mutually exclusive things.
My point is that if you think the US strikes have been ineffective, is because you don't know what "effective" looks like. You want to see many bombs drop and big explosions with not thought as to what that's actually accomplishing.
- merpnderp 11y agoI think you've lost sight of the original point. That Russia was degrading ISIS faster than the western coalition.
- knowaveragejoe 11y agoI guess we'll have to wait and see. I personally doubt it, not because I'm pro-western, but because I don't have faith in Russia's ability to do their due diligence in all facets of conducting war.
- lenkite 11y agoThe US only recently started targeting Oil trucks and rigs. For over a year, ISIS was making millions of dollars of oil money every month money via Turkey. The US was never serious about degrading ISIS. To me personally, it appeared to be just a time-holding tactic to get rid of old munitions and have a war on the cheap until Obama passed from office and could give the entire mess to his successor. It was only after the Russians started making the US look incompetent by flying more sorties in a couple of days then the US did in a month, did the US begin to start bombing in earnest. Even laughable is PBS showing footage of Russian bombing and claiming it to be American. http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/blogs/ombudsman/2015/11/23/bombs-away-russians-strike-isis-oil-but-pbs-gets-blasted/ http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/blogs/ombudsman/2015/11/23/bomb...
- knowaveragejoe 11y ago> It was only after the Russians started making the US look incompetent by flying more sorties in a couple of days then the US did in a month, did the US begin to start bombing in earnest. Source for this?