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What makes you think taking out ISIS is not an achievement?

• canadian_voter 10y ago
  They got all of ISIS with one bomb? Good job, promotions all around.
  • snowpanda 10y ago
    Semantics...
    • mankash666 10y ago
      I'm ALL for taking out ISIS. But, with carpet bombing huge areas, the likelihood of unintended collateral damage is very high. Which brings us to the general attitude of the U.S. in war - "When it comes to innocent lives, only U.S. lives matter!!" There's ZERO chance that the U.S. would tolerate collateral damage on it's own citizens in the name of getting ISIS, so why accept the possibility of non-American causalities?
• MK999 10y ago
  isis is run by western intelligence
• forgotpwtomain 10y ago
  Because the USA government funded ISIS to begin with? There is no advantage to removing ISIS they aren't a threat to the US but are anti-Assad so they support our interests in the region indirectly. Furthermore they are great scapegoat for an executive government power grab and building a surveillance state. It doesn't hurt that prolonged military engagements do wonders for the profits of the military-industrial complex either.