msshendo wrote:
I completely agre WetDad. As a country we do meddle in too much. I disagree with the strategy presented, training moderate rebels to fight the extremist rebels. Does no one remember the Taliban that we armed and trained to fight Russia out of Afghanistan and then we ended up fighting them in the gulf war?
Good point there! I do remember us setting up the Taliban - I think we called them the Mujahadin then - to fight off the Russians, which they did very well! Shame we messed up on having to fight them later...
I think one has to be careful in making judgements on Isis and the countries fighting ISIS. It is clear that ISIS, while probably pretty close to mainstream Muslim theology, is one of the nastiest and most brutal regimes we have had in the world for some centuries. Countries of the West cannot just sit back and ignore them in the hope they go away - they won't. Someone has to tackle them and if not us and the counties surround their land of hate, who is?