08-20-2014, 04:40 PM
DP wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]
[quote=DP]
Then lets get past politics so it won't take so long to stop ISIL.
Do you have your magic "let's get past politics" wand handy? I'm not trying to be flip, but the naïveté is making it nearly impossible not to be.
If you think the U.S. is going to send 135K+ troops back into Iraq for a prolonged occupation AGAIN right now, no matter the cause, you have a very different perspective on today's politics than i do.
I don't think you are being flip. I never said I expected the US to send troops. I said I think we should. There are not too many situations in the world that are as serious a threat to any type of stability in the Middle East that could spread far and wide than the ISIL situation. And I agree that naïveté makes it nearly impossible.
See, we're not so far apart!
One thing that might help to destabilize ISIL would be the conscious cultivation of a real power-sharing government in Baghdad in which Shi'a, Sunni, and Kurdish players all have an actual stake. ISIL could not have taken so much territory in Iraq without the implicit cooperation/silence of many Sunni Iraqis who feel under attack from a Shi'a-dominated government in Baghdad which continues to foment sectarian division for political and economic gain.