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I don't think "WE" underestimated them. I think the President and his advisers did. Everyone here (on RP) saw this handwriting on the wall.
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These people no savages have proven time and time again what they are willing to do. It's all about the attention they can get. I agree with SGT Richard Hanner never underestimate thr power of insanity!
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PO2 Patrick Dwyer
Prez was stopped from bombing them in Syria 6 + months ago by McCain, Speaker Boner who pointed out that only Congress could declare war. Temporary War Power for President to send troops, order military action is for time sensitive situations. Face it. Smedley Butler warned us" War is a Racket". Common sense tells you that if being threatened do not wait. Obliterate them from the earth. A lot of innocent women, Children, animals, plants,etc. will die but why take KIA,WIA and spend trillions of $$$'s?. Nuke Pakistan, House of Saud,Kuwait,Yemen, Afghanistan back to the stone age and do not even acknowledge it. Think hard..if they had it would they use it? Iraq now #2 Oil Producer in the world last 4-6 months and Halliburton is running the show there on US Tax dollars. Before OIF Iraq could not " Sell " a drop of Oil due to UN Sanctions but Uncle( I won The war ) Cheyney started that project first day in office with private meetings with Big Oil, Halliburton,etc. looking at Iraqi pipelines. Our Troops fought, died ,we're wounded to free the OIL. Democracy about 3rd on the List. Remember when Rumsfield was in Reagans Cabinet Saddam was our Boy. WE( US & UK) gave him binary Chemical weapons in early, early 80's. IF our Congress worked more than a few weeks at a time we could have obliterated ISIS/ISL over 6 months ago. They we're concentrated in Syria before moving in to Iraq. Nuke them all and let Allah sort them out.; When they get an atomic weapon they will use it. Hopefully against each other.... they have been killing each other since before 700 AD .
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SSG Jeremy Siebenaller
ISIS is just as big of a joke as the Taliban. Both mean and evil. Both just need exterminated. However, if we were allowed to do our job when faced with such evil...They wouldn't stand a chance. The only problem is that war isn't war anymore. Its a political agenda, which excites horror and terror into the minds of the week and keep people NEEDING the government. The truth is, that if the politicians had to grab a weapon and put their feet to the fire like we do...There wouldn't be anymore "wars" unless it was our freedom at stake. The only problem with that theory is that the politicians are oh so swift to send our young and brave to fight a war if they know it will help them in the ratings and elections. ISIS?! Does anyone remember the fact that Japan came here and tried to sucker punch us, so we detained EVERY Japanese that was in the U.S. THEN and only then went to their home front and dropped an atomic bomb (killing 150,000 people in a nano-second. Putting fear into the eyes of anyone willing to try to step on our toes again?! NOW we send a couple hundred troops the the enemies home, and do humanitarian aid to the locals, give the people that are here in the states more rights and privilages than natural born citizens and try to tell the people in the United States to not worry, we'll give them a safe place to sit back and attack our beautiful land, because we are compassionate?!
The question isn't, are we underestimating ISIS... The question is... How much are we underestimating our own military, and why are we trying to kiss everyone ass that is trying to do harm to our way of life?
The question isn't, are we underestimating ISIS... The question is... How much are we underestimating our own military, and why are we trying to kiss everyone ass that is trying to do harm to our way of life?
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Well we're the only superpower. Sad to say but it comes with the territory. I wouldn't say underestimated. That's only being said because some 30/40,000 Iraqi soldiers or whatever the number is, decided to turn their back on their country, leaving not only uniforms but actual equipment (rifles, grenades, tanks, artillery, etc.). Those Iraqi soldiers were what stood in between the Iraqi/Syria border and Baghdad, leaving only local law enforcement to turn into the region's defense. There's your underestimation. A group of thousands attacking a group of hundreds who are inept in training & equipment.
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