So you want BOOTS ON THE GROUND?

[Playinghardball]

[morningfog]

1. That is the question for Obama, Hillary and all the repub candidates.

[Lint Head]

2. ISIS wants boots on the ground.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29315164

[Rex]

3. Wow. Just...wow.

Hard to be more right about something. For that matter, when are we leaving Afghanistan? 14 years later...and what do we have to show for Americas longest war?

[Nye Bevan]

4. So are you more willing to listen to John McCain on this issue,

than to Barack Obama?

[DashOneBravo]

5. Politicians who want war

Should be required to spend a day at three places.

Walter Reed Hospital
The Army burn center
Arlington Cemetery

[Autumn]

7. I would rather see them in only one place. In the front lines fighting in any war they support

and they stay there, start to finish.

[retrowire]

8. yeah what happened to the good old fashioned

war mongers?

Even Genghis Kahn chopped heads alongside his men.

Hell our own George Washington did it! Of course circumstances were different in that war. lol

[KamaAina]

6. I'd sooner have a boot to the head!

[SoapBox]

11. Some need a boot to the

ass.

[Omaha Steve]

9. Perfect

K&R!

OS

[SoapBox]

10. Time for the draft!

No exemptions!

[erronis]

13. All warmongers and their children get automatic low numbers for the draft.

Cheney and his spawn: 1
Rumsfeldt and whatever he mustered: 1
W and his daughters/grandkids: 2 (Because he didn't really know what he was doing.)
Douglas Fife (or however you spell shit), Wu/woo: 2
The AEI: 3
Fox and friends: 2
Etc.

By the time you get all the eligible warmongers shipped out, there might not need to be any innocent lives in harms way. And eligibility age should be from 18 to 90.

[Octafish]

20. Better yet: Time to end the wars.

Save the military for protecting the USA, which is what they signed up for.

[Fritz Walter]

12. No, don't even send them or their offspring over there

Today I listened to a discussion about events and issues in the middle east -- the speakers were a former ambassador to a country in that region and his wife. When asked during the Q&A part of the program, what would they advise our government to do, they were pretty clear: stay the hell out.

The efforts to wipe out Daesh must be owned entirely by the countries in that region. Additional US or allied deployments will only bolster Daesh's recruitment efforts. We can support the legitimate governments with training and technology, but the middle eastern states must do the fighting.

They went on to say that a cultural shift is necessary. The old government model of controlling citizens/subjects will not work any more. The governments must move to influencing the people, using the social media and web platforms that Daesh has successfully manipulated to get this far.

Let the grown-ups deal with this matter; throwing our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines into battle is what got us into this situation in 2003.

[smirkymonkey]

18. +1000

[dpatbrown]

14. Draft

As a 60s person, a draft is the last thing that I thought I would ever support. But a draft is just what is needed at the beginning of the next invasion. One where no one is exempt, other than certified disabled and those over a certain age. Start putting the rich kids on the front lines and see how the wealthy respond.

I've always said that " the rich start wars, and the poor fight them".

[KPN]

17. Bingo ...

without a draft, there are no protests, no popular resistance, sadly only heroes.

[kairos12]

15. They want your boots on the ground.

[kairos12]

16. And a War Tax. On the 1 percent.

[Raster]

19. War is a GREAT business!

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