U.S. Special Forces Raid Into Syria

[DangerousDave]

I noticed Syria hasn't continued their outrage. They know they are wrong. We used to have this silly phrase when I was stationed in the FRG back in the Cold War. "Fifty target pasters?- Other guy said, OK".

[bl00k]

Of course, probably SOAR and SFOD-D folks. According to BreitBart, they raided a village 7 klicks inside Syria. About time.

Yes, it's about time the US is gonna attack every muslim-country in the middle east. As i said before, the best solution is to kill all of 'em so no terrorist will be alive. We all know these 'scorched earth'-strategies work wonders.

Seriously, you can't see how this can come and bite the US in the ass someday? This will create more terrorists than it kills.

edit: Hell, this kind of actions is the main reason there are terrorists who aim for the US. You think some guy somewhere in the ME gets up some morning and says to himself, 'you know what, i'm gonna kill me some Americans'. Ofcourse not, they want to kill because they've lost something. Something the US probably has taken or is taking right now. This war on terrorism in the middle east won't do crap. For every terrorist shot dead there will be 10 other terrorists standing up, most likely family members of the former.

The US can't win anymore. If they wan't to be thorough and kill everybody, they commit genocide. If they continue on like this, they will create more terrorists. If they leave, the US won't have any influence on the ME anymore. This war was lost before it began.

[AKross]

I have to agree with bl00k on some of his points. The problem with this whole thing is that each dead enemy becomes another Martyr. This has never been a war of soldiers fighting soldiers it has been a war of soldiers fighting angry civilians. It is like trying to calm a riot by firing into the crowd. Sure you can kill the instigators, but you can't kill their cause. As long as the cause lives on they will continue to fight for it. I'm not saying we should pull every soldier out of Iraq or that we shouldn't respond to a serious threat. The US has to stop terrorism at the cause not at the effect, make it so the ends don't justify the means. The problem with chasing your demons to hell is that you must become a demon to chase them there.

[aquarius]

I agree with bl00k. What however bothers me, is that we -the western countries- many times let the US do the dirty work, and if it afterwards turned out wrong, we blame the US.
Maybe Syria is not really mad about the raid, because Syria is also afraid of Al Q-like terrorism. Of course Syria has to announce its disregard of such actions, but probably they are very glad with the outcome.

[bl00k]

I agree with bl00k. What however bothers me, is that we -the western countries- many times let the US do the dirty work, and if it afterwards turned out wrong, we blame the US.

Yes i've thought about that too, and i guess it's partly true. But the EU has always felt less of a need to take military action. Maybe because they're all smaller countries who'd rather sit on the sidelines than do actual fighting. The US is in the superpower race, the EU-countries clearly are not.

[jfko6]

Bluto's Motivational Speech

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