WD-40 wrote:Normally..."The Enemy of my Enemy, is my Friend". Clearly, that's not the case here. Maybe 'The Enemy of my Enemy is a temporary Ally with certain exceptions'(?)
Well whoever we’re allied with I sincerely hope the USA can get the job done without committing ground troops. ISIS needs to be wiped out, but it should ideally be the Iraqi Army, the Kurds and/or the Iranians who contribute most to the effort on the ground.
However I personally don’t see the root cause getting removed (radical Islam) even if ISIS is wiped out. The west and its overly-PC approach just hasn’t got the balls to confront certain practices such as sharia, halal, segregation, radicalism, child marriage, work practices (handling of pork/alcohol), restrictions on freedom of speech/expression, anti-semitism, women’s rights etc etc. The demanding of all these practices by some (but by no means a small minority of) Muslims is a lesser example of radicalism which just confirms to me there’s a major culture clash going on in the West, fanning the flames of hate and helping contribute situations like that in Iraq/Syria.
SB