Realistically why haven't we defeated ISIS with our technology how come we can't just fuck the whole middle east and destroy ISIS in a week?
our people are tired, do it yourself
>>60137087
uh because of needing a bogyman
You haven't even defeated birds with your technology
>>60137120
you created it now you destroy it faggot.
because technology alone doesn't win wars
>>60137087
Isis isn't a threat, that's why.
>>60137140
JIDF please leave
>>60137162
Bilel
>>60137087
If you defeat ISIS, they win
Because you can't defeat an insurgency. At best you defeat them militarily and drive them underground. So literally the absolute best situation you can hope for would look something like the Troubles in Ireland, but more than likely would look like Vietnam. There's a reason why determined insurgencies have been making so called superpowers look like idiots for thousands of years.
>>60137148
they shouldn't have messed with the best but now it ain't our problem buddy
>>60137200
nice meme
>>60137367
You of all people should know desu.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War
Obama wants ISIS to get bigger because he thinks it will destroy his enemies.
Because it would mean long time ground war which costs a lot.
>>60137087
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM3ElTvF52I
>suicide bomber gets sent off at beginning of video
>several ISIS APCs with infantry roll out into desert
>make contact with peshmerga
>ISIS APCs get knocked out by rockets
>ISIS forces get completely wiped out
they suck on a tactical basis. most of their recruits are high as balls when they go into combat. i believe the only reason they're surviving on a strategic basis is because our higher ups are letting them exist due to the military industrial complex or something
>>60137573
Do people seriously not understand the definition of a military quagmire? Nobody is questioning that the Western militarized could defeat ISIS, but it isn't a long term solution.
The Americans BTFO'd the Vietcong and NVA, the Soviets BTFO'd the Mujahadeen, and in the end it didn't mean shit. Sure, you can beat them on the battlefield, but then what? Their ideology doesn't go away, their organization doesn't go away. It just gets quieter and adapts. Now you're stuck with a mess of an occupation that is slowly bleeding money and manpower and accomplishing nothing with no end in sight. You can try to set up a friendly regime in the region, but if it wasn't able to withstand them before it won't be able to now, and the second the occupation is over ISIS will come back and retake the country.
This has happened countless times throughout history, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and still nobody seems to get it.
Beating ISIS isn't the problem, the problem is creating lasting stability and preventing the return of conditions that would allow ISIS to continue existing. You are essentially talking about building a nation from scratch, and that isn't something that can be done artificially, it has to be organic.
>>60137087
ISIS isn't weak
>>60137735
lol iraq was a functioning albeit authoritarian state prior to the gulf war, we turned it into a failed state
>>60137573
>implying ISIS cannon fodder is all ISIS has at its disposal
The actual elite units are fighting the YPG, SAA, and FSA
>>60137880
And now it's coming apart at the seems. Iraq is an artificial country, it can't be kept together except by extreme force, and the U.S. is trying to build a democratic state there. It won't work, balkanization is imminent.
Because of Oil
>second guy from the left
When will they learn.
