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I'm not even going to read it. This is true, and even our War College scholars are denying it: if you don't send tanks, you don't want a decision. Emphasize: decision!

They wish to substitute accuracy, intell, and surprise for mass. Get real. Name an example where anyone rendered a decisive victory from an air-only campaign. Dahdada dada da adad (Jeopardy theme playing).

This ship has sailed. We aren't going to get our way in the Middle East, although we had the bird in our hands at one point. Now we are in the hands of fate.

Focus on Putin. He's the greater threat between two really bad threats. It may be possible to re-tool after we embarrass him.

In the video I seen an individual cut the guy's head off, NOT an organization.

With all the bad asses crawling all over the web I'm surprised that murderer is still alive.

Maybe if the bad asses rounded up all their cheezy chinese trinketry and sold it on craigslist they'd summons the coin for a flight ticket to the middle east knife artist for some *straightenin".

But that's not what the bad asses want, is it?

They don't really think the act was attrocious and the individual responsible should be brought to instant justice, do they?

Hell, the local jackboots can shoot their dog, pound their obese wife, steal their shit, and all they'll do is blob out on the couch for DWTS and bacon wrapped lard patties rolled in double sugar.

Gooey butterballs, ripe for pickin' and doin' what they're programmed for.

Aw, c'mon ghost, don't pull any punches, tell us how you really feel.

Meanwhile:
While all is being said, not much is being done.
To address a scourge such as Islam we must think in terms of extermination.
Think: Dresden;
Think: Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
Collateral damage? Every time some unfortunate guy gets beheaded and the video goes viral?
Really, collateral damage? You're worried some kids or old people are gonna get killed?
When they kill one of ours, we kill one hundred of theirs.
It has been seen and experienced in most every other country in the world, from the "super-powers" to the Third World yocky-dock countries: Islam is not a good thing. It benefits nobody, apparently not even the adherents. Which is more important, innocent non-Muslims or psychopathic suicide-prone fanatics?
We are all listening to rumors that something bad is gonna happen on 9-11. Instead of cowering and hoping that it won't happen near us we should be fire-bombing Baghdad and other concentrations of Muslim terrorists. Can't find 'em? Enlarge the target area.
Folks, as unpleasant as it may appear, going against spiritual principles that I and many others espouse in Christianity, the only solution for the Muslim threat is to kill every last one of them, their families, their friends, their neighbors; to lay waste to their crop lands and salt their wells, to destroy their buildings such that no two stones lay atop one another.
The justification, if one is needed, is that the Muslims are Evil. Biblically or worldly, believers or atheists, young, old, gay or straight, male or female, White or Black or any other combination of the above, the paradigm in which we all repose dictates that some things are good, some bad, and some Evil.

PS. We ought to firebomb the Ebola plague centers as well.

All sounds nice BUT and that is a huge BUT nothing will be accomplished as long as we continue to abide by the Geneva Convention Rules of Warfare. They are not signatories. This goes for ISIL, Hamas, al Qaeda, Boko Harum and any other group by any other spinoff name.

Post these rules to the populace
1) Either get away from the fighters or kill them. If you stay with them, you are considered support troops.
2) All supply dumps are targets especially mosques.
3) Anyone caught armed out of uniform will be shot as a spy.
4)Anyone caught armed in uniform will be shot at just stupid.
5)There is no collateral damage, everywhere is a free fire zone if any armed persons are there.

Thumbs up to @Vermont Woodchuck!

When you refuse to strike targets because the illegal combatants surround themselves with "civilians" you only increase the incidence of use of "human shields."

Precision-guided, stand-off weapons only perpetuate this never-land of not-war and not-peace. Destroy them with emphasis on certain destruction. Make no distinction between their "civilians" and their leaders or governments. Destroy as much as you can reach and the "civilians" will either overthrow their troublesome leaders, or they will die with their leaders.

Do you want these people destroyed or do you want to check daily to see if a shopping mall, elementary school, or office tower has been destroyed in your town? There is no less-bad war, there is war and flavors of surrender. Choose victory and recognize it's the only option that has proven to work. Nice. equal dead.