Obama just wants to contain ISIS...

[Spata]

It's a sad state of affairs when mother****ing Iran is the most stable country in Southeast Asia.

 

[ignerntbend]

It's a sad state of affairs when mother****ing Iran is the most stable country in Southeast Asia.

If true, I'm going to blame plate tectonics.

 

[Spata]

What about fracking? That **** is always causing trouble.

 

[Glocktogo]

If there is currently anyone, anywhere in the world that deserves to be killed, it's ISIS. If we're going to expend so much as one dime on threats anywhere, it should be these guys. However, this pussyfooting around dropping a miniscule amount of 500 pounders is retarded. I mean full retard! That is sending the message that we really don't want to stop them at all, just use them as a thin veil of political cover for all our current scandals.

If we really wanted to send a message to ISIS about their barbaric Caliphate, we's start with about a dozen of these:

Then we'd follow up with a few dozen of these:

Then sprinkle a few of these on top:

As a matter of fact, I think I'd turn the whole thing into a massive command and control exercise to see how many ordinance drops I could fit into that airspace.

FML, where's Teddy when we need him?

 

[Grindstone]

Vos laid it out pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=556ZV2jjVwc

 

[71buickfreak]

What would Teddy do? Ride gosh damn camel into the middle of that damn desert and get his head blowed off....

It is a different world now.

All jokes aside, this is the limp-dickinest response to what is probably the scariest human threat we face.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

All jokes aside, this is the limp-dickinest response to what is probably the scariest human threat we face.

SOP for this admin.

 

[Wheel Gun]

Wow. I can't even remember the current scandals now. Even the IRS scandal seems like ancient history.

 

[SoonerP226]

Like I said in the other thread, it seems the air strikes are being conducted to keep IS from getting closer to Erbil and our diplomatic mission there. If that is the case, perhaps a lesson from Benghazi was actually learned.

That's actually what they said yesterday (well, not the Benghazi part, just the "we're protecting our diplomatic assets" part).
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/08/338776894/obama-authorizes-targeted-strikes-in-iraq

 

[backspur]

This has nothing to do with containing ISIS. These bombings are about Obama saving face. He has been made to look like a sissy. Now he is trying to flex by dropping bombs in the desert.