I personally think the military is in trouble. The Volunteer Army has produced an aristocratic Officer Corp, educated, mostly Academy graduates. Enlisted, they are the lower socioeconomic classes. For a "fighting force" has all sorts of problems. We have way too many generals, among many problems.
To be perfectly honest, I have become somewhat of an solationist, especially as relates the MidEast. But, all started with my own war, Vietnam. Useless war, accomplished nothing. Then Iraq, what a disaster. Afghanistan, no possibility that we can truly effect, much less basically change anything. So, what would I do. First of all, I would allow Iran, even as much as we can't forgive them for taking hostages; still, they are the only ones to get ISIS if that is our goal. (We aligned ourselves with Joseph Stalin, a mass murderer to defeat Nazi Germany.
I would involve Assad of Syria. The Arab Spring, what good has that done but create chaos. Where do we think Assad can go. Doing more than we are doing is stupid. We don't even know the players in Syria. Yet I hear these "talking heads" giving these rosy reports. Please! The worse ones are the State Dept types. Youngsters who wouldn't know soldiering and combat if it ran over them. And, they are talking about "boots on the ground" as if they had been there.
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