If you were the commander of an army, how would you fight the IS?

[Sailboat]

Perhaps if we built a giant wooden badger…

[XT]

@Sailboat

Perhaps if we built a giant wooden badger…

…we could get Iran to blow it up? Or were you thinking they might know a good contractor for building it?

[SecretaryofEvil]

@AK84

Use of latin is extremely unfortunate, as the Romans spent 8 centuries trying and failing to conquer this area.

Rome ruled Syria for more than 400 years.

@AK84

How well did they did in Mesopotamia? They captured Ctesiphon what, five times? Carted off and sold most of the population into slavery. Damn near bankrupted their empire as well while doing it. During their last war, they burnt down Nivenah (the same city everyone is crying about ISIS destroying).

Fat lot of good it did them.

The fact that Romans fought Parthians and later Sassanids over the right to rule Mesopotamia is a pretty good example that the area is far from unconquerable.

[The_Sheikh]

Keeping in mind that knives have a short range compared to missiles, I would wait to see if their knives could evolve to reach my army. If I want to get offensive, I would invade Canada.

[Steken]

@The_Sheikh

Keeping in mind that knives have a short range compared to missiles, I would wait to see if their knives could evolve to reach my army.

What’s the joke here?