He should have gone full Palin: “All of 'em.”
“Plus Antarctica.”
President Carson, confronted with a fearsome enemy, calls in a close advisor and tells him to call all our allies. The advisor asks for clarification. Carson responds: “EVERYONE!”
Isn’t there *already *a coalition of nations fighting ISIS? Or did I miss something?
Pfft! They’re not fighting. They’re just bombing! /wingnut
Has Chris Wallace turned into a FNCINO ? (FauxNews Correspondent In Name Only?) I thought it was the Lame Stream Media that liked to ask Real American™ candidates the Gotcha questions.
Multiple caveats: I know this is not the thread for this, and I know this is a stupid idea that would only appeal to the most brain-dead of Republicans. But I wonder if the best response to the events in Paris is to just say: That’s enough, this shit ends now, and launch a full NATO boots on the ground invasion of Syria. Kick everyone’s ass and take everyone’s names.
Just for the sake of clarity: in this scenario, are we with the Russians or agin 'em?
How many innocents do we have to kill to properly avenge the deaths of innocents?
But, how do we do that without getting into an expensive and intractable quagmire with ethnic cleansing, insurgency and refugees, as in Iraq?
Oh, get out of here with your hippie liberal rationality. I’m in raging id mode.
Agin’ 'em, I suppose, if the Russians are supporting Assad.
Colonialism. You didn’t have this stuff going on when the British ran things.
Note: I do not really endorse this plan. Just taking this awful thought experiment to its ridiculous conclusion.
That’s only because plane tickets weren’t available, and there was no reason for the Muslim world to be mad at most of the Western world in those days. They were certainly happily killing each other, and at much greater rates than today.
…tells them “You want to bomb that other country over there”.
Better than having him stab them, he’s not very good at the whole “stabby” thing.
Ted Cruz’s response to the Paris attacks:
Unfortunately, even targeted airstrikes kill some of the innocent; “zero tolerance” is *not *the current policy. But Cruz apparently wants carpet bombing.
Their innocents are not like ours!