Consider: We've proven in foreign wars since 1898 that we are incapable of building a successful state through insurgency warfare.
Iraq and Afghanistan (and Vietnam) are testament to that statement.
Yet we never learn.
On the other hand, we've won virtually every war we've fought against a foreign state, through nuclear or conventional warfare.
I say let ISIS take Syria and Iraq and create a Caliphest State. Then, as soon as they make a warlike move -- and you can bet they will -- take them on en-masse, in the style of warfare we know best. Just like we did during WWII.
We will never defeat Islamic Jihad through insurgency warfare.
Reality.
Iraq and Afghanistan (and Vietnam) are testament to that statement.
Yet we never learn.
On the other hand, we've won virtually every war we've fought against a foreign state, through nuclear or conventional warfare.
I say let ISIS take Syria and Iraq and create a Caliphest State. Then, as soon as they make a warlike move -- and you can bet they will -- take them on en-masse, in the style of warfare we know best. Just like we did during WWII.
We will never defeat Islamic Jihad through insurgency warfare.
Reality.