US getting back into Iraq fight

[fskimospy]

This, exactly. For years we refused to support a Kurdish state because we were courting Turkey as an ally. We could not get Turkey into the EU and now Turkey is becoming a much more fundie Islamic state, so none of that applies. I say better by far to protect and arm the Kurds. Better a civil war than another Rwanda.

Yes we wanted Turkey as an ally but we also didn't support a Turkish state because Turkey views an independent Kurdistan as an existential threat and might have intervened militarily in some way in the ensuing chaos of a Kurdish exit from Iraq. Maybe an independent Kurdistan is the best route but you are likely DRASTICALLY underestimating the Turkish response to it. It will get very ugly.

 

[ivwshane]

Disagree. Better to not get involved at all. The more we arm people over there, the more those weapons are used for purposes that we did not intend. For instance, ISIS getting its hands on modern American tanks.

Why did you bump a two year old thread?

 

[norseamd]

Disagree. Better to not get involved at all. The more we arm people over there, the more those weapons are used for purposes that we did not intend. For instance, ISIS getting its hands on modern American tanks.

Relatively meh. They are dangerous, but ISIS doesnt have the infrastructure to support them in the long term, nor the troops who can fully operate them effectively. Any tank, or even any armored vehicle, can be blown into dust quite easily these day, with the same effort as slicing butter.

 

[bshole]

Relatively meh. They are dangerous, but ISIS doesnt have the infrastructure to support them in the long term, nor the troops who can fully operate them effectively. Any tank, or even any armored vehicle, can be blown into dust quite easily these day, with the same effort as slicing butter.

Not meh to me. I don't like the idea of billions of American tax dollars being used to build weaponry that is promptly taken over and used against us. I also don't like billions of dollars being paid to bomb countries into oblivion for no discernible reason other than to create as many terrorists as possible.