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2015-02-14 Home Front: WoT

Rep. Alan Grayson: We Could Destroy ISIS, "Turn Iraq & Syria Into Molten Glass," But That Is "Beneath Us"

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Posted by Fred 2015-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 I like the molten glass idea.

Posted by chris 2015-02-14 09:26|| 2015-02-14 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 But letting them continue and expand their reign of torture, slavery, and slaughter isn't?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-02-14 09:51|| 2015-02-14 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 I second the glass. Desert sands should make pretty glass.

Posted by 3dc 2015-02-14 10:26|| 2015-02-14 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 All is beneath the untethered.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp15043 2015-02-14 12:11|| 2015-02-14 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 "In fact, there is no way to win this that is something that we would regard as even acceptable to us on a moral level."

Sorry, guy. Your track record doesn't qualify you on anything to do with "moral".

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-14 12:44|| 2015-02-14 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 You know, we managed to defeat Nazi Germany without turning France into a glass parking lot or turning everyone in Denmark into lampshades. And the Germans had an industrial base.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-02-14 13:45|| 2015-02-14 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 we managed to defeat Nazi Germany without... and when leftover Nazis assassinated some of our troops after VE day, we mobilized 100,000 or so odd troops of our own to go door to door and confiscate weaponry. That couldn't have happened in Iraq in 2003 - 2004.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-14 14:02|| 2015-02-14 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 His way is cheaper Snowy and thorough.

It would be wrong of course, I mean unless we had numbers.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-14 16:49|| 2015-02-14 16:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Anguper: that wouldn't have been a good strategy in Iraq anyway. The predecessor group to ISIS was armed by the Syrian government. Given that ISIS spends most of its time fighting the Other Syrian Rebels, Iraqi Sunnis, and Kurds, it _probably_ gets support from the Syrians too. I think the relevant Star Trek episode is "A Private Little War."

Grayson was one of the dipshits who helped make ISIS strong by refusing to acknowledge that most of the violence in Iraq was because of Syria and Iran trying to start an Iraqi civil war along religious lines. Thanks to people like him and Presnident Zero, Affirmative Action Example Extroardinaire, they've now succeeded. As far as I'm concerned, he should shut the fuck up until the end of goddamn time.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-02-14 21:43|| 2015-02-14 21:43|| Front Page Top

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