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I Want To Talk Politics

To Megyn Kelly:

No, The Donald DOES NOT need to "change his tone". YOU are NOT his mother.

The American people continue to speak via the electoral process.

We want an American President, someone who cannot be bought. Someone who understands what it means to BE American. Someone who will close our porous borders. Who will strengthen our military, affirm our American values.

Keep your tone, Trump.
America is counting on you.

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Northwest · M

@carpediem:

"we are not bombing the crap out of them already."

91,821 airstrikes to date, and that's just the US led coalition. Add Russia to the mix, and that number can probably be doubled.

Targets damaged/destroyed:

139 Tanks
374 HMMWVs
1,162 staging areas
5,894 Buildings
7,118 fighting positions
1,272 Oil infrastructures
6,820 Other targets

ISIL lost more than 50% of the territory it gained in Iraq, an currently, a battle for the retaking of the largest two ISIL holdings in Iraq is underway.

ISIL lost the Kurdish areas it occupied.

ISIL recently lost the largest town it held in Syria.

The strategy: enable native ground troops, and support with logistics/air support/supplies and training, is indeed working.

The remaining areas, require 100% ground troop commitment. Trump stated that he would not commit US troops. We are not doing that. The real issue are this point, is that ISIL has retreated into residential neighborhoods in the areas it controls, making it impossible to carpet bomb. So, it's going to be an urban, building to building fight, so no instant results and a long battle.

We can do what the Syrians/Assad is doing in Syria: clear ISIL out by carpet bombing an entire neighborhood, kill one ISIL operative for every 100 civilians, dig mass mass graves and bury the bodies, and call it a day. I don't think I want my tax $s going toward that effort.

"In fact, the entire effort has been feckless and weak."

There is nothing factual about this statement.

"ISIS is expanding into other countries"

Exactly, what countries?