Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
What really ticks me off are the reports of ISIS forces using up-armored humvees and other gear that we "sold" (gave, really) to the Iraqi Army. What's the point of giving them all that gear only so they can drop it once and run away?
Jobs, and repeat orders?

Seriously, though: air strikes won't play well, at all. All it will do is reinforce the notion that you can always count on the USA to make a bad situation still worse somehow. At least, that is more or less the sentiment among Iraqi expats I know: basically, Saddam was bad but at least your extended family wasn't murdered left right and center by any random upjumped nutter with a gun and inflated ego.