TobiasFunke

Bull. The country could have been stable for 10 years, and the second something like this happens you would say that it was because of a power vacuum and our fault that this happened. The point is, short of keeping troops and money in the country for an indefinite time there was nothing else that could have been done.

If it's the inevitable that we are going in there guns blazing, why should Iran spend resources to do the same thing? It's like if I'm gearing up for a fight with some dude and a person I don't really like steps in and says, "hey man, **** that guy I'm gonna kick his ass also." I'd stand back and let them go at it.

I was kind of joking when I said it earlier but I'm dead serious. If the Catalonians knew that Barca wouldn't be a part of La Liga anymore if they broke away then they would happily be with Spain. Looking around online I found this gem of an article on that topic http://www.insidespanishfootball.com/24450/in-an-independent-catalonia-where-would-barca-compete/

Agree 100% There was absolutely nothing else we could have done to stabilize the country more than it was short of occupying the country forever. Nothing.

I think it's the inevitable that they get into NATO and the EU. I still stand by my comment that they don't necessarily have to have military.

"In the European Union, size matters,"

Wait, was there an article that I missed saying this

Wait, you dolts are complaining about her face?

...ok...then what could we have done to not leave a vacuum? My take is that there is nothing else we could have done for Iraq. You obviously think we could have done more. I'm curious in what you think what more we could have done.

Some countries don't have a military, why should Scotland?

Define "finish the job"? What more could we have done to secure Iraq for the future.

Completely agree. Defense contractors are loving life.

We did it because the news channels happened to pick it up therefore outcry from mother superiors like yourself.

And they're both legit

Catalonia breaking away is such a joke. All Spain needs to do is tell the people of Catalonia that Barca can't be a part of La Liga anymore. End of discussion.

Are you serious? HAHA Quick to disagree with someone on here but when asked your opinion you think it's an entrapment. Cute.

Jay, if you were the president, how would you handle the IS situation?

This pretty much sums up what I was going to say to calscuf. Yes we made things ugly in the Middle East, but when can we say, "ok finally this isn't our problem." We as a nation will never say that. We did everything we could in my opinion to prop up Iraq before we left. Anything else that happens afterwards is on them.

That'll be the day when Rand wins the Republican nominee

Well if you put it as simple as that. No. But it's not as simple as that.

I don't think you can have this conversation without keeping that into the discussion.

We must not have had the resources in place. Too bad for those people. Damn resources.

It you look closely it looks like a woman laying down with a giant "non-native" tattoo on her side

ISIS recently murdered who they say were 1,500 Iraqi POWs. Sure as shit we knew that they had them and were going to do that. Why didn't we stop them? Why didn't we prevent the murders? We know of terrible atrocities going on in Africa but we as a country don't do anything about them. Why? Because "we don't have the resources in place"? We are a country that picks and chooses what good we want to do because of various reasons (religious, political, etc.) and not from the kindness of our hearts. And more often than not that shit has gotten us in a world of trouble (pun intended). Bad things happen ITP. I'd love for you to be the one that says that yes we'll save those 10,000 people from the slaughter but not those 10,000 people. I can easily say to you when denying the chance to save some 10,000 humans in Village X because of resources that it's some messed up shit. But I won't because it's not as simple as that.