Wandering wrote:Glassing the area was a figure of speech.
That said..Even Russia and Chinese has as much to lose from allowing ISIS and their followers to exist. I wonder if everyone would launch if US did... and/or if they wouldn't join the purge of a radical faction that will NEVER be honest or trustworthy enough to negoctiate with
Nuke or Marine... one of them is plenty to get the job done
Not the point on wether or not they like the guys you nuke. If they know the US are crazy enough to nuke people they don't like then they'll feel threatened and almost assuredly will result in even more violence.
And no maries won't be enough. Despite acting like you know the Art of War, you seem oblivious to both modern military tactics (which the Art of War wouldn't obviously cover, fair enough) and the situation in the Middle East. It's also not as if everyone in the Middle East is supporting ISIS nor even supporting radicalism. Look at what happened during the Vietnam War where insurgent units uses guerilla tactics. The US lost badly and while they did revised their tactics to be more efficient against guerrila tactics, it is still very different fighting in the desert compared to fighting in the jungle marshes of Vietnam. Do you know the maxim "War. War never changes"? Well it's rubbish in a way. War always changes.