OT? A New Cold War

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Originally Posted by Bullet Magnet

No matter how vile they may be, no matter how vile they demonstrate themselves to be, western nations have a plentiful supply of people who will cry that they (ISIS) are human beings, etc., and scream that the US and other western nations are the "bad guys" for acting against them.

I don't think that's it. I think that it's this: In order to root these vile scumbags out and make sure they don't come back (from Iraq and, perhaps, Syria) means putting boots on the ground- lots of them. That's what the general public in the West isn't willing to do- put its young men and women on the ground in another hostile, Middle Eastern hell-hole, to fight a nationless state with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of its own young men more than willing to kill Westerners or die trying.