Lindsey Graham: Send 10,000 U.S. Ground Troops to Fight Islamic State

[Suzanimal]

Lindsey Graham: Send 10,000 U.S. Ground Troops to Fight Islamic State


Senator Lindsey Graham wants to put 10,000 "boots on the ground" to confront the Islamic State

The South Carolina Republican, who on Thursday premiered a political action committee aimed at exploring a run for president, told Face the Nation on Sunday that the terrorist organization could launch an attack on the U.S. that would be like "Paris on steroids" and that the group won't stop executing hostages aide workers and journalists until "they're degraded and destroyed."

"An aerial campaign will not destroy them," Graham said. "You're going to need boots on the ground, not only in Iraq, but in Syria."

Host Norah O'Donnell said the Islamic State effectively controls 20,000 square miles in those two countries, and the group released a video on Friday that appears to show the execution of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. Graham called Iraq and Syria the "best platforms to launch an attack on [the] United States" since 9/11.

Graham said he thought aerial strikes, which have been ongoing against the group, have helped push it back but that "there's got to be some regional force formed with an American component, somewhere around 10,000" in order to stop the group.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is considering his own run for president in 2016, also said on Sunday that "ultimately, we have to be prepared to put boots on the ground," although he said that wasn't "an immediate plan."

Sending ground troops to Iraq and Syria may play well in the upcoming GOP primary. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans support the idea, according to a Pew poll released in October. Conversely, the issue could be a liability in the general election as 55 percent of respondents from both parties opposed sending in ground troops.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-01/lindsey-graham-send-10-000-u-s-ground-troops-to-fight-islamic-state

[DamianTV]

Solution: Send 10,000 troops to arrest, prosecute, and imprison the war criminal Lindsey Graham for the rest of his natural born life. I would probably look the other way if he fell down a set of stairs, several times in a row, on accident of course.

WARMONGER

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[rpfocus]

Lindsey Graham: Send 10,000 U.S. Ground Troops to Fight Islamic State


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-01/lindsey-graham-send-10-000-u-s-ground-troops-to-fight-islamic-state

Yeah, only if you lead the charge, Lindsey. Damn Chickenhawks...

[enhanced_deficit]

Make it 100K to be sure that freedom will be spreaded adequately and get them WMDs.



Maybe Lindsey knows something that is not public knowledge.

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Lindsey Graham: Wrong on Everything
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/27/lindsey-graham-wrong-on-everything/

Wrong Again, Sen. Graham (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/wrong_again_sen_graham_20110104)
Jan 4, 2011




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#SWCbags

[Xenliad]

Send every veteran and spare troop, draft everyone age 13-70 as well because military service builds character and promotes patriotism, and arm them all with soup cans.

[Brian4Liberty]

There is no one person or small group of people that Lindsey Graham can kill to stop Islamic fundamentalism or anti-American sentiment.

Here's the only thing that might work, Lindsey. Do this or shut the hell up. Give everyone who receives public assistance a weapon and a one-way ticket over there. They can keep all of the land they conquer, and then stay there to hold it forever as a pro-American democracy. And if that fails, Lindsey goes to Guantanamo to be tortured for the rest of his life.

[Ronin Truth]

Give Lindsey an M16 and send him to fight ISIS.

[BarryDonegan]

Graham ought go over there himself if he feels it's so important.

[twomp]

and then 20k, then 30k, 40k, 50k, 60k until Graham climaxes...

[AngryCanadian]

I would approve as long they take every one whom has ever pro war articles and has a war mongering stance, if you love war so much go fight yourselves and lets see if they would come back alive.

[69360]

Problem is 10,000 is just warmonger enough to get a lot of Americans killed and not defeat IS.

I think 100,000 is more realistic to overwhelm and defeat IS, not that I think we should do it.

[paleocon1]

I would have to vote No on that one.

[twomp]

Problem is 10,000 is just warmonger enough to get a lot of Americans killed and not defeat IS.

I think 100,000 is more realistic to overwhelm and defeat IS, not that I think we should do it.

100,000 was how many were sent into Iraq and during the "surge." And that went pretty well. It's not like we have to go back to Iraq after those 100k were sent in. Oh wait....

You can send in 100k, 200k, 1 million troops and nuke the whole damn place and you will still not get rid of the jihadist problem. Sure, you may take out ISIS but all the innocent people you kill will just recruit the next generation of Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Shabab, Bo Karam, Brown Boogie Muslim Man. The whole idea that you can bomb your way to peace is fking stupid. You will not defeat ISIS with 100k american soldiers. All you will do is create conditions for the next ISIS to come along. Why is that so hard for people like you to understand.

[TheCount]

Living in SC, it's painful every time I see a Graham bumper sticker. It doesn't help that there are quite a lot to be seen. The fact that this man has the level of support that he does is simultaneously depressing and revolting.

[Uriel999]

I still just can't wait for the day he gets caught for molesting boys and goes to jail for a long long time.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Living in SC, it's painful every time I see a Graham bumper sticker.


Except that there is a big difference between a liberal progressive like yourself disdaining Graham, and liberty people here disdaining Graham. Liberty people here probably agree with Graham on a few things (opposition to Obamacare, welfare, etc.), whereas progressives like yourself disagree with him on just about everything.

[jbauer]

Let's send him and his entire bloodline. Maybe dress em up as japanese journalists?


Lindsey Graham: Send 10,000 U.S. Ground Troops to Fight Islamic State


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-01/lindsey-graham-send-10-000-u-s-ground-troops-to-fight-islamic-state

[DFF]

There is no ISIS or Islamic State.

The alleged beheading videos are made on a sound-stage with green screen backgrounds.

The whole thing is a fantasy. A monstrous myth to justify the continuation of the US war machine.

[DamianTV]

Lindsey Graham is only furthering a War on Us, not a War on Them.

Every measure taken to combat a foreign enemy eventually gets turned against its own citizens. EVERY mesure, ever.

[Matt McGuire]

There is no ISIS or Islamic State.

The alleged beheading videos are made on a sound-stage with green screen backgrounds.

The whole thing is a fantasy. A monstrous myth to justify the continuation of the US war machine.

At the risk of you being sarcastic, I'm not going to neg-rep this post.