@Olivier5,
@ossobuco,
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"I think there's a level of chickenshitness with bombing from a desk far away."
I agree. Recently the US bombed a Medecins Sans Frontiere hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing a few French and Afghan doctors and staff.
It's also quite ineffective as a stand-alone approach, which is why I would much prefer a ground assault, prepared as it should be by well-targeted bombing...
Letting IS grow and prosper is the last thing the entire world needs.
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I see your point, given there be no bungling - not easy, I suppose - and no overdoing, also not easy.
I prefer people be de-radicalized in other ways, as in real conversations with regular muslims and even us - I guess that's the Ghandi approach - but it is quite late and time matters. The money business Puzzled remarked on, assuming it's all true, is a big problem. Not that that is all one sided.