I am seriously getting more and more perplexed by the math involved in this ISIS crisis.
In today's Washington post I read that 60+ nations have now signed on to the coalition.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/chec ... are-doing/The list includes all the members of the G8 except Russia and a mishmash of other nations. The combined population of the members who have pledged support is in the billions. The combined active professional military personnel of the forces is in the millions. The combined military expenditures is in the trillions.
Now could someone please explain to me why we have Admiral Kirby telling us that it is going to take years to fight this force of 50,000 rebel terrorists ?
Rear Adm John Kirby: IS fight 'will take years'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29337495I mean really? Years ? For this force ? I get that no one wants to put boots on the ground but can a group with the population of Port Coquitlam really keep the world at bay for years ?
Are they planning on killing one a day ? I honestly just don't get that and I hope to God we are not tied down in another one of these clusterfucks for years.
I just feel like they are trying to bomb the crap out of an ideology that was born out of us bombing the crap out of ideologies and I see no military way out once we get sucked in.
I know there are clear difficulties in fighting insurgency warfare but from my understanding this is more of an open conflict than was Iraq.
Does it seem off to anyone else ?