However, this also demonstrates that Millenials don't have enough time to study this problem in detail. Because if they did they would realize like I do that sending in troops is the worst thing we could do.
The reasons:
1. This is a Cold War type of conflict now with Russia involved. Because of this sending in U.S. or NATO ground troops could be a disaster and help create a nuclear war because our goals are markedly different than Russia. Look how upset Turkey is already because Turkish people and their Sunni friends are being massacred by the Russians including 75% women and children. And Turkey is a NATO member which already makes this more crazy than necessary for nuclear weapons already. Turkey right now might wind up in a "hot war" with Russia beyond the economic war going on with them from Russia already.
2. ISIS Wants more than anything to fight U.S. soldiers so they can ALL die in battle fighting U.S. soldiers which would only bring 10 times the Sunni Muslim recruits in the future to fight the U.S. and NATO during the next 50 or more years. Obama understands this like I do. Obviously this is too complex for most Millenials to understand because they are working so many hours each week they don't have time to study all this in enough detail to understand the Crazy insane complexity of all this.
3. Syria has belonged to Russia (Cold WAr style) along with Iran since at the very least 1980 when the Ayatola overthrew the Shah of IRan. So, Cold War style our interference there in Syria is a problem for the remnants of the Cold War which is demonstrated by Russia being there still.
4. Cold WAr rules: The Soviet Union Mostly stayed out of Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War. The Americans mostly stayed out of the Soviet-AFghan war until the very end. This war created the Afghan-Pakistani hero Osama Bin Laden by the way for Sunnis and Shias in that region which is why he was given a place to live in Pakistan until the U.S. found out.
The U.S. has Mostly stayed out of Syria until now. Nato has mostly stayed out of Syria until now. Russia has been involved in Syria and Iran for at least 30 years.
So, unless you consider all these things and many more, sending in U.S. troops under these conditions is pretty insane don't you think?
Part of the saving grace for the U.S. in regard to all this is Russia and the U.S. do agree on one thing: ISIS must be eliminated any way possible.
5. Iran is leaving Syria with it's troops for the most part. What does this mean? Does this mean that what Russia is doing in Killing all Sunnis in Syria and it is making it too hot for Iran, so Iran is worried about long term Sunni retribution against Iran, because after all, Iran is right there with all the Sunni nations with nowhere to escape to? OR does this mean something entirely different? I don't know. Do you?
A dramatic shift: ISIS prompts change in Millennials' view of US involvement
Politics
A dramatic shift: ISIS prompts change in Millennials’ view of US involvement
For
perhaps the first time in their voting lives, a majority of Millennials
support sending ground troops to fight in the Middle East. The dramatic
shift became most pronounced in the wake of the Nov. 13 terrorist
attacks in Paris, in which gunmen and suicide bombers trained by the
radical militant group known as the Islamic State killed 130 people,
according to surveys of Millennials ages 18-29 conducted by Harvard’s
Institute of Politics (IOP).
We have more than enough problems for ourselves.Dinorah Rosario, Berklee College student
Before
the Paris attacks, IOP’s poll results showed about half of young
Americans supporting US boots on the ground: 48 percent supported the
concept, while 48 percent opposed it. Following the events of Nov. 13th,
however, when IOP asked the question again, the Institute found that 60
percent of Millennials were now in favor of sending ground troops to
combat ISIS, while 40 percent were in opposition. Public opinion surveys
conducted around that same time also indicated mixed opinions about
whether American military action in Iraq and Afghanistan had been
effective. What, then, is different about ISIS? It may be that there is a
causal link between the threat of terrorism and public support for
military intervention.
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