The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (alternatively translated as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham), abbreviated ISIS or ISIL, is an unrecognized state and active Jihadist militant group in Iraq and Syria. More: en.wikipedia.org.

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May 19, 2015

The United States imperial presence in the Middle East is the only thing threatened. Yes, there may be attacks on U.S. territory used as a tactic to drive us out.

9/11 occurred because jihadists want the U.S. out of the Middle East, not because they hate us intrinsically. Though some certainly do, it is our bullying in the region that inflames their leaders and opens the average person's mind to the idea of fighting against the U.S.

ISIS is only a threat to the U.S. because the U.S. won't leave the region alone.
Empire does not work. Unfortunately, simply leaving the region won't 'fix' things now.

There is a threat, but no more a threat than any other country would face if it had invaded and occupied the United States for 50+ years.

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May 19, 2015

The ISIS army has a very real possibility of turning Iraq into the next Revolutionary Islamic State in the mold of Iran. This would pose a threat to the US and its allies on economic and security interests.

Its my opinion that the US should have settled for a solid 20-30 year occupation like we had in Germany and Japan to prevent this sort of bullshit from happening, but the american people apparently were desperate for the immediate gratification of pulling the troops out ASAP.

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May 19, 2015

Your right about that, but those on the left who have forgotten 911 can not see that.

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May 19, 2015

Those on the right have forgotten they were in charge the whole time and never suggested 20 to 30 years was required for stabilization.

We were supposed to be greeted as liberators and then it'd be over. Rumsefield and Cheney laughed when it was suggested it would cost 0 billion and said it'd never cost anywhere near that. TRILLION later, Bush penned the law for having us leave.

In 1994, Cheney even said there was no point in invading Iraq because there's no hope for a stable government afterwards. Then he became a war profiteer and it's been war, war, war ever since. They have no interest in actual peaceful resolutions.

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May 19, 2015

Those on the right just believed that those on the left would automatically understand that this was not just and over night thing. Even President Bush said this will a long hard war and they are just not going to go away. Was the left asleep during that speech. As for the Amount of money spent it was a good investment and would have been a better long term if Obama had not withdrawn, just like he is about to do in Afghanistan which will also fall and make no mistake about it they will be back on American Soil again and let see of those of you on the left can remember this day.

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May 19, 2015

June, 2005: The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Vice President Dick Cheney says, and he predicts that the fighting will end before the Bush administration leaves office.

cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.iraq/

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May 19, 2015

A it did end prior to Bush leaving office, but Obama pulls the troops and his interest and it starts again. remember Obama statement Bin Laden is dead and Al-Qaida is gone. Remember Gone no more VP Joe said this was the greatest victor of Obama administration. Gee I guess he was wrong very wrong.

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Nov 16, 2015

nobody learned crap from vietnam . as soon as we were gone poof isis. as soon as we pulled out of nam poof communism. isis is by far worse. why didnt the people see that coming? ppl just dont understand "how it is" , the bottom line way craps gonna hit the ground. i dont want my kid to die in a forien country possibly for nothing, but if he decides to join the military, i have to accept the fact that fate may become reality. I CAN RESPECT THAT, i dont have to like it , but he has to make his own decisions in life better or worse. if my son had died in the middle east id be so pissed because look today , it would have been for nothing. two generals lost thier job telling obama he was making a huge mistake,as well as the troops on the ground voiced the same opinion to stay and finish the fight. if your child enlists he may lose his life. thats a fact of life. the only thing the military garantees is a coffin and maybe a medal. they are the force known globally as the best . ppl need to act like thier kids are the badasses they are , and show them respect x10- when they are discharged. ppl need to get with the show.

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May 19, 2015

They have already claimed their flag will fly over Washington DC. We KNOW what their intentions are. ISIS is a Terrorist Army and should be dealt with appropriately.

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May 19, 2015

ISIS is not a threat to the US. We got careless with 9/11 and have since gone above and beyond several fold to an extreme just to prevent such again. What we should do is educate the people of Iraq properly. Even if we have to push them toward Islam as long as we can get them to understand their differences and focus on rebuilding Iraq and that All Iraqis are equal. We don't need occupation that'll only breed hate especially considering the false war pretense.

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May 19, 2015

The Middle East has been fighting a sectarian war of one kind or another for 3000 years! We have no hope of changing this. There is no amount of education, occupation, control that will ever change their hatred of each other. We can only hope to contain the violence in the Middle East.

If we didn't feel we needed their oil so much, we would leave them alone to their fight.

Instead of occupation, maybe we should find a way off the oil teat!

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May 19, 2015

No. No. NO. NO. no...

Saddam Hussein was the dictator of a country, a country with political power and military strength - did Hussein attack the U.S. even though it was in his scope of power to do so? No... he didn't.

ISIS is a pack of wolves who will most likely wind up eating themselves before all this is done - no real goal other than shooting people and being typical middle easterners - hot heads with zero actual goal other than blowing off steam and rattling sabers about how mighty their god is compared to any others.

Oh, and taking over the oil fields from the country, us, that took it away from them to begin with (well, us, at the behest of the Saudis, of course).

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Jul 3, 2015

isis is only good for right wing warmongers and hawks to scare the population into line so the U.S can spend lots more money on buying, with tax dollars, things to keep the American population in line and stuff to "kill the foreigners" with.

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