Originally Posted by
Ransom
It has been explained by this Member the threat on many occasions, the post you responded to doesn't claim existential threat to the US. I've repeatedly repeated they stood no chance against US military power. Again, they weren't rejected by Sunnis as you predicted, they became an existential threat to the entire Levant. Taking massive areas of Syria and Iraq. Threatening Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. Defeating Iraqi army units, Shia militias, Syrian Army attempts to quash them, and defeating and pushing back Kurdish Peshmerga. That's called an existential threat, Peter. By November 2015, in direct contradiction to your claims, they are of vital national security interests to not only this nation...but our western Allies as well. They are recognizable in direct contradiction to your claims they'd be unrecognizable.
Most importantly, in order to extract from areas they threatened to become even more the existential threat...not a threat to invade the Jersey Shore as is the deflection....but overrun Baghdad as an example....direct and overt US military force would be required. In direct contradiction to Ethereal, Peter1469, and donttread, US forces would be required to step up current covert operations and put a serious amount of soldier, material, and technology into Iraq. Artillery, air power, facilitation of the Iraq Army, current logistics and operational control as we now had Russians in Syria not to mention every terror group from al-Qaeda to Hezbollah, every militia from Sunni to Shia, every regional nation from Iran to Turkey involved.