I can't blame the french president he was almost killed last night. and as much as i disagree with Putin this time I do, attacking a world leader is an act of war.

And I support it, ISIS has had this coming for a long time, and it's only getting worse the more we ignore it. Airstrikes are only so effective as long as these cowards have caves and towns to occupy when they hear our planes coming.

Punishing ISIS I can agree with... but I am scared for another reason: Nukes... and Russia still has plenty of them.

And? So does everyone else. If Russia uses them on a tactically precise location well out of the way of any of ours, it shouldn't be a concern, and I highly doubt Putin would be stupid enough to launch one towards countries who have such an arsenal. Plus, you're acting like turning that over-sized litterbox into a glass parking lot is going to bring tears to anyone's eyes... Well maybe to anyone staring at the initial flash when their eyes melt.

In WW2, Japan had that same honor and glory in death attitude as these goatfuckers do, and when we came in with the bombs and told them we'd bathe all their country in nuclear hellfire, and after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they knew we would, so they wisely surrendered. Japan didn't have a means of retaliating such firepower, and neither does ISIS. It was a vile, brutal strategy, but it worked. We would have been much worse if we didn't occupy and help them rebuild what we destroyed, and STAYED there until we knew for sure they could stand on their own again.

There is a big diffrence between Japan and ISIS: Japan is a country and their leader atleast cared about his people back then. So when those bombs fell, he realized the consequences if he were to dare to challenge such a firepower. That's why they surrendered. They didn't want their own people to suffer anymore after the bombs fell over Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

ISIS? It is a movement and while Syria is their homeland, they aren't exactly a static army so to speak. And it can move everywhere. So even if Syria gets nuked, ISIS would just relocate if they even get the wind of Putin deciding to fiddle with the nuke key. Also ontop of that, if that one tactical nuke dont wipe out ISIS in one shot and even one splinter survives by being elsewhere... they will do whatever it takes to retaliate. Revenge is a deadly cycle.. And who is to say they wont nuke not just Russia, but several countries at once?

Nukes are weapons we should never use lightly. Ontop of the initial explosion, we have the fallout and that dont dissipate overnight exactly. There are huge consequences to use such a weapon.

That said, ISIS needs to be put down, but we must tread lightly. One wrong step and the whole world could be sparked into World War III, even with best of intentions.

That is what makes me scared. As we already dodged one bullet from the Cuba crisis during the Cold War..

Then Russia probably may go on in with FOABs, powerful, thermobaric non-nuclear explosives. Less political and nuclear fallout.

Plus, if Assad is willing to shell and bomb his own cities and townspeople to get rid of a few militants, I don't think he's going to care if Russia comes in and melts a few towns in the process to get rid of ISIS and ISIS-backed militants.

Regardless, if we're scared to level towns full of ISIS militants, send troops in to circulate and eliminate the savages. It's what we should have done when this whole thing started when ISIS was only 13,000 strong. Have the 64 nations in this coalition each send in 20-50,000 of their troops (ours included), putting it a combined total of 1,280,000 to 3,200,000 professional and well-equipped killers from the 21st century, with the intent to destroy ISIS. Encircle them, advance inward, choke them to death and STAY in regions recaptured from them until we know they're gone.

Now because we and the rest of the west kept pussyfooting and dragging our heels, they're spread out all over the place, and dealing with this in that fashion will be much harder than it would have been. Unless we get a new president that actually has the balls, spine, heart AND brain to address this issue and tackle it for what it is, then this perpetual cycle is just going to keep going, and more innocent people will continue to suffer. So far the only ones taking necessary action now is Russia, and I give them my support, because unlike my country, they don't fuck around with that politically correct bullshit.

flare please be careful out there... im worried about you *hugs you tightly*