That’s what military escalation will accomplish. Look what happened with us post-9/11. Endless, savage, unproductive war. Make that counter-productive, as we see with the rise of ISIS as a direct result of our Iraq invasion, something that at least Bernie Sanders was willing to point out at the Dem debate.
Unlike so many Dems, Sanders refuses to allow the Republicans to dictate what aspects of their performance in office are acceptable to criticize.
Nadia Prupis at Common Dreams reports some of what the few sane, prudent voices in geopolitics and media are advising.
“ISIS ‘is hoping to precipitate a Western ground offensive in Syria that would be as disastrous as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the very invasion that fed what would become the “Islamic State’,” wrote Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at the Paris School of International Affairs at Politico Sunday.
“But as Institute for Policy Studies fellow and peace activist Phyllis Bennis explained in an op-ed for The Nation, ‘wars of vengeance won’t work for France anymore than they worked for the United States.'”