aiccia

the world is not black and white, there are many different strategies out there.

I would suggest Containment, cold war style, with a very strong media/propaganda war to confront the ISIS propaganda. Then also we need to change the perception of the US in the Muslim world the way we did in Europe and Japan at the end of WW2 by offering massive economic opportunities to people and businesses to help rebuild the communities we have destroyed.

Our Cold War Strategy: containment, till it falls apart.

There's a big difference between an individual volunteering to assist on their own time and at their own peril vs committing the US military and taxpayers to casualties and a drawn out war.

From our perspective maybe but I'm sure the locals will just see him as another American military person. Its often easy to spot former military. They keep the short haircut, the lean muscular frame, the camo.

If its a middle east problem with a middle east solution, why are you going over there?

You said previously because it could be a badass adventure that could end up doing some good...but hasn't the Teddy Roosevelt style of interfering in conflicts and cultures that we don't really understand been discredited over the last 12 years?

I wanted to support you when I thought your primary agency was a moral imperative, but now it seems like you're just looking for adventure in places that are fucked up precisely because there have been too many "adventurous" US military intrusions.