Man it sure does suck that the middle east literally has no troops of its own from the various countries that could act as ground troops.
Just sucks nobody in those countries volunteered to serve their country.
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Right now the Arab nations have their hands full with Yemen. Intervening in Syria would probably end up causing a war between Iran and the Gulf Arab states.
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But doesn't the combined number of troops from the various countries number in at least the several millions range? Admittedly I heard that from Bill Maher so make of that what you will.
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On the other hand if they are going to be bothering to actually send in ground troops then I say why don't they send enough troops to wipe ISIS off the map?
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Well here's the thing about the Gulf States. They're well equipped and when they pull their resources together they have lots of manpower, but most of them have militaries that are basically created for internal security first and territorial defense second. They aren't militaries for launching foreign campaigns.
The only two countries in the Middle East who could launch a full-scale ground intervention in Syria are Egypt and Turkey. But both of them are more distracted by internal problems right now, with Egypt fighting ISIS-alligned militants in the Sinai and Turkey quarreling with its Kurdish population and the PKK. Also, Egypt is basically on friendly terms with Al-Assad because they share a common distrust of Western meddling and Islamists and both want to keep their people oppressed.
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to him who loved them so.
Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
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