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Answer: ISIS wants to battle US troops on the ground to acquire hostages and p.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest Is President Obama a coward for using airstrikes and not ground troops to battle ISIS despite ISIS's stated desire for direct, on-the-ground battle? Matt Pickering, Life is a rogue wave in a quantum sea 508 votes ISIS wants to battle US troops on the ground to acquire hostages and propaganda victories by battling and "defeating" the Great Satan. Unfortunately for them they haven't ... Read More » What people fueled the flat earth theory in the middle ages after Ancient Greek astronomers had convincingly shown that the earth is round? Tim O'Neill, Atheist, Medievalist, Sceptic and ama... 493 votes There was no "flat earth theory in the Middle Ages". The idea that people in the Middle Ages believed the earth was flat is a myth, invented by a fiction writer in the nin... Read More » Are there any functional aspects to the design of military uniforms? What I mean is, what is the use of the (for example) Lanyard, or the belt worn diagonally across the torso in some military uniforms? Kyle Murao 127 votes A lot of the elaborate details on dress uniforms are what an evolutionary biologist might call "vestigial" features. That is, they may at one point have served a signaling ... Read More » What are the best examples of the law of unintended consequences in action? Evan DeFilippis, interested in everything 1.7k votes This one is brilliant: In 2005, Americans who racked up an inconceivable amount of credit card debt realized they could file for bankruptcy to relieve themselves of any ob... Read More » Do foreigners have a bad reputation in Japan? Martin Schneider, Quality does count. 1.8k votes To a degree: yes. Generally speaking, as a foreigner in Japan, you are under a usually imperceptible - but nonetheless constant - form of mild observation. ... Read More » Why has the US military demanded and secured funds to grow its firepower to such enormously superfluous strength? Jon Davis, Writer and Blogger on Military, Veter... 491 votes Superfluous, huh? Military spending is one of those topics which is governed primarily on perception rather than reality. Facts are facts, but if you don't look at enough t... Read More » Could North Korea possibly defeat and conquer the United States? Jon Mixon 270 votes No. There’s no way that North Korea could pose a serious military threat to the United States of America, despite the events depicted in the 2012 update of the classic Red ... Read More » Why doesn't the US leave its alliance with Japan and allow it to re-arm? Dan Holliday 275 votes It wouldn't work. I don't like to start out insulting people, so I'll tread lightly. But I want to cover the human obsession with "solving problem X" by coming up with a... Read More » Do most Japanese houses look like this in 2014? Sed Chapman, Latitude 36 Attitude left 60 votes Do most Japanese houses look like this in 2014? TLDR answer - Usually no. Unlike many of the other answers here I have seen rooms that look like this. You will find rooms... Read More » Did King Arthur really exist? Erica Friedman, The Librarian is IN, 5₵ 93 votes The Welsh have records of a war leader named Arthur who fought Anglo-Saxons. He was accompanied by a band of loyal followers. We have these verbal histories of great warlo... Read More »   Read More in Your Feed This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is the best answer to any question. Unsubscribe from this email.