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originally posted by: tiberius10721
a reply to: Silcone Synapse
Nope I was not joking we are either at war with islam or we are not! If we are at war we fight to win if we are not at war we can sing cumbaya with them! Now you might have read what I posted and assume I'm a racist uneducated redneck but that isn't the case what I'm looking at is the way we handled the japs during ww2. Over here in the United States we put all the japs in internment camps until war was over and when japs would not surrender we dropped 2 nukes on them end of war japs surrendered and we have not had war with them since! Point I'm making we are either at war or we are not! If we are not at war then we have no buisness pretending to wage one at the expense of American and British soldiers! Army's serve 2 purposes either to attack or defend anything in between is just bs being waged by the military industrial complex!
Knowing what ISIS does to people who "aren't muslim enough", I'd keep my mouth shut. I want to avenge my family, but if they found out I'm not the muslim they think I am, I'm dead too. Not worth the risk.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
I know this wasn't directed but I wanted to respond.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
It's my hope that Jordan mobilizes some forces to go show them what a proper military looks like and how it operates.
originally posted by: amazing
I hate to interfere in other countries as well, but ISIS is a whole different thing.
We've been bombing the tar out of them and I think we'll keep it up. I think it's only going to intensify as ISIS pisses off every other country in the world.
I agree. There is no room in this world for animals like this.
This next paragraph or so is NOT directed at you.
Having said that, let me say this:
Do you ever wonder why ISIS is able to recruit so successfully? Just imagine how many children and women and elderly that we have killed in the last decade alone. How many homes, heirlooms, family pets, and lively hoods we have destroyed and how many families we have torn apart. If we stopped doing that, we might stop the steady flow of recruits. I'd fight back if drones killed my family or my children. You're lying if you say you wouldn't.
You can bet your booty I'd fight, but I wouldn't do it under the guise of some religion.
But that's the problem. just imagine that someone in your immediate family was killed in a drone strike that also destroyed your house. (This is fairly common in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.) Then ISIS shows up with a really powerful military that promises American blood. How could you not join? You're only hope of revenge, ever. Not saying it's right, but as long as we keep killing, ISIS will always recruit.
originally posted by: kosmicjack Why the hell are they so desperate to draw the west into being utterly united in the destruction of IS?
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
Knowing what ISIS does to people who "aren't muslim enough", I'd keep my mouth shut. I want to avenge my family, but if they found out I'm not the muslim they think I am, I'm dead too. Not worth the risk.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
I know this wasn't directed but I wanted to respond.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
It's my hope that Jordan mobilizes some forces to go show them what a proper military looks like and how it operates.
originally posted by: amazing
I hate to interfere in other countries as well, but ISIS is a whole different thing.
We've been bombing the tar out of them and I think we'll keep it up. I think it's only going to intensify as ISIS pisses off every other country in the world.
I agree. There is no room in this world for animals like this.
This next paragraph or so is NOT directed at you.
Having said that, let me say this:
Do you ever wonder why ISIS is able to recruit so successfully? Just imagine how many children and women and elderly that we have killed in the last decade alone. How many homes, heirlooms, family pets, and lively hoods we have destroyed and how many families we have torn apart. If we stopped doing that, we might stop the steady flow of recruits. I'd fight back if drones killed my family or my children. You're lying if you say you wouldn't.
You can bet your booty I'd fight, but I wouldn't do it under the guise of some religion.
But that's the problem. just imagine that someone in your immediate family was killed in a drone strike that also destroyed your house. (This is fairly common in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.) Then ISIS shows up with a really powerful military that promises American blood. How could you not join? You're only hope of revenge, ever. Not saying it's right, but as long as we keep killing, ISIS will always recruit.
originally posted by: tiberius10721
a reply to: crazyewok
If this was the case Isis would already be defeated because according to what I hear the good Muslims outnumber all the bad Muslims a million to one right?
I really want to believe that most of ISIS are really as radically islamic as they purport to be. This kind of barbarism without the religious, zealous hate behind it seems senseless to me.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
Knowing what ISIS does to people who "aren't muslim enough", I'd keep my mouth shut. I want to avenge my family, but if they found out I'm not the muslim they think I am, I'm dead too. Not worth the risk.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
I know this wasn't directed but I wanted to respond.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
It's my hope that Jordan mobilizes some forces to go show them what a proper military looks like and how it operates.
originally posted by: amazing
I hate to interfere in other countries as well, but ISIS is a whole different thing.
We've been bombing the tar out of them and I think we'll keep it up. I think it's only going to intensify as ISIS pisses off every other country in the world.
I agree. There is no room in this world for animals like this.
This next paragraph or so is NOT directed at you.
Having said that, let me say this:
Do you ever wonder why ISIS is able to recruit so successfully? Just imagine how many children and women and elderly that we have killed in the last decade alone. How many homes, heirlooms, family pets, and lively hoods we have destroyed and how many families we have torn apart. If we stopped doing that, we might stop the steady flow of recruits. I'd fight back if drones killed my family or my children. You're lying if you say you wouldn't.
You can bet your booty I'd fight, but I wouldn't do it under the guise of some religion.
But that's the problem. just imagine that someone in your immediate family was killed in a drone strike that also destroyed your house. (This is fairly common in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.) Then ISIS shows up with a really powerful military that promises American blood. How could you not join? You're only hope of revenge, ever. Not saying it's right, but as long as we keep killing, ISIS will always recruit.
Makes you wonder, how many of their soldiers aren't really Muslim or could care less about Sharia Law. They just want to fight and get loot and slaves!
originally posted by: tiberius10721
a reply to: crazyewok
Well if that's the case then that begs the question on why Isis is so well trained ,well funded ,well armed,and well manned then doesn't it! Where are they getting the money,weapons,ammunition ,fuel,food and manpower from? If these questions are answered you will know who the real enemy is!
originally posted by: tiberius10721
a reply to: crazyewok
Well if that's the case then that begs the question on why Isis is so well trained ,well funded ,well armed,and well manned then doesn't it! Where are they getting the money,weapons,ammunition ,fuel,food and manpower from? If these questions are answered you will know who the real enemy is!
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: flammadraco
It had crossed my mind that the Pilot had been killed much earlier than we've been told.
& yes, maybe Jordan could take a leaf out of Kim Yong Un's book in dealing with these reprobates in their custody.
originally posted by: kosmicjack
Agreed. It makes no sense.
It's a highly produced, double-down gambit against their own survival. Why the hell are they so desperate to draw the west into being utterly united in the destruction of IS?
Can't win? The U.S. could end it all in two days if they so wanted.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: kosmicjack
Agreed. It makes no sense.
It's a highly produced, double-down gambit against their own survival. Why the hell are they so desperate to draw the west into being utterly united in the destruction of IS?
Because it is highly cost effective to fight a defensive war. It is also extremely costly to fight an offensive war. ISIS believes, quite correctly that with enough bloodshed they will win any defensive war with the west and they will do it at a far lower cost. Actions like this are designed to provoke us into a war that we can't afford and we can't win.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: kosmicjack
Agreed. It makes no sense.
It's a highly produced, double-down gambit against their own survival. Why the hell are they so desperate to draw the west into being utterly united in the destruction of IS?
Because it is highly cost effective to fight a defensive war. It is also extremely costly to fight an offensive war. ISIS believes, quite correctly that with enough bloodshed they will win any defensive war with the west and they will do it at a far lower cost. Actions like this are designed to provoke us into a war that we can't afford and we can't win.