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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #50 on: September 12, 2014, 05:52:22 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on September 12, 2014, 05:19:32 PM
You are including in this a failed bombing with a blackpowder bomb that killed nobody and injured nobody.

Also, another ISIS commander is dead.

Which one are you saying was failed bombing?
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #51 on: September 12, 2014, 07:01:16 PM »
The Times Square bombing.
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #52 on: September 12, 2014, 10:13:00 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on September 12, 2014, 07:01:16 PM
The Times Square bombing.
Still counts as a terrorist attack.  Simply because of IIRC, bad chemistry and dumb luck that we did not have another earth-shattering kaboom with that one.
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #53 on: September 14, 2014, 03:59:01 AM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #54 on: September 14, 2014, 11:29:59 PM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #55 on: September 14, 2014, 11:48:19 PM »
I'll stick with my contention that ISIS is not a function of some massive new scary threat, merely that of the power vacuum in the Middle East in this area. The Kurds are still holding their own. As is anyone capable of organizing and fighting.

Turkey would kick their ass, Iran would kick their ass. Jordan would kick their ass. Saudi Arabia would kick their ass. Egypt would kick their ass.

Israel would kick their ass, then grind the remaining ass chunks to dust, use the dust to make some sort of solid concrete out of them so they could then blow it up again.

The U.S. would vaporize them (non nuclear) and make the Iraq War I "highway of death" look like a minor skirmish. Except that we'd be hamstrung by some sort of crappy ROE.
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #56 on: September 15, 2014, 11:34:16 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on September 14, 2014, 11:48:19 PM
I'll stick with my contention that ISIS is not a function of some massive new scary threat, merely that of the power vacuum in the Middle East in this area. The Kurds are still holding their own. As is anyone capable of organizing and fighting.

Turkey would kick their ass, Iran would kick their ass. Jordan would kick their ass. Saudi Arabia would kick their ass. Egypt would kick their ass.

Israel would kick their ass, then grind the remaining ass chunks to dust, use the dust to make some sort of solid concrete out of them so they could then blow it up again.

The U.S. would vaporize them (non nuclear) and make the Iraq War I "highway of death" look like a minor skirmish. Except that we'd be hamstrung by some sort of crappy ROE.

Turkey and Iran perhaps, but Jordan and (especially) Saudi Arabia would be less certain, and Egypt would have a considerable (and probably terminal) internal security problem if it came to the point where it was IS vs the Sisi regime. 
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #57 on: September 15, 2014, 11:48:33 AM »
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I'll stick with my contention that ISIS is not a function of some massive new scary threat, merely that of the power vacuum in the Middle East in this area. The Kurds are still holding their own. As is anyone capable of organizing and fighting.

ISIL/ISIS is an invention of our CIA/State Department. They are the ones that let the genie out of the bottle, its too bad that American servicemen are going to be the ones that are going to have to mop up the mess. The whole Benghazi debacle was to cover up the transactions where the American government was arming these radicals.

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Some are speculating that some of the people in this picture might now be members of the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL or ISIS), the extremist group now taking over major cities in Iraq. - See more at: http://rare.us/story/did-john-mccain-take-selfies-with-isis/#sthash.rLeq62Td.dpuf
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #58 on: September 16, 2014, 02:51:42 AM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #59 on: September 16, 2014, 03:01:46 AM »
Now you gonna spoil it with facts? Kill joy.


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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #60 on: September 16, 2014, 07:05:36 AM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #61 on: September 16, 2014, 11:09:21 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on September 16, 2014, 07:05:36 AM
Kurds advance against ISIL in Syria.

Are we for or against the Kurds right now?  It's so hard to keep up  :lol:
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #62 on: September 16, 2014, 02:05:29 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on September 16, 2014, 11:09:21 AM
Are we for or against the Kurds right now?  It's so hard to keep up  :lol:

Yep, hard to know which whey to go with the Kurds.
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #63 on: September 16, 2014, 02:12:29 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on September 16, 2014, 02:05:29 PM
Yep, hard to know which whey to go with the Kurds.

No holes in that argument. This place wouldn't be the same without the cheesy puns.
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #64 on: September 16, 2014, 02:19:25 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on September 16, 2014, 02:51:42 AM
No, these are not ISIL/McCain selfies.

I say good anyway. Republicans like McCain do more damage than the Left. 
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #65 on: September 16, 2014, 02:48:54 PM »
Quote from: SADShooter on September 16, 2014, 02:12:29 PM
No holes in that argument. This place wouldn't be the same without the cheesy puns.

Indeed, a ban on cheesy puns would curdle the atmosphere.  Enough so that some would be feta'd up with it before long.

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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #66 on: September 19, 2014, 04:16:26 AM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #67 on: September 19, 2014, 04:25:49 AM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #68 on: September 19, 2014, 04:52:13 AM »
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #69 on: September 19, 2014, 05:05:51 AM »
Quote from: roo_ster on September 16, 2014, 02:48:54 PM
Indeed, a ban on cheesy puns would curdle the atmosphere.  Enough so that some would be feta'd up with it before long.



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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #70 on: September 19, 2014, 11:01:01 AM »
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America strikes from the air, ISIL cowards' advance halted.

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #71 on: September 19, 2014, 11:42:30 AM »
People who claim to be willing to die for their god, and yet often surrender, run away, etc. when faced with the remotest resistance, are cowards.
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #72 on: September 19, 2014, 11:51:00 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on September 19, 2014, 11:42:30 AM
People who claim to be willing to die for their god, and yet often surrender, run away, etc. when faced with the remotest resistance, are cowards.

There seems to have been evidence of plenty of ISIS folk being sent to the afterlife.  Also, withdrawing to fight and commit atrocity another day is not necessarily cowardice.

FTR, Evil != Cowardice. 
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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #73 on: September 19, 2014, 12:27:09 PM »
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It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: American Journalist #2 Beheaded by ISIS
« Reply #74 on: September 19, 2014, 12:51:38 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on September 19, 2014, 11:51:00 AM
There seems to have been evidence of plenty of ISIS folk being sent to the afterlife.  Also, withdrawing to fight and commit atrocity another day is not necessarily cowardice.


Do you not think it'd have been a bit different if ISIL were, instead, Chechen guerillas from 1999?
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