2016 Election
Mar 22nd 2016 | 8:21 am
#6316
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Re: 2016 Election
ISIS are really more of an international threat at this time than they were in, say 1937.
Really all I'm getting at is that the whole ISIS/the wider Islamic world equivalency is disingenuous and shouldn't be encouraged or perpetuated but I think you probably agree on that one anyway.
Really all I'm getting at is that the whole ISIS/the wider Islamic world equivalency is disingenuous and shouldn't be encouraged or perpetuated but I think you probably agree on that one anyway.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 8:26 am
#6318
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Re: 2016 Election
Pulaski would have been ****ed - a pedant and a Slavic name 
That was my main aim. Utterly poorly implemented, of course, but you get the gist ...
That was my main aim. Utterly poorly implemented, of course, but you get the gist ...
Mar 22nd 2016 | 8:27 am
#6319
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Re: 2016 Election
It would help if the Europeans didn't do such a fine job of alienating their immigrant populations, but that would take ages to fix even if they wanted to.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 8:28 am
#6320
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Re: 2016 Election
ISIS is a byproduct of the power vacuum that was inadvertently created by the US in Iraq, so it's a bit late for that now.
It would help if the Europeans didn't do such a fine job of alienating their immigrant populations, but that would take ages to fix even if they wanted to.
It would help if the Europeans didn't do such a fine job of alienating their immigrant populations, but that would take ages to fix even if they wanted to.
It is an archetypal "well, I wouldn't start from here" situation.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 8:45 am
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Mar 22nd 2016 | 9:13 am
#6324
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Re: 2016 Election
But the point is the same. ISIS can and should be dealt with without any kind of backlash to the wider Muslim population, since ISIS is essentially against them as well.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 9:20 am
#6326
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Re: 2016 Election
Pentagon releases video of US airstrike on ISIS bank | Daily Mail Online
Sorry for the daily fail link, first one that came up.
Sorry for the daily fail link, first one that came up.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 9:23 am
#6327
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Re: 2016 Election
I have probably simplified and hyperbolized (which is now a word) the matter but here goes.
The people who are capturing and beheading people 'in the name of Allah' to further whatever cause they think they have should be dealt with clinically and definitively. Surgical strikes, in-out, done.
The Muslim guy who runs the chemist down the road who has nothing to do with any of this can be left alone.
The people who are capturing and beheading people 'in the name of Allah' to further whatever cause they think they have should be dealt with clinically and definitively. Surgical strikes, in-out, done.
The Muslim guy who runs the chemist down the road who has nothing to do with any of this can be left alone.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 9:35 am
#6328
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Re: 2016 Election
Surgical Strikes?
In the real world no such thing.
In the real world no such thing.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 9:36 am
#6329
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Re: 2016 Election
Pentagon releases video of US airstrike on ISIS bank | Daily Mail Online
Sorry for the daily fail link, first one that came up.
Sorry for the daily fail link, first one that came up.
Mar 22nd 2016 | 9:40 am
#6330
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Re: 2016 Election
I know there has to be an acceptable margin of error, I'm not naive. By 'surgical' I mean 'with as little collateral damage as possible'. At least with targeted air strikes, rather than a ground troops operation, we can try to maximize accuracy and effect.
I think everybody knows exactly what will be involved in order to correctly take on ISIS - it won't be tea parties and bake sales.
I think everybody knows exactly what will be involved in order to correctly take on ISIS - it won't be tea parties and bake sales.
