Politesub53
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr I haven't checked the veracity of this, but it's being reported, by a few different sources. Apparently, the Jordanian pilot was killed a month ago, right after he was captured and IS was still demanding ransom (and a "misunderstood" female suicide bomber), right before the video of this animal brutality was released. People are saying that this is also a blow for IS because their credibility (if they had any) regarding negotiations for ransom is now shot all to hell and gone; that people can now factor in: "Well, shit. We can give them the money and our people will be dead, anyway". I will posit that one of the problems with a "war on terror" is that terrorists don't have a government (although, they probably have a hierarchy). They're spread all over the place like horse shit in the lower forty (I like the analogy of scumbag terrorists to horse shit. Sue me). I think, though, that it may be fair to say that IS is using Syria as a base of operations. I said, in another thread, recently that it is time for us to stop letting Islamic scumba ... errr ... extremists bring the fight to us. It is time to bring the fight to them and this is one fight we had better fight to win, from the beginning. No "peace keeping" bullshit. They need to to be eradicated and annihilated. Michael Yet this very post shows you why it is almost impossible to take the fight to them. They have no fixed base, in an area of the world with no real borders. They move fluidly between Syria and Iraq, just as the Taliban and AQ move fluidly between Pakistan and Afghanistan. As for stopping them, well there was one thing GWB and Blair could have done (although I doubt Tony got much say) And that would have been to do what Bush Cheney et al claimed they would do. BUILD AN INCLUSIVE IRAQ. The day Bremer sacked the majority of Sunnis from any posts they held in the Government/Army, then the seeds of today were sown. AQ gained a stronghold among the Sunni, something they never had, despite georges claim, when saddam was in power. Infact back in 2010 American forces had killed most of the original leaders of ISIL, many of the new leaders come from the original Baathist officers who were under Saddam. Does anyone doubt that if they had had better equality under Shia rule, we would be where we are today.
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