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High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:25pm PT
Please don't post any gruesome pics. If that's your thing, go elsewhere for it. But a discussion concerning isis and the caliphate, I think, could be worth having.

I thought this one regarding the caliphate from british muslims was informative...

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXHg9AY6M2k
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:27pm PT
Please don't post any gruesome pics. If that's your thing, go elsewhere for it. But a discussion concerning isis and the caliphate, I think, could be worth deleting .

FTFY
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:29pm PT
You know, you've done that twice now, taken my comments, put them quotes and changed them. That's messed up.

Don't like the campfire, seek another one.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:32pm PT
Don't like the campfire, seek another one.

Don't need to change this one.



*edit* FTFY means "Fixed that for you." I'm not sure how hard I need to break down what that means but the whole point is that I'm not perfectly quoting you. I'm making it obvious...because that's the point.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:34pm PT
Well, just educate yourself then. Your ignorance and arrogance, two sides of some coin, are in the way.

.....

Applies equally to each of the three Abrahamic religions...

"The problem I have with religion - at every point on the spectrum from moderate to extreme - is that it stands as a permanent denial of the possibility of developing a truly rational, modern, open-ended discussion about the nature of our subjectivity, about the possibility of ethics and spirituality truly in conformity with our rationality as it exists now. Every religious person, every person who is committed to still being a Christian or Jew or Muslim or Buddhist is essentially giving tacit endorsement to the religious divisions in our world and essentially saying we need some measure of mythology, we need some measure of fairytale, we need to pretend on some occasions that we know things that we do not know. And it's simply untrue."

Sam Harris
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:36pm PT
If a lack of eagerness to demonize Muslims is ignorance then I'm pretty blissful.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:39pm PT
For starters, I recognize "demon" and "demonize" as Abrahamic religous concepts the world could do without.

How about "problem solve" in the interest of 21st century civilization instead.

Food for thought: Perhaps I don't like globalization (or global civilization) any more than you do, I don't know, but it's here to stay. Correct identification of the problem is half the solution to solving the problem. (the saying goes...) So burying your head in the sand re: fundies of Islam or jihadis of Islam is a non-starter.
PAUL SOUZA

Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:39pm PT
I was surprised how unfreaked out the journalist was as he read the message, and even how he didn't struggle as the final act was occurring.

I didn't watch it and don't care to.

He likely knew what was coming and was probably dissociating to ease his suffering.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:42pm PT
Daniel Pearl knew what was coming and his beheading was gruesome as hell.

HFCS posted
For starters, I recognize "demon" and "demonize" as Abrahamic religous concepts the world could do without.

Much like your posting.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:42pm PT
Isis....oh, I thought this was about Tackle's route on Denali.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:46pm PT
Ah, Isis. Did you know Cleopatra was the Daughter of Isis (just as Ptolemy was the Son of Amon-Re and Jesus was the Son of Yahweh). It's true. Research it. Gods were a dime a dozen back then. Before Yahweh was institutionalized (beginning with Constantine and refined by Europe); and before half of America was mesmerized by it.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:48pm PT
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sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:49pm PT
how many heads could a wahabi jihadi chuck, if he could chuck, would chuck, heads?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:50pm PT
Really, nothing more informative or intellectual (yeah, I know, in America this is a bad word)? Then how about a beer down at the slough? ;)

hddj, you need to step down from your superciliousness - better, supercilious arrogance - that's my beta for you today.

Maybe you're reading too much Slate or Guardian, I don't know? but you need a more balanced perspective regarding the world of Islamists and what they believe.

Did you even bother with aforementioned video? Probably not. Show the world you're not operating out of a bubble or echochamber much like the Repubs and get informed. Till, you're an embarrassment even on a climbing site, lol!

.....

hddj, *edit* FTFY means "Fixed that for you." I'm not sure how hard I need to break down what that means but the whole point is that I'm not perfectly quoting you. I'm making it obvious

FTFY was clear enough. You're "sure" about more than you know, imo. That's the comedy / tragedy here.
CrackAddict

Trad climber
Canoga Park, CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:51pm PT
Religions are all evil, IMO, in varying degrees. Not all are completely rotten though, you never hear of Satan worshipers committing acts like this.
Chewybacca

Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
Aug 19, 2014 - 04:53pm PT
Oh Mighty Isis...


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High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:04pm PT
Truth is, Skept, whatever Bush and US and all others have done and are doing, it's certainly stirred the pot. I like to think that out of that, long-term at least, good will come of it. That's the hope. Thank goodness for today's young people who will have a better chance, owing to their higher education and savvy (global, scientific, etc), of seeing through the mess.

.....

It's a damn shame our generations have to go through this - but I guess, at bottom, it's the nature of nature. Every era has its Scylla and Charybdis.
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:12pm PT
ISIS is a classic pathocracy on the march---like the Nazis on a blitzkrieg in the early stages of WW2. There are other numerous examples throughout history.
These movements are usually directed front and center by remorseless psychopaths who are not driven by humane motivations. Don't expect them to have a conscience or to act like normal people. Expect them to move fast and do a lot of killing.
In one case their justifications are religious, in another it might be race domination, or in another a draconian political ideology.
Their real motivations are shared by psychopaths everywhere ----a ruthless control and power over others.

BTW I would blame Obama more than Bush for the current conflagration there. His initial arming and support of the anti-Assad rebel forces ( the original ISIS) while simultaneously accelerating the withdrawal from Iraq--- all led to a power vacuum which ISIS rushed into. Thoroughly incompetent and egregiously stupid ---with both Kerry and Clinton deserving additional blame for their monumental brain-deadness. All of them are really bad jokes on the international scene----even more than Bush was, as hard as that is to believe.
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:13pm PT
If I were a conspiracy guy then I would bet dimes to doughnuts that Isis is a front to keep the war machine rolling. I have no information to back up my hunch. Pure imagination.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:25pm PT
HFCS posted
Really, nothing more informative or intellectual (yeah, I know, in America this is a bad word)? Then how about a beer down at the slough? ;)

hddj, you need to step down from your superciliousness - better, supercilious arrogance - that's my beta for you today.

Did you even bother with aforementioned video? Probably not. Show the world you're not operating out of a bubble or echochamber much like the Repubs and get informed. Till, you're an embarrassment even on a climbing site, lol!

Is immediately ironic advice your whole gimmick? Cause I'm digging it.

HFCS posted
FTFY was clear enough.

Then why so mad, dad?
thebravecowboy

climber
in the face of the fury of the funk
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:26pm PT
I thought McCain was the big proponent of arming the anti-Assad militias
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:27pm PT
He is. So much so that he ran over there and got his picture taken with a bunch of them. Then those guys went on to become part of ISIS and blow up a bunch of kids. Oops.

(I learned that from watching too much Slate on the Guardian.)
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
I thought McCain was the big proponent of arming the anti-Assad militias

McCain lost the election to Obama in 2008.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:30pm PT
And with it, all power and authority in government?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
The problem with dingbat lefties is that they detract from the good causes and good sense of fellow lefties.

If anyone knows how to solve this problem, I'm all ears.

.....

Then why so mad, dad?

ANS Good cause. You step on my rope, you bolt cracks, you litter the belay stations. Clear enough, I hope.

Think before doing (in this case posting) would be a good start toward amelioration. (Do you know this word?)
thebravecowboy

climber
in the face of the fury of the funk
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
Yes, per the electoral process, Ward. What (with regard to ISIS) would be different if he had not?
thebravecowboy

climber
in the face of the fury of the funk
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:36pm PT
HFCS: I propose aerial application of high-potency LSD in all populated areas held by ISIS followed by an aggressive air-drop of paper-format XXX porn. But that's just me.
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
Yes, per the electoral process, Ward. What (with regard to ISIS) would be different if he had not?

No one knows the answer to that question --- it is just this side of meaningless as far as this issue is concerned.

On the other hand we know what the current President did. It is not in the realm of worthless speculation.
Keep your eye on the ball.
This is no time to defend a miserably stupid series of incompetent actions.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:41pm PT
Now you're talkin...

HFCS: I propose aerial application of high-potency LSD...

Yeah, that would be awesome! Break down the pales. Push the envelope.

Culture shock!

For the coup d'é·tat, could we air drop in Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and that twerking chick? lol!

Talk about stirring the pot! My kind of Renaissance 2.0!!
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:47pm PT
HFCS
Think before doing (in this case posting) would be a good start toward amelioration. (Do you know this word?)

I'm still looking up supercilious so give me a few. I'm assuming it means "thinking you're superior to others" because you've got this whole ironic advice gimmick (which I'm still totally loving).
thebravecowboy

climber
in the face of the fury of the funk
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
So, please help me to understand your point here, Mr. Trotter: is it that Obama is in league with ISIS, or just too limp to do the right thing and get back in there on the ground?



And yes, HFCS, I think a USO-style pop-culture pomp and bombast ceremony for our newly installed regional strongman, Kanye Middle East, might just cap off the solution perfectly. I mean, the poor guy doesn't really know opulence until he's got Saddam's Au AK, does he?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
JB, speaking of butthurt... are you still? since learning you're an automaton? Please, save it - your personal grievances against science, science edu, religious criticism, etc. - for another thread or your local bar, this thread should be about ISIS or the Caliphate.
ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:02pm PT
Isis....oh, I thought this was about Tackle's route on Denali.

funny, I thought it would be about Archer


Muslims are wack. I'll say it. Totally get "the beef" with 'Murrica, but beheading d00dz is decidedly un-fly.

Totally down with Palestine, however. They somehow show adequate restraint: instead of executing Western journalists, they merely throw stones at tanks and accept Israeli-fired rockets.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:04pm PT
HFCS
JB, speaking of butthurt... are you still? since learning you're an automaton? Please, save it - your personal grievances against science, science edu, religious criticism, etc. - for another thread or your local bar, this thread should be about ISIS or the Caliphate.

HFCS, speaking of butthurt, why'd you delete your caliphate thread?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:10pm PT
HFCS, speaking of butthurt, why'd you delete your caliphate thread?

Because someone posted gruesome pictures on it that I thought were unnecessary.

It's still there in the archives if anyone wants to reference it (incl the first post which I subsumed under my second post). Bottom line: All I was suggesting there is the Caliphate ambition is something to pay attention to under the Current Affairs Studies category.

.....

No JB, you're on nothing less than a wild goose chase with that one. My passion is science and science education - just as yours might be climbing, I don't know. When someone pisses on it, though, I get involved. It's as simple as that.
WBraun

climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
HFCS would be the first guy beheaded by the ISIS.

They can smell a fanatic from a mile away ......
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
stuffed shirt misanthrope

Notice who's doing the name calling here. Speaks volumes in itself. Between you and the Lapdog, there's not much left.

What you and the Lapdog might remember - or really learn for the first time in your lives - maybe ? - is that science isn't just another ideology but in fact a description of how the universe REALLY works.

Insofar as you have a beef or two or thre, it should be with nature itself - not science not me or any scientist - we're just the messengers.

Maybe some "growing up" on your part is called for here.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:39pm PT
Most of the people on Earth want to live in peace and enjoy life with their family and friends.

Duh.

Then there's the utopian sh#t disturbers who go on about a new way of being human.

Yeah, you mean like Stalin, Hitler, Bush and Cheney and other neocons and Evangelicals, and now ISIS.

autonomism...

You can't even spell it, lol!

I bet you were a friggin bully in high school, yes? You waste my time.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 06:44pm PT
What's the common theme here? None of those guys got none as teens and then
they really went into tailspin, pardon the pun. If you ain't gettin' none
then you gotta come up with some reason to justify why you still ain't.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 07:17pm PT
I've been warning you asshats for years about this sh#t.

And yet, I get called an Islamophobe, hater,. etc...

You will not take it seriously until it hits your city, or God forbid, your family. Like the Boston bombing.

Kill them all THERE before they get here. We DO have a wide-open southern border. It's not hard to get into this country.

This sh#t should be common f*#king sense! Wake up!!!!
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 07:56pm PT
I'm here for your amusement, Jimmy. Glad you can laugh over this.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 19, 2014 - 08:35pm PT
War on women? Here ya go...

http://patdollard.com/2014/08/pure-evil-islamic-state-tie-woman-to-car-and-split-her-in-two/

ripped in half as others of her village are buried alive with children.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 20, 2014 - 08:39am PT
re: ISIS, Muslims and libs

"However, there is another thing I do get emotional about—and that’s the threat of Islam, especially when it is systematically obfuscated by my fellow liberals who should know better. If you want to get to the core of my response, emotionally, here is the kind of thing that drives me absolutely nuts: If a Jewish artist in New York covered a copy of the Koran in pig blood, and the act were well publicized, half the Muslims on earth would take to the streets. But when a group like ISIS starts crucifying noncombatants, or attempts to starve 40,000 men, women, and children to death on the side of a mountain, there are no significant protests at all. This psychopathic skewing of priorities extends not only to the “Arab street” and its lynch mobs; it extends to the talking heads on CNN. Spokesmen for a group like CAIR, devious blowhards like Reza Aslan, and liberal apologists like Glenn Greenwald would also attack the artist—and, if he got butchered by a jihadist on Park Avenue, they would say that although such violence had nothing at all to do with the noble of faith of Islam, the poor bastard surely got what was coming to him. He was too provocative; he should have had more “religious sensitivity.” And yet these people say scarcely a word about the mass murders of Muslims, by Muslims, committed on a daily basis in a score of countries."

Sam Harris to Andrew Sullivan
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/making-sense-of-gaza

"Everything we needed to know about the masochism and moral blindness of the Left, we should have learned during the Salman Rushdie affair. There we saw the whole problem in miniature—the infantile rage of religious maniacs concerned about their so-called “dignity” side-by-side with the complacency, sanctimony, hypocrisy, and cowardice of their liberal apologists."
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 20, 2014 - 10:00am PT
HFCS, great video at the beginning of the thread.

To hear Muslims debating this subject is awesome.

The western shirt brother at 8:30ish was my favorite commentary.
Oh, the women also had the best comments.




ISIS is a product of stupid American meddling all over the planet .....

ISIS is a product of religion and religious zealots, period.
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
Aug 20, 2014 - 10:08am PT
What I really can't fathom is how anyone can inflict such a thing on another. I can understand defending oneself when faced with an armed agressor bent on doing one harm. But to calmly carry out such an act on someone incapable of fighting back?

Also, why does the killer need to hide his identity if he truly believes his cause is just and he has the support of Muslims "world wide?"

I just don't get it.


Obviously you don't get it. How could a person from a western country and with a functioning brain comprehend the idea of cutting some random person's head in the name of god. It is sad that people can still be brainwashed by religious nuts. Such a powerful tool, damn. Really sad about the guy who died and his family must be going through hell now. RIP.
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Aug 20, 2014 - 10:24am PT

I once read somewhere that ISIS is special tactical op group paid and financed by Saudis and Qatar government, and supplied by Israeli to DE-stabilize ME ( Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria in particular ).


Why ?

For years Nato has been working to corner Russia so they could access Russian oil and gas supply. As most of you do not know, Russian supplies great deal of gas and oil to Europe so plan B was to run a backup oil and gas pipeline from Qatar and Saudi via Iraq and Syria to Europe but that agenda did not go well. plan C was to change the Gov of Syria to get this pipeline a across but as usual, it failed also so Plan D came along to create ISIS .Next phase of ISIS is to create global panic so war on terror can continue for ever and yet, get this pipeline across ME to Europe.

Is not for Islam or to take down the Jews or Christians.....blah blah blah,

It is all for OIL






High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 20, 2014 - 10:30am PT

It is all for OIL

Yeah, and climbing is all for wearing a sit harness.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Aug 20, 2014 - 10:47am PT
With great reluctance, I need to weigh in. This is nothing new, and nothing unique to (or even originating from) Abrahamic religion, as any student of ancient history can tell you.

Unfortunately, it's not confined to ancient history. In 1915, in Kharpert (now Harpoot or Harput, Turkey) my mother was jailed, and my grandfather tortured and killed, for the "crime" of being Christian Armenians. Any Muslim Armenians were immediately released. My mother escaped only because her uncle (my grandfather's brother) was a professor in a German seminary, and the German government intervened before anything more could happen to them.

My mother, at age 102, still has her mind, and can tell you about it, although she would rather not. She maintains no animus against the Turks, nor any against Islam per se, but she knows how to differentiate evil from good. ISIS has no mitigating attributes for its barbarism. It disgusts me that some on the forum would blame others for ISIS's actions. It isn't about religion (else, how to explain the mass murders of those famous religious adherents Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al.). It is simply the manifestation of moral bankruptcy.

A belief that a lawless group has the right to murder, plunder or otherwise abuse anyone else is simply and profoundly evil, regardless of whether it's cloaked in religion, ideology, anti-racism or any other excuse. The idea that a lawful government can do the same is equally despicable. We can argue over what the United States has the power and the duty to do regarding a well-dsiciplined but immorally violent group like ISIS, but trying to assess blame anywhere but the perpetrators demonstrates a most distressing abdication of responsibility to deal with it.

John
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 20, 2014 - 11:40am PT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/19/medieval-cruelty-in-modern-times-isis-beheads-american-journalist.html



Yo ISIS, guess what? Hell is coming for you from the wings of the greatest Air Force and Navy pilots in the world.


Sorry folks, sometimes Sergeant Birchell comes out.



http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/18/world/meast/iraq-mosul-dam/
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Aug 20, 2014 - 02:30pm PT
There are great evils. They do not last long. Goodbye ISIS.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 20, 2014 - 07:35pm PT
My mother, at age 102, still has her mind, and can tell you about it, although she would rather not. She maintains no animus against the Turks, nor any against Islam per se, but she knows how to differentiate evil from good. ISIS has no mitigating attributes for its barbarism. It disgusts me that some on the forum would blame others for ISIS's actions. It isn't about religion (else, how to explain the mass murders of those famous religious adherents Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al.). It is simply the manifestation of moral bankruptcy.

A belief that a lawless group has the right to murder, plunder or otherwise abuse anyone else is simply and profoundly evil, regardless of whether it's cloaked in religion, ideology, anti-racism or any other excuse. The idea that a lawful government can do the same is equally despicable. We can argue over what the United States has the power and the duty to do regarding a well-dsiciplined but immorally violent group like ISIS, but trying to assess blame anywhere but the perpetrators demonstrates a most distressing abdication of responsibility to deal with it.

John


I could not agree more, John.

What you and your mother are probably too dignified to say publicly, I will.

Kill all these people that do this! These people are evil incarnate. These people are not welcome into the society of mankind, they are demons. That is the only way I can find to describe someone who would personally sever the head of another innocent person.

It's f*#king sickening to me, and it makes me very angry.

EDIT:
Yo ISIS, guess what? Hell is coming for you from the wings of the greatest Air Force and Navy pilots in the world.


Sorry folks, sometimes Sergeant Birchell comes out.

It's o.k. to oppose rats like this, Bruce. But you know this....
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 08:52am PT

"If you can believe it, I'm hearing from people who think ISIS has nothing to do with Islam (because Scott Atran says so)."

Sam Harris, tweet
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 23, 2014 - 08:58am PT
Hell may not be coming for ISIS except in isolated instances as Obama does not seem to
want to, at least publicly now, commit to a major confrontation with them. This is partly because a major escalation could or, at least be seen to, benefit Assad.
There just ain't no free lunch.

It turns out they are likely holding four other Americans.
Steve Rathbun

climber
Outer Lurkistan
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:16am PT
Kill them all THERE before they get here. We DO have a wide-open southern border. It's not hard to get into this country.

interesting, I keep hearing this from my Christian friends.
dirtbag

climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:44am PT
If there was a magic vaporizer gun, where one could pull a trigger, and poof!, all the identified ISISers would disappear without collateral damage, then do it, pull the trigger. These people are evil mother f*#kers. But we don't have that. So how should we kill them all without making problems worse?

On the other hand, I also understand the skepticism and reluctance to engage in another damned fool adventure in the middle east. Our track record is lousy.
dirtbag

climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:46am PT
I remember that "Isis" TV show from the 70s. That Isis actress was smokin' hot!
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 10:00am PT
It's just a mess, isn't it dirtbag? in the end even pitting lib against lib, a-theist against a-theist, anti-theist against anti-theist, climber against climber. And making strange bedfellows, too.

Speaking of such, now it looks like US will be teaming up with Assad Syria.

In the meantime, we can remember Ken M from the good old days...
How Doctors Die

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/
dirtbag

climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 10:17am PT
It is a mess. And we need to have a serious discussion, because I'm afraid this one will be difficult to ignore.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 23, 2014 - 12:02pm PT
HFCS, in your video on young muslims, I was more struck by the difference between male and females.

Of course, in most concepts of a caliphate, the males are the masters, and the females are the slaves, and they all know that.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 23, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
It isn't about religion (else, how to explain the mass murders of those famous religious adherents Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al.). It is simply the manifestation of moral bankruptcy.

A belief that a lawless group has the right to murder, plunder or otherwise abuse anyone else is simply and profoundly evil, regardless of whether it's cloaked in religion, ideology, anti-racism or any other excuse. The idea that a lawful government can do the same is equally despicable. We can argue over what the United States has the power and the duty to do regarding a well-dsiciplined but immorally violent group like ISIS, but trying to assess blame anywhere but the perpetrators demonstrates a most distressing abdication of responsibility to deal with it.

John, you beat me to the punch.

I so agree. We have similar genocides in the last century that either we or our parents remember---Cambodia, that killed 1/4 of the population of the country, and Soviet Union, that killed millions upon millions. And those two did not involve religious people.

Religion is not the common denominator in this. In fact, it may be a cleverly concocted "cover story"---just like UBL created when he sent 18 Saudis in airplanes to attack the US, hoping we would retaliate against Saudi Arabia.

You actually wonder if what is hoped for is a widespread attack by the west on Islam, FORCING all muslims in the world to move towards ISIS, like all jews in the world moved toward Israel. It would be a clever strategy to manipulate all the westerners in this way......
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 23, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
It is also easy to forget that many, I'd say most, muslims are peaceful people. And that in the areas where ISIS is located, those peaceful people are being eradicated.

It is the nature of things that when a violent, aggressive power runs up against a peaceful, passive power, the latter tends to suffer mightily. Right now, it is largely muslims that are suffering from encounters with ISIS.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 23, 2014 - 06:27pm PT
Is this thread gonna disappear like the last one?

Yo ISIS, guess what? Hell is coming for you from the wings of the greatest Air Force and Navy pilots in the world.

That's worked so well in the past, right? In fact, the only beneficiaries are the "defense" industries.

The arms we left, are now being used by the Islamic State. They captured 52 155mm howitzers. Ever see one in action?

I think Baghdad is going down. Eventually, someone will slip them AA rockets and we'll lose some planes. We'll need to evacuate our wasted Billion Dollar Embassy. All the Shia need to do, will convert. Here's a clue.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 23, 2014 - 07:12pm PT
There are many, who view the Sadaam Hussein days, with nostalgia. The Islamic State, will stabilize the region, eventually. It's the kind of harsh administration, required in the Islamic World.

Bear in mind, the people living in Northern Iraq, let us twist in the wind for ten years. There has to be a downside for failure to support our efforts to make them a viable country. They can enjoy the benefits of Sharia Law.

The State is different than other terrorist groups, they have administration skills.

What we do need to do though, is destroy all our stuff they captured. I think Iran can "contain" them to the East. Eventually, they will be on the Israeli border.

The danger for us, is when they operate in Turkey. That's a NATO ally.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 23, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
John, D, there is danger in this for us.

I believe it is to attack all muslims, everywhere. Remember that they DO have nukes (Pakistan). Turning those relative moderates into our enemies is probably not the right strategy....or any other moderates.

Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Aug 23, 2014 - 07:24pm PT
My Gawd does NO ONE remember the "NUKE A GAY WHALE UNTIL IT GLOWS" campaign?

So we have a President who has mentally checked out of his job.

So we have a bunch of armed loonies running around in sand dunes.

So we have a Talking Duck with smoke blowing out its ass.

Come one peeps - this is just another in a long line of pseudo-crises concocted by "Involved Parties" to get us to justify spending BILLIONS more fake dollars to DEFEND THE FREE WORLD (patent pending).

So this prick got Chopped - ever watch Game of Thrones?

This is America.

We LIVE for this sh#t.

Just dump some ICE WATER on somebody and write a check and get over it because next week some OTHER CRISES will be the tweetoftheday.

WBraun

climber
Aug 23, 2014 - 07:28pm PT
Ricky D -- "We LIVE for this sh#t."

Nope .... I sure don't.

Only stupid Americans like you do ......
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Aug 23, 2014 - 07:29pm PT
Hessian F*#khead.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 23, 2014 - 07:42pm PT
I don't think 10% of the overweight slugs I see sporting a US Military Uniform, could've kept up with one of my AIT "Speed Marches". I'm starting to have a greater appreciation for the 2d amendment, when the millions of Muslims here start going apesh#t.

I do believe that Turkey is their number one priority. They need it, as a gateway for the thousands of recruits they have pouring in from all over the world.


Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Aug 23, 2014 - 08:00pm PT
Don't get bent Chief - but since I live surrounded by SandBoxVets I can attest that these ESCAPEESFROMKANSASTRAILERPARKS have been turned into jackedupspeedfreaks by your beloved Military.

Better living through chemistry and all that jazz.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 23, 2014 - 08:15pm PT
Read their playbook here.

http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf

And yes it is all about fundamental Islam.

It's a throwback to the tactics and strategy that worked so well for them in the 7th century.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 23, 2014 - 09:53pm PT
I'm with this guy:

As I sit here constantly hearing and watching you execute innocent men, women and children in the Middle East I chuckle. Why do I chuckle you may ask? Well let me explain something to you cowardice fools who think you are so tough behind all your propaganda videos. You are scaring a population that doesn’t know how to fight, you’re bullying the weak.

You say Islam is the religion of peace,but since when does terrorizing the innocent and beheading men, women and children constitute peace? WTF? But keep in mind, what did Saddam’s troops do when we came rolling into town? They surrendered, twice… So all your empty threats of coming to America and raising your flag over the White House amuse me more than any of you sick, sadistic bastards could ever imagine or comprehend. In 2012 there was about 21.2 million veterans in the United States.

Do you understand what that means? Let me break it down for you. That means there are literally millions of disgruntled, dysfunctional, pissed off veterans who have been dealing with years of abuse from their government stabbing them in the backs and having to watch their friends die because you Islamic extremist idiots can’t seem to act like normal human beings and stop terrorism and the violence. It’s one thing to take over an Islamic state, but if my memory serves me correctly, I’m pretty sure we plowed through Fallujah in 4 days. Better yet, it took us about month to control your entire country. At this point, with 13+ years of war under our belts, how long do you think it would take us to do it all over again?

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on that one. Do you really think you stand a chance on US soil? Do you really think it would be smart to poke that bear? Remember, never bite the hand that feeds you. Remember we are armed to the teeth in the US and I can promise you this… the Geneva Conventions will not apply to you. You attack us and there will be no mercy. We will bring the righteous hand of God down upon you and crush you. The ball is in your court now ISIS. We are more than ready to arrange your so called “meeting” with your 72 virgins and send you to your “prophet” Mohamed.”

Read more at http://patdollard.com/2014/08/we-are-more-than-ready-to-arrange-your-so-called-meeting-with-your-72-virgins-a-subtle-message-to-isis-from-a-pissed-off-military-vet/#gqvI2QFAcFBVmTVR.99
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 23, 2014 - 10:03pm PT
I can't imagine how such "music videos" could recruit any sane human


I have a couple of re-occurring statements for current behavior.

"People are stupid" is one.

"Islamists are demons", is the other.

Ask me why I think they're demons and I'll tell you, if you're too f*#king stupid to realize it yourself.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 04:00am PT
Yeah all those "other people" are stupid. I mean I can't imagine who would be convinced of something by such a poorly constructed video. Anyway, back over to infowars and patdollard.com!
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 24, 2014 - 04:02am PT
There's a significant battle in Syria now for the Tabqa Airbase, the last remaining Assad base in Eastern Syria.

Meanwhile, the battle has claimed the life of the big mouth referred to above.

http://rt.com/usa/182256-is-spokesman-mosa-killed/

The Islamic State spokesperson who threatened the United States by pledging to “raise the flag of Allah” over the White House has been killed.

According to the US State Department, Islamic State rep Abu Mosa was killed in Syria during an attack at the Tabqa Airbase. This battle apparently involved forces under the Syrian government of Bashar Assad, which is in the midst of a deadly civil war that has raged for three years now.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 24, 2014 - 07:57am PT
Yeah all those "other people" are stupid.

you know damn well the types I'm referring to. And no, I don't put myself on some wisdom pedestal.


I mean I can't imagine who would be convinced of something by such a poorly constructed video.

Stupid people, or Islamic demons.

Anyway, back over to infowars and patdollard.com!

Pat does have the best headlines. But yeah, Alex Jones is a little out there.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 24, 2014 - 08:13am PT
Nile (in the above post) makes a much more eloquent point than I've been making, but we're saying the same thing.

What is really ironic here is that we, the civilized who respect innocent human life and justice, are faced with a conundrum.

We are asking these demons to do the same thing they ask of us. Convert, join our culture, or die.

There's no doubt who is right here. It's just weird how we've been forced into this situation.

Kill them all. (Winston would have said it better, I'm sure. I think he called them Mohammedans, as C.S. Lewis did).

I'm tired of having to mince words with this death-cult. They have time and time-again proven that they aren't worthy of living amongst the civil and tolerant. They spread death and intolerance. It must be rubbed out, with extreme righteousness and moral clarity.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 08:35am PT
ISIS is causing people everywhere to question the value of Abrahamic religion, whatever its form.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 08:53am PT
I could agree there, WB.

.....

Ken M, if you've been following Islam in public affairs seriously and at length as you say then you probably know very well and immediately recognize the names of the panelists in this piece.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2prB3weT4c&app=desktop

I'd encourage you to watch it when you have the time. Maybe you already have?
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 24, 2014 - 09:19am PT
Dumbass Dubya not openly Pandora's Box by illegally invading Iraq, he smashed that f*#ker to pieces. Now's your chance armchair warriors....IS awaits.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 24, 2014 - 03:35pm PT
The USA, Israel and European states are the ones who support and train these aszholes ISIS to fight as a proxy for the corporate and petro dollar interests for the corrupt western countries.

You people are so blind and so far removed by your censored and watered down controlled media.

Thus you've become Stupid Americans, arrogant and and ignorant as hell.


Well, as for those petro-dollars and corporate dalliances, where would you be without them? Think about this before you get all high and almighty, Werner!

Me and you may not need those things but would our society be as 'civilized' without progress and technology, which needs energy?

It's easy for cranky old f*#kers like you to point the finger at US, but we don't saw people's heads off in cold blood. We deliver precision-guided munitions to guilty people and try to spare the innocent.

That is how we differ from the Islamic demons. We value innocence and life.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 24, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
What's the deal with Muslims anyway?

ISIS makes "music videos" of guys disco dancing around while beheading and skinning people alive...and those "music videos" are highly successful recruiting tools?????

When you are indoctrinated in a religion that's very name means submission and taught since childhood that all that don't submit are worthy of nothing but slaughter or slavery it's the next logical step.

Notice the lack of response from "moderate" Muslims.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Aug 24, 2014 - 03:52pm PT
A robotic corspe can walk around without a head but a corpse that's been splattered by a hell fire missle ceases to exist in this material world...
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 04:22pm PT
Satan's only a metaphor at best, don't you agree, Blue?

Here's your chance to be clear on this subject - in the interest of better communication and better understanding.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
It's come to my attn that Mohamad al-Arefe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamad_al-Arefe

has 9.44 million followers on Twitter, twice as many as the Pope, three or four times as many as Neil de Grasse Tyson or Bill Nye.

Please, if you have a twitter acct, check it out.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBqVWg9IQAo

It's time to pay attention.

Defense of one's religion... even if it means smashing skulls, is an honor before God (Allah). This guy says so. So does the Koran. Just read it. (Read it like a reader who has no other alternative.) Read it, put yourself in the shoes of those reading it and taking it literally as the word of God, and much of the confusion resolves itself. Only you know if you've read it, and if you haven't how much is your opinion on their belief and conduct really worth?
dirtbag

climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:32pm PT

Notice the lack of response from "moderate" Muslims.

Except for the moderates in Syria fighting them.

And the Kurds.

Shias, too.


But don't let facts get in the way of your bigoted rants.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:34pm PT
Just to be clear, religious criticism is not bigotry. At least not necessarily. It depends on who's doing the critiquing and under what circumstances.
dirtbag

climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:35pm PT
I know but TGT has crossed the line many times.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
Dirtbag, I know you're a reasoned thinker.

What's so disappointing though is how many take up sides with the Muslims no questions asked and based on little or no research or study - and here I mean, just to be clear, across the board - all of them, the whole shebang, from peaceful fundies to jihadis - proverbial knee-jerk rx like - because of US partisan politics. If the the Repugs, Fox News and such are going to be against them, the muslims, then I gotta be for them. So the thinking goes. That is bs and contributes to the problems. Including some of those we're facing now. The fact is, US is theologically illiterate (half don't know Jehovah aka Yahweh is the God of Moses; another case in pt: half don't know Allah is Arabic for Jehovah/Yahweh) as much as it is scientifically illiterate (sad truths) and it's showing up everywhere, in our internet postings to our conduct abroad.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
What's so disappointing though is how many take up sides with the Muslims

Since they have few Jews remaining, Euros are even more sympathetic to Muslims than here in the US. It's possible, the Islamic State phenomenon, will change that. Or have them questioning it.

But then partisan idealogues rarely question anything.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:53pm PT
HFCS,

You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground.

Using the term Muslim and broad brushing all Muslims is the height of ignorance.

Islamic extremist kill Muslims. They probably kill more Muslims than any other religion.

Get a clue.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:54pm PT
Classic.

(I'm sure to remember the name, Stahlbro, lol!)


That's right, and the afore-posted videos and twitter facts are just fictions. Yeah, right. /sarc

.....

Islamic extremist kill Muslims. They probably kill more Muslims than any other religion.

Couldn't agree more. Thanks for your help in making the argument.

.....

"You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground... Get a clue."

If I had a nickel for every time I heard this baseless retort from a fundamentalist Christian I'd be a rich man, lol!!

Beta for you: Better lay off the Chris Hedges, Slate or The Guardian reads for awhile.
dirtbag

climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
Fructose, as stated above, you go way too far in your criticism. Most Muslims are NOT a problem. Fundamentalists are.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:01pm PT
I'm not saying they are. Read whatever I posted again. The jihadis are the direct problem. Why do I need to repeat this so many times?!

There must be some serious brainwashing going on somewhere in the partisan politics of America.

The analogy with Christians is almost point for point. Why can't half of libs (I'm a lib) get this? My own mother and grandmother were peaceful and loving fundies. (cf: peaceful and loving Muslims) But a few decades earlier, as members of society, citizens of an electorate and their democracy, they would've been obstacles to women's rights, gay rights, and other modern secular progressive pushes. Why is this so hard to grasp? Beats me. But it's splitting libs down the middle when it shouldn't.

Here's a simple qt: What per cent of Muslims across the board have an ethic for science edu or "believe in" evolution? Probably less than 2 per cent. Who thinks this bodes well for the latter half of the 21st century? Never mind, take it as a rhetorical qt. :(
dirtbag

climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:05pm PT
OK, understood. Sorry you had to repeat yourself.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:06pm PT
Now, the Islamic State, has an airbase. The one I referenced upthread.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/24/us-syria-crisis-idUSKBN0GO0C520140824


Islamic State militants stormed an air base in northeast Syria on Sunday, capturing it from government forces after days of fighting that cost more than 500 lives, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 346 Islamic State fighters were killed and more than 170 members of government forces had died since Tuesday in the fight over Tabqa base, making it one of the deadliest confrontations between the two groups since the start of Syria's war.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
Sunni and Shiite militias both seem to suck at fighting real military force, but both excel at slaughtering each others civilians.
Todd Eastman

climber
Bellingham, WA
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:15pm PT
This is about political power, not religion...
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:16pm PT
What % of the Muslim population are extremist?

There are 1.6 billion Muslims. Most are no different than you and me, Chicken Little.

HFCS, you know nothing about me, so don't pretend you do. Your credibility is already suffering.

Extremist in any religion or secular affiliation need to be shut down. It is not rocket science.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 24, 2014 - 06:19pm PT
Yeah, just as Darwin's credibility suffers in the eyes of Ken Ham, thank you.

.....

Well-meaning Americans (incl sad to have to say many libs) who don't distinguish between Islamic moderates (peaceful and loving) and Islamic fundies (peaceful and loving) and Islamic jihadis (incl militant fundies and thugs, political or other) - three distinct demographics - are contributing to the problem.

Here on this thread it seems, Stahlbro is another one.

.....

I'll repeat for reinforcement sake: Criticizing Islam at large (as the Abrahamic supernaturalism it is along with Christianity) or criticizing the Koran (for its barbarisms: death to apostates and infidels, eg) is not attacking (let alone cutting the heads off of) peaceful and loving Islamic fundies (cf: Christian fundies like my own mother and grandmother who wouldn't hurt the proverbial fly) or Islamic moderates.

Until these distinctions are made we'll only continue to argue and not progress on problem solutions.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 24, 2014 - 11:47pm PT
HFCS, You know, I started to watch this, until I realized it was not a panel, as you'd said, and was a TWO HOUR video.

Har Har. You got me. Got me to waste some time. Won't do it again.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 24, 2014 - 11:55pm PT
What's so disappointing though is how many take up sides with the Muslims no questions asked

So here is HFCS revealing himself as the anti- american, pro-ISIS that he is.

He keeps fighting for the right to smear all muslims, everywhere...those who are moderate (he says there are none), those who are our allies (he says there are none), those who just want to lead a peaceful life (he absolutely does not believe there are any).

He does this with unsupported opinions and fabricated videos. while, despite his statement to the contrary, LOTS of people are asking LOTS of questions.

Why does he do this? He wants America to be bloodied, to be taken down a step. He wants to take the anti-American muslims, and increase their number TENFOLD.

Why does he hate America and the west? I dunno. Maybe he's having trouble changing his diaper today.

Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Aug 25, 2014 - 12:22am PT
Just how informed are some of you posters?

Me? I don't know shite. But as much as I dislike Dubya Bush and never voted for Obama, this is beyond their "pale". Doesn't matter who is POTUS, Ward and others, blame who you want for these atrocities, but they are not the making of the US, though we do not really help much, in fact, in these psychopaths' eyes, we are the problem. BS.

This sectarian violence has been going on for centuries. It is just that the "West" gets in the "mix" because of oil.

Read your history. And understand.

EDIT

And hegemony. Through the course of humanity, nation states have wanted to, hmmm… be the bosses, so to speak. Religion, for better or worse, has played a huge, HUGE, role in this.

But in my opinion, religion is just a way to control people. If it was not for religion, there would be another 'method'.

When are we really going to grow up, as a species?

ISIS, the Islamic State, is what? Chuck Hagel states that nothing we have seen before.

Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, the Monroe Doctrine that allowed us Americans to decimate native indigenous people? Where to start, where to begin… and where to end.

ISIS decapitates a human being, and we are outraged. As we should be.

The savagery, the brutality. Truman thought long and hard before his decision.

Stalin murdered millions.

Yes, ISIS must be stopped, they are murderous thugs. Driven by bloodlust. And religion. But again, I iterate, religion is just a "ploy", these sort of people will find any excuse.

How wise was Genghis Khan? For example.

But is it my hope and belief that ISIS and others like them will not kill the human spirit.

Now, I have spent my two cents.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:10am PT
It's true... I could've written that line better knowing it was likely to get chopped and misquoted; I suppose I could've used "extremist muslims" instead; but even there, you know some people out of ignorance or interest are going to intrepret even this as meaning ALL muslims. What a mess.

Otherwise, Ken M, that is some crazy ass posting on your part up top, I don't even know to respond, luckily I've got a busy day so I won't try.

It's too bad you didn't have the time to watch that video as it's pretty informative / insightful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2prB3weT4c


"We have to stop this denial." -Ayaan Hirsi Ali
WBraun

climber
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:50am PT
HFCS is not anti American as he loves his country.

Ken M you're projecting a ton bullsh!t onto people as you always usually do.

You're a nutcase.

Stick to prescribing drugs to your patients from your sponsored drug companies.

You must be taking those drugs too from reading the bizarre garbage coming out of your stupid head ......

Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:24am PT
Stick to prescribing drugs to your patients from your sponsored drug companies.

Jeez, Werner, you are opening up a can of worms there. I am a medical journalist, ex-EMT and ex-med studies drop out. I have seen first hand the power of the Pharmas.

I know this is a million miles away from ISIS, but I have witnessed the power of the pharmas. Why come up with a cure when "just" a treatment will bring in more money.

Okay, I am going to try and round this circle to bring in ISIS… but I can't. Power. Perhaps. The power to cower people, to chop their heads off, or to bomb them silly. Or to make them rely on drugs.

ISIS is a threat, but no more, no less, than the power of corporatism. The Saudis (and Qatar and UAE and others) have it both ways, driving their money power, using their dough to pursue their dreams of domination. (Like the pharmas). Allowing funds to ISIS, to Wahhabism. But is the military-industrial complex any different? Or nowadays shall we term it intelligence-industrial complex?

In some ways, what I write may seem far fetched, but...

You know this Werner, and others know this.

Yes, ISIS must be stopped, and the billionaires meeting in Davos, they do not give a turd about ISIS, they just want more power.

I wish I was a billionaire. Then every Supertopian would have a brand new rack of gear and ropes.

And Ken M is not that bad of a person, he'll get a new rack of gear and a couple of ropes as would HFSC, and you too Werner. When I win the Euromilliions.

ISIS? They will get the shaft.

You probably do not remember but I was on Lunatic Fringe with you and Bird (of course not the FA just an outing), I was fourth and you were rapping off.

Sometimes I think I am still on the Lunatic Fringe.
WBraun

climber
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:27am PT
The so-called Islamic State is not what it claims to be.

Like the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal nor has any reserves, the Islamic State is neither Islamic nor a state.

It is a terrorist group that was created by US intelligence and Zionist-allied mercenaries, trained at CIA bases in Jordan,
and unleashed on the people of Syria and Iraq to destabilize those countries in service to Israel.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:37am PT
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Aug 25, 2014 - 09:03am PT
Here you go Survival


dirtbag

climber
Aug 25, 2014 - 09:46am PT
Fattrad!!!!!!!^^^^^^^^
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 25, 2014 - 11:21am PT
Patrick,

I think you have the right perspective---this is just one in another of an endless narrative of the grasp for power.

So many want to assume insanity or stupidity of the perps, but I think that is not strategic thinking. That leads to underestimation of them and their potential, like we did with UBL.

perhaps you have some perspective on this, professionally: I cannot quite fathom why the world press would give ISIS a column-inch of press, when they turn to killing journalists? Clearly, publicity is an important part of their campaign. Denying them that might be an effective shield for journalists.
maybe not, too, but who knows?
Binks

climber
Uranus
Aug 25, 2014 - 11:35am PT
It's just a gruesome publicity stunt. Yes, I know, terrible, it's a human life. We're killing people all the time over there with drones etc, you never hear about it.

Look up vlad the impaler, these jokers guys can't hold a candle to him.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
As a non-journalist critical of current journalism, I admit that the forthcoming analysis has my bias. Most journalists I've observed think their profession -- and they themselves -- have far more importance than the rest of us think they do. If the murder were of, say, a salesman instead of a journalist, whould the outcry be the same? I rather doubt it.

I've been paying attention to these developments for a lot longer than most because they affect the remaining Armenian communities both in Syria, and potentially in Lebanon, where I still have family. At least now more Americans are aware of the barbarism taking place there.

The 1915 massacres of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were something the west could not stop, but the massaces of the Pontic Greeks and the Armenians following World War I could take place only because the United States, which was given the responsibility by the Allies of administering Turkey to ensure the safety of ethnic minorities, wanted nothing to do with it. The west has the ability to rid us of the [choose one or more] []IS, []ISIS, []ISIL evil. For the sake of humanity, we need to act.

John
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Aug 25, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
DMT...you're the master baiter...sorry..rj
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
Sorry for the cop-out, but my children are adults, so I don't "send them" anywhere any more. If either of them (or my son-in-law) wanted to go as part of the professional armed forces, I would encourage it. We have a professional military for a purpose. We misuse it too often. In my opinion, this would not be a misuse.

John
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 25, 2014 - 02:15pm PT
we need to act.

I agree, but not in the ways you probably mean.

We need mechanisms to quickly strip people of their citizenship and deport. We need a review of what counts as a refugee. The people pouring in from the Islamic world, represent a far more significant threat than some kids on our Southern Border. We may need to deport entire extended families - en toto -. We have to use language, the Islamic World understands. They must start to self-police.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 25, 2014 - 02:21pm PT
The so-called Islamic State is not what it claims to be.

Like the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal nor has any reserves, the Islamic State is neither Islamic nor a state.


There's this. The author, obviously didn't see the VICE video and knows little of the history of the Islamic World. Or the Ottoman Empire, which IS is aspiring to resurrect.

In fact, the Islamic State is growing rapidly. To look at this, as some sort of brief phenomenon, is ignorance of the facts.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Aug 25, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
I love this forum. Some complain that there are not enough climbing threads, and since I am, for a while, not going to do any climbing of significance (I will, honestly, I hope), I throw my pennies around on threads.

I uh... now what was I going to write and comment on?

Oh yeah, now I remember. John, I think that by now the world does recognize the Armenian holocaust, or do they? And by the way, you appear to paint journalists with one stroke (I hope you do not), so by that token, all lawyers like you are ambulance chasers. (Remember, both of my grandpas were well-respected judges. However, I just don't get the law.)

DMT, Rupert Murdoch? I sold my soul and prostituted myself for two nights working on The Sun in Wapping. I had to pay the rent.

ISIS? I have tried to learn Egyptian mythology.

Again, Davos and billionaires, I wish I was one.

Where am I going with this post?

I don't know.

EDIT

John, I am even more critical of current journalism than you are. I have worked as one for too long. Time to change the game.

So having lived and worked in Napa county (and my late brother Mac one of the best winemakers ever), an earthquake? That is earth-shattering news.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Aug 25, 2014 - 02:54pm PT
ISIS will be defeated. So much hatred and so much animosity, so much ideology, in a modern world, it does not cut it. But there will be pain, suffering and blood. Boko Haram in Nigeria just, more or less, allied themselves with ISIS.

But in my opinion, it is not the start of a "new age". These groups may in the short term, like in the Ukraine (total different ball game but still...), gain support, but in a modern world one would hope that human intelligence will eventually reason and win out.

Signed, the eternal optimist, Patrick
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 03:03pm PT
Thanks, Patrick, for your replies. Yes, I remain highly critical of the current state of what passes for journalism, but you're right -- I did not intend to paint all journalists with so broad a brush.

I think every profession probably views itself as more important than does society as a whole. I know lawyers do, at least. For that reason, I remain skeptical of lawyers' solutions to problems, because about all they are certian to do is increase the demand for lawyers. They may, sometimes, actually help solve a problem, but only if we're lucky.

I refer to the massacres in Turkey mainly because they resemble what's happening now. We have weak central governments and widespread turmoil with irrational hatred abounding. I hope we don't repeat the same mistakes now.

John
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 03:55pm PT
ISIS will be defeated

I aver they will be defeated by their nihilism although it will likely take
some time as I do not see a stampede by the usual suspects to form an alliance
to do so. I don't see how we can do more than we did to the Taliban and
that has hardly proved a rousing success. The Turks aren't going to help to
any meaningful degree so that leaves us to plink away by air at targets of
opportunity that stray from the protective envelope of civilian proximity.
Survival's Buffs won't get that tasking.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 25, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
but in a modern world one would hope that human intelligence will eventually reason and win out.


They hoped that in 1931 too.

There is no reasoning with evil.

Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Aug 25, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
John and Reilly.

Yeah. Yep. Will history and humankind repeat themselves?

One would hope not, but…

John, the massacre of Armenians in 1915 (give or take a couple of years, it was ongoing) just shows that we humans are not that intelligent in some ways.

What can we do? Go climbing?

That's nice perhaps even is some way reassuring, but it will not solve a problem that over the millennia us humans can not or will not tackle.

I have NO answers. Except to try and treat people of all ilks like, people. But that does not seem to work. Going over eight billion people, how to achieve a consensus. As much as I am an eternal optimist, I just don't see it.

That said, we are not a stupid species. But eight billion and counting, wow, what a road to tackle.

We can though, in our own small ways, hopefully as a collective, I don't know, perhaps make a difference. Call me naive. But I have to hope for the best. There will be pain and sorrow. I probably will not see humanity rise to its best in my lifetime.

But we have to pass on the belief to our next generations.

We can do it. Not ISIS, not the US, not Russia, not…

Now, I have my kayak ready to take out on the Celtic Sea this morning, I have a good partner in Jennie, and if it stops raining perhaps a visit to Rocklands, a funky crag, but all there is locally.

And ISIS can go to hell. They will not grow much larger, despite the disillusioned youth/people in many countries thinking that… thinking that…

Intelligence will prevail over these headcases. It has to.

I have to believe that.


EDIT

Just watched The Great Escape, Jennie has not seen it before. Some great actors. Of course one of my favorites, James Garner and Richard Attenborough RIP yesterday, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance, and others

I have met six Taoiseachs (Irish for prime minister), interviewed some of them. Most of them gobshites.

Albert Reynolds just passed away. He was a businessman who came into politics late. But in his short term as Taoiseach, he achieved a lot. He helped to pave the way for peace in Northern Ireland. May he rest in peace.

EDIT

I suppose I bring this up as a sectarian issue. Protestants versus Catholics, like in the North (and remember, to aspire to the British throne, one can be a Jew, Muslim, whatever but not a Catholic. Weird.). So Shiite versus Sunni, don't believe in ISIS, off with your head.

Someday it will be a war between trad climbers and sport climbers. I won't be around.

I am glad I am an atheist.
crankster

Trad climber
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:05pm PT
You must be taking those drugs too from reading the bizarre garbage coming out of your stupid head ......

Ignore the ST bully, Ken.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:07pm PT
Fear the professional army, citizen, for it will be the vehicle that runs over democracy, in the end.

DMT


There are many things I fear more than professional, America-loving soldiers. In fact, they are probably our last hope at defending our homeland from enemies domestic and abroad.

And I don't really 'fear' a lot. I just worry about the state of our gov't and it's impacts on this population.

And we already have 'boots on the ground' in Norther Iraq. The Air Force has spec ops teams specifically designed to be inserted covertly and set up mobile Air Traffic Control/Target Acquisition platforms.

This is in addition to Green Berets training Kurds and probably SEALs doing Search/Destroy missions.

There are plenty of good-guys on the ground. Plotting. Taking notes. This little mission prolly won't need Marines and the Army (except at the embassies, unlike Benghazi).

We may be able to pull this deal off with spec ops and air superiority. We'll see.

Yeah, I said 'we', Dingus....
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:14pm PT
We may be able to pull this deal off with spec ops and air superiority. We'll see.

Bluie, that hasn't worked in Afghanistan despite having tens of thousands of boots on the ground. Why would it work better in Syria/N. Iraq?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:37pm PT
Bluie, that hasn't worked in Afghanistan despite having tens of thousands of boots on the ground. Why would it work better in Syria/N. Iraq?


Nah. I think is doable in my scenario. We have Kurds who hate IS (like Northern Alliance), Assad in Syria who is fighting them as well, in addition to a growing Iraqi comeback. They just needs air reinforcements and our satellite data and targeting.

All conflicts and wars have been fought for resource strategy. Getting shot dead because the other guy deserves a fair chance is what happens to soldiers who have never gone through a divorce at the request of their one and only...


See above what I said to Reilly. These guys don't give a f*#k about resources, just a religious caliphate, but they will use resources to fund their murderous goals....

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:10pm PT
These guys don't give a f*#k about resources,

Oh, but I am quite sure you are wrong there. I have long viewed these groups as virtually
indistinguishable from LA street gangs and we well know to what ends those guys will go to
avoid getting a day job. Wrapping yourself in a holier-than-thou cloak doesn't pay the bills,
especially if you're going to take over the world. Why else do you think they have been so
intent on taking the Kurds' oil fields and the dam we just drove them away from?
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:56pm PT
Syria warns US: No unilateral strikes on militants
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, giving the first public comments by a senior Assad official on the threat posed by the Islamic State group, in Damascus, Syria on Monday, August 25, 2014. Al-Moallem warned the U.S. not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression. Al-Moallem also said that Syria is ready to work with regional states and the international community amid the onslaught of Islamic militants there and in Iraq, adding that the Syrian government is a crucial partner in the war on terror. (AP Photo - SANA)
By RYAN LUCAS
From Associated Press
August 25, 2014 9:20 PM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria said Monday it was ready to help confront the rising threat from the Islamic State group, but warned the United States against carrying out airstrikes without Damascus' consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression.

In seeking to portray itself as a partner for the international community, Syria seemed intent on capitalizing on the growing clamor among some U.S. officials, including military leaders, to expand the current American air campaign against the Islamic extremists in Iraq and to hit them in Syria as well.

President Barack Obama has long been wary of getting dragged into the bloody and complex Syrian civil war that the United Nations says has killed more than 190,000 people. He has resisted intervening militarily in the conflict, even after a deadly chemical weapons attack a year ago that Washington blamed on President Bashar Assad's government.

But the extremist group's rampage across wide swaths of Iraq, declaration of a state governed by their harsh interpretation of Islamic law in territory spanning the Iraq-Syria border, and grisly beheading of an American journalist, have injected a new dynamic into those calculations. Now, Obama faces pressure from his own military leaders to go after the extremists inside Syria.

On Monday, a senior administration official said Obama authorized surveillance flights over Syria, a move that could pave the way for U.S. airstrikes. The official who confirmed the decision was not authorized to discuss Obama's decision publicly by name, and insisted on anonymity.

Speaking in Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem appeared acutely aware of how much has changed since last August, when the U.S. was threatening to carry out punitive airstrikes against Assad's government in the wake of the chemical attack. Since then, global disapproval has shifted away from Assad and toward the Islamic extremists who are fighting him and spreading destruction across Syria and Iraq.

Al-Moallem told reporters his government is ready "to cooperate and coordinate" with any side, including the U.S., or join any regional or international alliance against the Islamic State group. But he said any military action inside Syria should be coordinated with the Syrian government.

"Any strike which is not coordinated with the government will be considered as aggression," he said.

He said Damascus has warned repeatedly of the threat of terrorism and the need to cut off resources and funding, but "no one listened to us." Syria's government has long described the rebels fighting to topple Assad as "terrorists" in a foreign conspiracy.

In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said Western nations that long refused to condemn Assad's enemies were now coming to realize the threat posed by the Islamic State group.

The West, he said, will "have to choose what is more important: to change the regime and satisfy personal antipathies with the risk that the situation will crumble, or find pragmatic ways to join efforts against the common threat, which is the same for all of us — terrorism."

Moscow has been a close ally of Damascus for decades, and has provided it with weapons and funding to help support Assad throughout the current conflict.

Mustafa Alani, the director of the security and defense department at the Gulf Research Center in Geneva, said Syria's offer aims to take advantage of current events in Iraq, and the corresponding shift in American and European attitudes about Assad and the Islamic State extremists.

"The Syrian government is trying to say they are on the same side as the international community. The old claim from Day 1 that the Syrians have tried to make is that they are fighting pure terrorism. There's no revolution, no rebels, no opposition," Alani said.

"I don't see this sort of call being acceptable, especially on the regional level," he added. "The Americans might find themselves forced to cooperate under the table with the Syrians. But I don't think Arab countries will accept Syria as a member of the club fighting the Islamic State."

The Abbas regime's warnings about the Islamic State group ring hollow to many in the opposition, who have watched Damascus turn a blind eye to the militants' expansion in Syria for more than a year. Many even accuse the government of facilitating the group's rise at the expense of more mainstream rebel factions.

The breakaway al-Qaida group is the most powerful faction fighting Assad's forces, which means a U.S. campaign to weaken the Islamic State extremists could actually strengthen a leader the White House has sought to push from office. Obama could try to counteract that awkward dynamic by also targeting Assad's forces, though that could drag the U.S. into the bloody, complex conflict — something he has studiously tried to avoid.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that Obama has not made a decision on whether to take military action inside Syria, but noted that the president has demonstrated his willingness to take military action to protect American citizens.

"That is true without regard to international borders," he said.

Earnest tried to tamp down the notion that strikes against the Islamic State could have the unintended consequence of bolstering the Syrian government, saying: "We're not interested in trying to help the Assad regime." However, he noted that there are "a lot of cross-pressures here in this situation."

Despite al-Moallem's warning against unilateral U.S. airstrikes, there is little the Assad government could do should the U.S. decide to target the Muslim extremists inside Syria.

U.S. officials revealed last week that American special forces had tried to rescue American journalist James Foley in a failed operation in Raqqa in July. Islamic State militants beheaded Foley last week.

Referring to that failed mission, al-Moallem said: "Had there been prior coordination that operation would not have failed."

Still, the minister denounced "in the strongest terms possible" Foley's killing, while also asking: "Has the West ever condemned the massacres by the Islamic State ... against our armed forces or citizens?"

Al-Moallem's news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in northeastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group. After several failed attempts, Islamic State fighters stormed the Tabqa air base Sunday, killing dozens of troops inside.

Al-Moallem conceded defeat in Tabqa, saying that soldiers were withdrawn to nearby areas, along with their weaponry and warplanes. Videos posted on militant websites Monday showed celebrations in the nearby town of Tabqa, controlled by the Islamic State group, including fighters honking noisily as they drove in cars carrying the group's black-and-white flags.

___

Associated Press writers Zeina Karam in Beirut and Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report.


http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20140825/fbc9eb89-ae37-4870-8017-40d5da384e91
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 25, 2014 - 09:21pm PT
Survival's Buffs won't get that tasking.

Obviously not.

But it soothes my frustration at the evil bastards just to post the picture.






Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
Yes, but the new cost-conscious Pentagon will be loathe to loose a Tomahawk
on a couple of Toyota pickups with a NSV in the back.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 25, 2014 - 09:56pm PT
T-72's? SWEET! A much better target, como no?
A Tomahawk is still overkill, but if they wanna convoy it then fine! ;-)
Degaine

climber
Aug 26, 2014 - 12:36am PT
bluering wrote:
Yeah, I said 'we', Dingus....


So when are you planning to enlist? Or force your kids (if you have any) to enlist?

I see no "you" in that "we" at all.
neversummer

climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
Aug 26, 2014 - 07:41am PT
Or those who half assed served....Hmmmmm
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:21am PT
We should be staying the f*#k out. All those people there, deserve each other.

That said, what happened to napalm? Those were kinda like the old time mumbly pegs, pointed on each end. Bounce along and lay a nice strip of fire. Perfect for an ISIS convoy.

There's some nervous Muslims now. In case the beheading crowd rolls up in front of their palace. The King of Saud. The Iranians. Let them stew for a while.

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:22am PT
DMT, isn't any citizen allowed to express their opinion?
Thank God we're not at the mercy of only those who served -
I value women's opinions.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:57am PT
Hey it's good to hear from physicists too (cf: physicians, lol!) that are concerned enough and knowledgeable (probably from the decades of conflict with rel over claims to truth about how the world works) to speak out against the craziness caused by religions and their scriptures when taken literally by whomever - whether thugs or not.

"ISIS is a barbaric reminder: no such thing as a religion of peace, certainly not Islam today nor Judaism or Christianity throughout history."

Lawrence Krauss, physicist
26 August tweet
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 26, 2014 - 05:41pm PT
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 26, 2014 - 05:54pm PT
Thank God we're not at the mercy of only those who served


I guess. Still, someone who served in the Army, sure wouldn't have left 52 155mm Howitzers lying around. What was the Iraqi Army supposed to do with them? Civilians would never get this.

The IS style, they come into your town, blow up any authority HQ, with a suicide bomb, then overrun the place. Executions follow quickly.

Looks like they don't trust the Western raised jihadists. A whole bunch of them died this w/e. Guessing, too many tweets with photos that give away too much info. So they put them on the tip of the spear

[Click to View YouTube Video]
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 26, 2014 - 06:32pm PT
Killing is the easiest solution to most problems. Men kill over honor. Women kill themselves out of desperation. Children grow up torturing animals.

Clerics settle religious questions with murder. It's just easier that way.

Theological debates are complicated and impossible to settle, but fly the black flags, seize a village, kill the men and force the women to convert to the true faith of the machine gun and the sword and the debate is over.

ISIS is how Islam has been settling questions of theology since the 7th century. Why stop now just because you can order takeout from your smartphone? Westerners are innately fascinated by new technology. For the Middle East, technology is a tool for settling medieval disputes. Twitter is just a way of showing off your latest crop of severed heads. The pickup truck substitutes for a camel.
........

It's best to understand that we are not dealing with a moral code that looks anything like our own. The nastier qualities of human nature, deceit, violence and greed, are practically virtues. Especially if they are directed at the right targets.

There's a reason that Islam was born here. There's a reason that it still thrives here largely in its unaltered form. There is no civilization where the black flags fly.


http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/where-black-flags-fly.html



"ISIS is a barbaric reminder: no such thing as a religion of peace, certainly not Islam today nor Judaism or Christianity throughout history."

This is a statement born of theological and historical illiteracy.

there have always been barbaric peoples who cloaked their evil in religion, but only Islam has a unique set of rules and justifications in it's foundational writing for this kind of barbarity coupled with a thousand year tradition of slaughter and slavery.



StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
Ever hear of the Inquisition? Made These guys look like amateurs.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 26, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
A good example of someone embracing ISIS if not Islam more for sociopolitical discontent than religion or theology: Douglas McArthur McCain.


"It takes a warrior to understand a warrior... pray for ISIS."
Douglas McArthur McCain
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
Reilly, as for the whole resources argument, that came after their radicalization.

They realized later they needed more cash/resources to continue their caliphate dreams. And they had easy targets in Iraq. And Libya.

Their initial intent was not resources for a great Islamic state, but rather their dream of a radical state they soon realized needed more cash. Thus, they robbed millions in gold from that Iraqi bank.

The radicalism came before the resourcing. But yeah, they are so big now that they DO require cash, and they're getting it.

Back to armchair General, if I were running the show there would not only be f-18's and Hellfire-equipped drones on call, but I would DEMAND that with the help of Global Hawk drones and Satellites, there would HAVE TO BE AC-130 Gunships rotating constantly through Northern Iraq. Constantly.

The AC-130 is perfect for this mission. Also, they just developed the AC-130W which can do all that Spectre and Spooky did, but can also deliver sat-guided missiles. We develop these 'resources' for a reason. Let's test drive them, huh?

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:09pm PT
Ever hear of the Inquisition? Made These guys look like amateurs.

Actual number of executions during the Spanish inquisition from historical sources totals to less than 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

Like all totalitarian regimes they were big on record keeping.


On the other hand Islam has slaughtered about 270 million non believers over it's 1400 year history, 60 million European and middle eastern Christians and Jews, 80 million Hindus,(nobody in the west seems to remember what the Moguls did to India!) and a 120 million African Christians and animists.


Do you want to get into the Muslim connection to slavery as well?

What we are seeing is not an anomaly!

It has been the nature of the political system, (it's really as much that as a theology) since it's founding by a warlord.






bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:16pm PT
Do you want to get into the Muslim connection to slavery as well?

Yeah, the IslamoNuts did the enslaving, and at the time we were looking for cheap labor. You're factually correct on that.

Sound familiar to a similar dilemma we are faced with today?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:22pm PT
Dingus misses the point and the historical lesson of 'cheap labor'.

It comes with others costs. Nothing is free, or cheap. Not without other consequences or price disparity.

Also at a time when asshat Dems are calling for Minimum Wage increases!!!!
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:34pm PT
Bluering is evil. He glories in the idea of killing. He glories in the idea of people making poverty wages. It seems like he sold his soul for the love of money and power. Disgusting soul.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 26, 2014 - 08:46pm PT
Bluering is evil. He glories in the idea of killing. He glories in the idea of people making poverty wages. It seems like he sold his soul for the love of money and power. Disgusting soul.


Keep telling yourself that if that's your prerogative. Aren't you of the mindset for protecting minorities and their wage disparities?

Does illegal immigration help or hinder those minorities here legally, whether black, asian, or hispanic?

Do you hate legal minorities?
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 27, 2014 - 12:41am PT
It seems like you frequently use the "will you send your children" approach when foreign entanglements are discussed. Why? Under what circumstances do you think we should use troops overseas?

My take is I don't need to offer up my children because my taxes help maintain our military, which has mostly fought overseas for the last century. Based on our history, it's likely that military action will not be on US soil. So, what's your beef with considering fighting overseas?

Don't ask others to do what you would not. Do not sacrifice American teenagers, so that you can keep your own teenagers close.

somewhere in there is the basis of what patriotism is about. It is not an accident that many US general officer's children join the military. As did Truman's in a time of war, Eisenhower's in a time of war, Powell's in a time of war.
ontheedgeandscaredtodeath

Social climber
SLO, Ca
Aug 27, 2014 - 07:38am PT
Bluey and TGT should get their crusade on. Stop bitching on the intardnet, drive to the airport and do themselves what they say needs to be done.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 27, 2014 - 07:41am PT
Regarding Iraq, why not The United States of Iraq (U.S.I) for those who remain interested in a unification of the three regions - esp now in order to fight back against this thug group ISIS? USI has a nice ring.

As a federation. A federation of states. Of course they would need a basic organizing principle or two or three. Democratic rule and freedom of speech could be a couple. I don't think separation of mosque and state would be a popular one.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 27, 2014 - 09:01am PT
Two of the leading voices in the Muslim world denounced the persecution of Christians in Iraq, at the hands of extremists proclaiming a caliphate under the name Islamic State.

The most explicit condemnation came from Iyad Ameen Madani, the Secretary General for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the group representing 57 countries, and 1.4 billion Muslims.

In a statement, he officially denounced the “forced deportation under the threat of execution” of Christians, calling it a “crime that cannot be tolerated.” The Secretary General also distanced Islam from the actions of the militant group known as ISIS, saying they “have nothing to do with Islam and its principles that call for justice, kindness, fairness, freedom of faith and coexistence.”

Meanwhile, Turkey’s top cleric, the spiritual successor to the caliphate under the Ottoman Empire, also touched on the topic during a peace conference of Islamic scholars.

In a not-so-veiled swipe at ISIS, Mehmet Gormez declared that “an entity that lacks legal justification has no authority to declare war against a political gathering, any country or community.” He went on to say that Muslims should not be hostile towards “people with different views, values and beliefs, and regard them as enemies.”

Gormez said death threats against non-Muslims made by the group, formerly known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), were hugely damaging. “The statement made against Christians is truly awful. Islamic scholars need to focus on this (because) an inability to peacefully sustain other faiths and cultures heralds the collapse of a civilization,” he told Reuters in an interview.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 27, 2014 - 09:18am PT
meh, too little, too late ^^^^

They're getting skeered, lol. Could be them under the knife. I hope Obama lets them twist in the wind for a few years, like we did in Iraq. So the message is pounded home for a generation.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 27, 2014 - 09:22am PT
What comprises the bulk of IS? Disaffected iraqi sunni and syrian war orphans? Remnants of Saddam's army that were disbanded?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 27, 2014 - 06:39pm PT
Don't ask others to do what you would not. Do not sacrifice American teenagers, so that you can keep your own teenagers close.

This is utterly stupid. So if I want a cop to protect me, instead of calling 911, I should just take justice into my own hands. I have to become a cop to advocate that cops defend their citizens?

What about paramedics and the fire department.

This is a stupid straw-man argument because you guys have nothing else. You don't want to see ISIS obliterated by massive American firepower?

I'll flip this on you. What if your stupid pacifist policies of not executing these thugs and leaving a wide-open southern border under-defended leads to the loss of life in YOUR family.

Would that change your mind? I guarantee you that these rat-f*#ks are going to exploit our border and they want to kill us.

Our current course actually allows it to happen.

EDIT ;
What comprises the bulk of IS? Disaffected iraqi sunni and syrian war orphans? Remnants of Saddam's army that were disbanded?


That's naive. Now there are people flocking there from all over. And from Western countries.
dirtbag

climber
Aug 27, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
Tioga, rather than endlessly bitch about "western brats" why don't you quit yer bitching, and go back to whatever Sheetholistan you came from?
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Aug 27, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
...Washington’s announcement that the US government has no plans to coordinate US attacks on ISIS on Syrian territory with the Syrian government. Washington recognizes no limitations on its use of force, and the sovereignty of countries provides no inhibition.

In Washington coercion has supplanted the rule of law.

Syria has every right to be nervous. The reason ISIS is operating on Syrian territory is that Washington armed them and sent them to Syria. Washington’s air strikes on ISIS could very well be cover for air strikes on Syrian armed forces.

Here we see the complete failure of the Obama regime. As in Libya, the Obama regime set jihadists lose on Syria, pretending that they were fighting for democracy against a dictator. But Washington lost control over its monster which has gobbled up large parts of Syria and Iraq and is forming them into a new country hostile both to the West and to the Muslim vassals of the West.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/27/leninist-white-house-paul-craig-roberts/
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 27, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
Steve now holds the rank of Field Marshal within the suburban confines of Santa Clara.

I'd prefer an advisory role. A governed class select how the governors proceed. It's a Founding Fathers thing, those stupid fools...

Hey Steve, is what the military does the same as what you feel as a commercial consumer ? Is it the same as complaining that the waiter was slow in delivering your drink when someone who actually knows what's going on doesn't start hacking up those who displease you ?

Not sure I get this. What do you mean? The point?

"Volunteering" is a poor excuse for what used to involve everyone and their children. It was called the draft, and your little boy was once an object of the meatgrinder whether or not you had an opinion as a parent.

So go f*#k yourself unless it's cool with you that a bunch of senators and congresspeople you've never met, think it's A-OK to take your 18 year old child and have other people you've never met shoot bullets at him.

I can't speak for him but I think this is what Dingus is talking about.

Living in the past, uh? Or should i say, "stuck in the past".

There is no draft, so what is the f*#king relevance. Everybody is volunteer now, and they know damn well the relevance of signing up. We are in a global conflict, and have been for over 15 years.

Your arguments are weak at best.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 27, 2014 - 08:51pm PT
The fact is that it's the same people from the same places that go and do your dirty work for you.

There might be some folks here old enough to remember where this began...

"Put a nigger behind the trigger and send him off to 'Nam"
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 28, 2014 - 12:00am PT
Truman's daughter fought in Korea?

Oops! That was my error. It was actually Truman himself who had to repeatedly try to join the army, as he was medically exempt.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 28, 2014 - 03:44am PT
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 28, 2014 - 06:52am PT
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/world/middleeast/army-know-how-seen-as-factor-in-isis-successes.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0

Looks to me like there are a lot of ex-Baathist members wreaking havoc in Iraq, Westerners and foreigners aside. Naive? Don't think so.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 28, 2014 - 07:29am PT
Aug 27, 2014, Hannity vs Anjem Choudary...

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki8EipzCHb4

For every Douglas McArthur McCain (sociopolitical discontent who buys an "Islam for Dummies" enflight to the ME) there is an Anjem Choudary (devout servant of God).

And a fundamentalist Christian, like Ken Ham. (The Lie: Evolution)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjem_Choudary


Abrahamic religion poisons everything. (C Hitchens)
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 28, 2014 - 07:29am PT
when in fear
when in doubt
run in circles
scream and shout
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 28, 2014 - 07:53am PT
Possibly one of the 3-5 times I've agreed with Hannity, but he's such a flaming dick as an interviewer. That was not an interview.

And ShariaFool should have known better. Two baboons yelling at each other, weeeeeeeee!!!
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 28, 2014 - 08:05am PT
I know, I started feeling bad just after I posted. For not giving a warning re this flaming dick and of course the other guy, too.

Two baboons yelling at each other, weeeeeeeee!!!

I'm afraid it won't be the last time we see it. And worse.

This Choudary of Britain has four kids, I wonder their belief system?
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 28, 2014 - 08:14am PT
This Choudary of Britain has four kids, I wonder their belief system?


If he's a good and gentle father, as most Muslims I've met, then sadly, they will grow up believing him.

Global caliphate/sharia? Yeah, good luck with that one buckethead.....
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 28, 2014 - 10:30am PT
You don't want to see ISIS obliterated by massive American firepower?

I don't think it is a small issue to understand that ISIS CANNOT be obliterated by American firepower.

This lesson seems to have to be learned over and over again. Colin Powell laid it out clearly in "The Commanders" by Bob Woodward (outstanding book, BTW).

You can hit some tanks and vehicles, but that is not what makes up ISIS or any other unconventional army.

You would have thought that Viet Nam would have taught us, where we had total air superiority, and huge technological advantages.....and lost.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 28, 2014 - 10:34am PT
Armchair warriors have short memories, or none at all. It just excites them, thinking about all that sh#t that goes BOOM!
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Aug 28, 2014 - 10:58am PT
You can hit some tanks and vehicles, but that is not what makes up ISIS or any other unconventional army.

I don't think ISIS (or whatever its nom du jour may be) behaves like an unconventional army, other than its lack of uniforms. It behaves like a conquerging nation from antiquity, for the following reasons:

1. It levies taxes (called by its critics extorition);

2. It exercises control over definable geographic areas;

3. It engages in ethnic and religious extermination of all but its own;

4. It uses the resources of the entire area it conquers as a source of revenue; and

5. It purports to (and apparently does) have a formal governmental apparatus.

Point 3, in particular, separates ISIS from, say, the Seljuk or Ottoman Turks, the Romans, the Persians under Cyrus or Alexander's Macedonians. It reminds me more of, say, the Assyrians under Sargon or Sennecharib, or the Mongols who annhialated the conquered people and killed or forced into exile those who would not assimilate.

Sitting on our hands on this one strikes me as an exceptionally poor decision.

John
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 28, 2014 - 02:30pm PT
The world needs more maajid's...

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/08/28/ac-maajid-nawaz.cnn.html

.....

Side note...

This is scary, too: Russia's conduct of late.

A geography lesson for Putin...

Binks

climber
Uranus
Aug 28, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
ISIS is just another neocon plot with a catchy name. I'm already bored of the story line.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 28, 2014 - 05:55pm PT
So if Obama decides to unleash the Hounds of Hell upon the heads of the Sand Gangstas,
and I'm still somewhat dubious that he will do so unequivocally, one question
would seem to be how comfortable Turkey and Saudi Arabia will be to allow us
to use our air bases there. It will be interesting to see how much we'll have
to sweeten the deal. I'm sure the rug merchants will drive a hard and highly
lucrative bargain and, as usual, they'll take great pleasure in denying us
the use of any lubricant.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 28, 2014 - 07:17pm PT
You're afraid. How cute. So of course you get the children of others to drop bombs on people on the other side of the world, to assuage that fear. That is exactly what led to the destruction of Iraq and the rise of ISIS you goddamn fool!

Ah, the equivocation and the '"we caused this" meme. This is f*#king tired. How far do we have to go back to see who is right or who is wrong? How many years? The first crusade, or the start of the islamic caliphate?

You're a hypocrite when you say;
No its spot on. I noticed decades ago there were millions of freeloaders in this country who talk a lot of sh#t about war but never ever put skin in the game. You're one of those people.

But just before that you say it's different for me to support police to control local law enforcement. That it's ok to support local jurisdiction but supporting foreign ops is war mongering?

When these bastards from Minnesota and Dearborn, Mich. come home and something happens, we'll revisit this argument.

If everybody who supported the military and military action enlisted, what would our economy look like? You make a fabulously ridiculous argument.

Also, DMT, do you support decimating ISIS? How would you do it? What would you advocate?
crankster

Trad climber
Aug 28, 2014 - 08:29pm PT

Aug 28, 2014 - 04:57pm PT
CNN is full of sh!t.

Lying aszholes that are the huge problem with their fuked up propaganda against everyone on the planet to make USA look like they're not doing anything wrong.

USA its allies and the EU are the big aggressors against Russia to keep their petro dollar alive.

CNN and the major US media is lying like hell .....

Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 28, 2014 - 11:05pm PT
Point 3, in particular, separates ISIS from, say, the Seljuk or Ottoman Turks, the Romans, the Persians under Cyrus or Alexander's Macedonians. It reminds me more of, say, the Assyrians under Sargon or Sennecharib, or the Mongols who annhialated the conquered people and killed or forced into exile those who would not assimilate.

Sitting on our hands on this one strikes me as an exceptionally poor decision.

John, I don't know what the papers you read are saying, but we are not sitting on our hands.

However, if you are in favor of sending our Army and Marines into the situation, I greatly disagree. I don't disagree with airpower, as we are doing now.

The problem with your comparisons is: How do you tell apart people in civilian clothes and vehicles, at 10,000 feet?

But I think negotiating with other powers in the region to put THEIR boots on the ground, is very reasonable, and necessary.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Aug 28, 2014 - 11:13pm PT
Conspiracy theory time: 'THEY' are doing a swell job of
keeping the IRS scandal out of the news cycle. Wars, jet crashes,
terrorists, child boarder invasions, black suicide by cop, etc.

Definitely got the 'A' team working full time. :P
Degaine

climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 09:10am PT
JEleazarian wrote:
Sitting on our hands on this one strikes me as an exceptionally poor decision.

With all due respect, but given the quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq, you'll have to forgive me if I completely dismiss and disregard the opinion and advice of a declared Republican on this particular issue.

Cheers and all the best.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 29, 2014 - 10:03am PT
Yup.

The Republicans have been and continue to be so wrong. Their endless wars, are a deficit loving policy.

The Mitch McConnell sellout of the shutdown, for 2 billion, shows they have zero moral compass.

The Islamic World has to decide where their future lies. In fact, we're fortunate, this war is finally being fought on their soil by them. Time to let it stew. I hope the IS, heads towards Mecca. Then we shall see.
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 11:08am PT
John Kerry, said Isis “must be destroyed”

Secretary of State Kerry ^^^

“It is possible to contain them,” Dempsey said,

Dempsey, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this about ISIS a few days after Kerry's comment

“Isil is as sophisticated and well funded as any group that we have seen. They’re beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess, they are tremendously well funded. Oh, this is beyond anything that we’ve seen, so we must prepare for everything,” Hagel said.


Defense Secretary Hagel said this recently about ISIS . ^^^

"As it relates to the United States' national terror alert system, I don’t anticipate at this point that there’s a plan to change that level," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

White House Press boy said the above after British PM Cameron raised the UK terror alert through the roof.

"We don't have a strategy yet."


Obama said the above yesterday just a few days after ending 2 weeks of playing golf.


This grotesque level of incompetence is breathtaking.
This failure of leadership is a national and international embarrassment of the highest order, as well as representing a very great danger to the US and other countries.










TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 29, 2014 - 11:39am PT
The party line still is that Ft Hood was
just workplace violence


In the undated letter, Hasan -- who fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009 in what the Defense Department called “workplace violence”-- tells ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that he wants to join the caliphate.

"I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State,”Hasan says in the handwritten document addressed to “Ameer, Mujahid Dr. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/29/fort-hood-shooter-says-want-to-become-citizen-islamic-state-caliphate/
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 11:41am PT
So what would president Trotter do?

If I had this mess dumped in my lap right now I would send in ground troops. Unfortunately , considering the nature and growing threat of ISIS, there is really no other option at this point.

I can tell you what voter Trotter did: he voted twice against Obama --- who he considers a radical leftist ideologue with a narcissistic personality disorder.


dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Aug 29, 2014 - 11:47am PT
Dingus -uh-huh. 'boarder' may convey the truth in this case.

boarder:a person who lives and has daily meals at another person's house or at a school. True, these kids are not paying their hosts. The government is.
Boarders.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 29, 2014 - 11:47am PT
ideologue with a narcissistic personality disorder.
You just described all politicians didn't you?





he voted twice against Obama


Yeah, Nursing home McCain, Palin the genius, Romney the hairdoo, and Ryan the pube would've done so well with all this.


Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:20pm PT
You just described all politicians didn't you?

Every individual has a certain level of narcissism required for a reasonably healthy psyche.
It's true that many politicians , CEOs ,etc , are highly narcissistic ----more so than ordinary people.
Then again there is the malignant narcissist --- who must get a very high "narcissistic supply" to maintain his bloated false self ---or he runs the risk of unravelling. Recently Obama's supply has been very scarce and of low grade quality--- especially considering what he's been accustomed to.

If you support Obama then you need to send some loving adoration and a messianic glow his way. Like you once did--- when he was flanked by Grecian columns and his voice boomed forth in a reverb. Remember.
Of late the guy really looks and sounds miserable. If this keeps up then he perhaps runs the potential risk of experiencing psychotic " mini-episodes" . Not good for a sitting POTUS, not good for the rest of us ---and much more serious than his usual incompetence and lack of engagement.
( this "lack of engagement" is itself one of many reactive strategies of the serious narcissist)
Binks

climber
Uranus
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:27pm PT
I love all the pictures of multi million dollar missles being used to kill guys with Walmart level weaponry.

F*#KING LIES, ALL OF IT. LIES AND PROPAGANDA so the machine can continue making money unabated.
blahblah

Gym climber
Boulder
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:33pm PT
^ ^ ^
That's a reasonable assessment of Obama above, but my guess is that the situation isn't quite that complicated. He's at least a relatively smart guy. He knows his presidency "is what it is" at this point, generally pretty bad, maybe not terrible. I'd say he gets a good solid "C," but I could see a lower rating depending on what you think is important. (I do find his general contempt for the law to be somewhat troubling, but I guess that's what they teach at Harvard. (Law is a social construct intended to preserve dominant paradigms yaddayadda))
Anyway, he's generally disengaging, enjoying his golf more than ever, just counting down the days until he can live off the fat of the land as ex-prez. He's still young enough to enjoy several decades of golfing and shmoozing with celebrities, the only things he demonstrates any real passion for, and I think he's just phoning it in from now on.
And he's smart enough to know that basically doing nothing isn't exactly the worst thing in the world as prez--it's actually a pretty rational way to go out.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
Here's where you can start, Ward:

Better yet, when you pass SF, Ranger, SEAL training, you could already be there! Let us know when you graduate BUDS and I'll buy you a new Mercedes of your choice.
mucci

Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
ISIS terrorist plot for sept 11th in Texas near the border....

Hmmm...

WBraun

climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:37pm PT
Obama can't do sh!t.

He's a puppet bought and paid for by the same pricks that made ISIS.

You people are stupid.

Believe all that bullsh!t you're fed every day on your bought and paid for main stream media.

Stupid sheep ......
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:39pm PT
Fix us up Werner. Please tell us the solution, right after you finish telling us about your time walking a tough cop beat in Detroit.
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:51pm PT
Fix us up Werner. Please tell us the solution,

Is this all you guys can do to support Obama? To try to shift the responsibility away from the President and place it on his critics ----on a personal level.
Very weak and very telling, ---and very sad, and very stupid. The monumental stupidity that put this guy in the most powerful position in the world.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:54pm PT
So sad.



WBraun

climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 01:02pm PT
Look up thread.

Binks gets it.

The rest of ya remain stoooopid .....
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Aug 29, 2014 - 01:19pm PT
I wonder how the ISIS attack on US soil will take shape...just a matter of time now

probably start out with sending Anchor Babies across our eastern border

who, after growing up, make their way to the Corn Palace in Nebraska

where they infiltrate the school system and local economy

and then unveil their true purpose, altering the genetic composition of the US corn crop
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 29, 2014 - 01:52pm PT
Has anyone here expressed support for Obama?


I do. I think he has this exactly right. Enough bombs to discouraage them from making a run at our interests in Baghdad and Erbil and let the remainder of the Middle East, finally, get the religion it craves.

It's gonna get interesting, when they move into Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Toppling the Shia Holy Sites in the South of Iraq.

Can't see why anyone would want to throw our dog into this fight.
kev

climber
A pile of dirt.
Aug 29, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
Arm the Kurds, bomb ISIS and arm the Isralies, then step back and let the whole damn powder keg explode on it's own.


On a side note, if you want to know what's wrong with our country have a nice laugh at this...

Winooski Bistro's Bacon Sign Ignites Internet Storm

kev
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Aug 29, 2014 - 02:53pm PT
I do. I think he has this exactly right. Enough bombs to discouraage them from making a run at our interests in Baghdad and Erbil and let the remainder of the Middle East, finally, get the religion it craves.

Just what religion does it crave? Please forgive me, but the Middle East (better the Near East) has a very substantial population that is neither Shiite nor Sunni, that want no part of this conflict, and are getting slaughtered. I have no illusions that military force against ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State is no trivial proposition, but those who say that air strikes are the beginning and end ignore the nature of that nefarious organization.

DMT asked me earlier if I would send my children to war there, and I responded that they are adults so I don't send them anywhere, but if they (I have two daughters and one son-in-law) chose to join the military and go, I would encourage them. If I were useful, at age 63 with no military experience, I'd go myself.

We are watching the creation of a true terrorist state, with an administration that makes the Taliban, the Islamic Republic of Iran, or any other hostile power in that region seem downright civilized. They extract protection money (called taxes by governments), appropriate resources that they sell, clear out all who disagree or dissent, and are building a state that has the potential for unimaginable evil.

Am I tired of military adventures? Sure -- who isn't? If we and our allies don't take action on the ground, our children and grandchildren will pay for our mistake. Oh well, they already are in other areas, so what's one more?

John
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 29, 2014 - 03:25pm PT
This might even get Locker on board to do something about these creeps!

[Click to View YouTube Video]
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 29, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
Herr Braun is correct, stupid Americans.

Extremist jihadis are trolling us and we are climbing over each other to take the bait.

If they can portray us as anti-Muslim, they have made fools of us and we have done exactly what they want.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 29, 2014 - 05:17pm PT
The Islamic State - Support across the Islamic World

Jordan

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Islamic-States-appeal-presents-Jordan-with-new-test-372761

Since the civil war erupted in neighboring Syria in 2011, hundreds of Jordanians have joined a Sunni Islamist-led insurgency against President Bashar Assad. More than 2,000 men, ranging from underprivileged youths to doctors and - in one case - an air force captain, have abandoned Jordan for jihad in Syria, according to Islamists close to the subject.

At least 250 of them have been killed there.

But the Islamic State's recent accomplishments are helping to galvanize support like never before among radical Islamists who dream of erasing borders across the Muslim world to establish a pan-Islamic nation.

Saudi Arabia

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/29/islamic-state-saudi-arabia-rethink-extremism

Saudi Arabia is increasingly feeling the heat of the Sunni hardline blowback. While the Saudi government technically doesn’t sponsor Isis, it has promoted a fundamentalist Salafi interpretation of Islam that has encroached into the mainstream Sunni space. This has created the conditions, inside and outside the country, for extremism to breed.

The clergy is a powerful force in Saudi Arabia. Its influence derives from the fact that the royal family has entered into a formal pact with the sheikhs, under which the understanding is that the House of Saud can hold on to political power, while the religious establishment gets to dictate the national character of Saudi Arabia, one that has remained doggedly extreme. This vision has also been exported abroad by both state and non-state actors, the former as a clumsy substitute for a coherent foreign policy, by which the Saudi government contributes funds for mosques and charitable organisations in Muslim countries as a way of purchasing influence; the latter via personal wealth and the zeal of private citizens.

Libya

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/08/violence-escalation-libya-militias-hiftar.html

Mohamad Hijazi, Hifter’s spokesman, described the withdrawal of his forces from their camps in Benghazi as a strategic move. However, medical sources, including the Libyan Red Crescent, said that they found at least 75 bodies, mostly soldiers in the National Army faction led by Hifter, whose control was restricted to Tobruk city and some areas in Benghazi.

The Red Crescent found more than 50 bodies inside the camp that was emptied by Al-Saiqa forces. Sources in the city's hospitals reported they had received 25 bodies.

Sources close to Hifter pointed out the weakening of the eastern Libyan tribes as the reason why Hifter’s forces failed to stand their ground. Moreover, the source said that these tribes were mistaken to bet on a call to stop the fighting, launched by Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the former president of the interim council who was appointed mediator between the fighting parties.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 29, 2014 - 05:38pm PT


crankster

Trad climber
Aug 29, 2014 - 06:11pm PT
The president is acting properly. You wants another Iraq debacle? There's not a simple strategy for ever situation ready at the wait.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Aug 29, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
Many of the ISIS terrorists have been breathing chem-trail residue and will likely show up on high resolution , infra-red surveillance photography making easy targets for drone warfare...
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Aug 29, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
The fear is palpable in this thread.

It's no wonder we Americans are so quick to throw our might is right
attitude into places we don't belong.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 29, 2014 - 08:54pm PT
How many times do I have to say AC-130 gunships?

Sats and AC-130's. Easy.....
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Aug 30, 2014 - 08:33am PT
I have to assume that the ISIS reputation is not a fabrication of the CIA and "trickster Hollywood Jews " armed with cgi special effects. But I have no doubt that US foreign policy helped to create ISIS

US foreign policy may have influenced this, but only because WE strive for peace and justice as seen through the prism of Western ideology.

I'm concerned that a half million jihadist fanatics from Northern Africa will settle in the new Islamic State--it must be far better than living in their slums. What will stop them from igniting half the oil wells in the region? And who wants to pay 500 dollars for a tank of gas?

They are driven by Islamic fanaticism and ideology. Their "despair" is a result of the leadership they choose, Islamic fanaticism. Again, this is where we step in and try to show them the "right way".

I also think the US should cut off all military aid sent to Israel. Israel is a wealthy country that can afford to defend itself

Couldn't agree more. Israel can defend itself. However, we should still have it's back when ganged-up on regionally and in the UN. They are an ally. And like Britain, they don't need our money, just our support.
crankster

Trad climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 11:53am PT
Amen. Great article.

To Defeat Terror, We Need the World’s Help
John Kerry: The Threat of ISIS Demands a Global Coalition
IN a polarized region and a complicated world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria presents a unifying threat to a broad array of countries, including the United States. What’s needed to confront its nihilistic vision and genocidal agenda is a global coalition using political, humanitarian, economic, law enforcement and intelligence tools to support military force.

In addition to its beheadings, crucifixions and other acts of sheer evil, which have killed thousands of innocents in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, including Sunni Muslims whose faith it purports to represent, ISIS (which the United States government calls ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) poses a threat well beyond the region.

ISIS has its origins in what was once known as Al Qaeda in Iraq, which has over a decade of experience in extremist violence. The group has amassed a hardened fighting force of committed jihadists with global ambitions, exploiting the conflict in Syria and sectarian tensions in Iraq. Its leaders have repeatedly threatened the United States, and in May an ISIS-associated terrorist shot and killed three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. (A fourth victim died 13 days later.) ISIS’ cadre of foreign fighters are a rising threat not just in the region, but anywhere they could manage to travel undetected — including to America.

There is evidence that these extremists, if left unchecked, will not be satisfied at stopping with Syria and Iraq. They are larger and better funded in this new incarnation, using pirated oil, kidnapping and extortion to finance operations in Syria and Iraq. They are equipped with sophisticated heavy weapons looted from the battlefield. They have already demonstrated the ability to seize and hold more territory than any other terrorist organization, in a strategic region that borders Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey and is perilously close to Israel.

ISIS fighters have exhibited repulsive savagery and cruelty. Even as they butcher Shiite Muslims and Christians in their effort to touch off a broader ethnic and sectarian conflict, they pursue a calculated strategy of killing fellow Sunni Muslims to gain and hold territory. The beheading of an American journalist, James Foley, has shocked the conscience of the world.

With a united response led by the United States and the broadest possible coalition of nations, the cancer of ISIS will not be allowed to spread to other countries. The world can confront this scourge, and ultimately defeat it. ISIS is odious, but not omnipotent. We have proof already in northern Iraq, where United States airstrikes have shifted the momentum of the fight, providing space for Iraqi and Kurdish forces to go on the offensive. With our support, Iraqi leaders are coming together to form a new, inclusive government that is essential to isolating ISIS and securing the support of all of Iraq’s communities.

Airstrikes alone won’t defeat this enemy. A much fuller response is demanded from the world. We need to support Iraqi forces and the moderate Syrian opposition, who are facing ISIS on the front lines. We need to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ capabilities and counter its extremist message in the media. And we need to strengthen our own defenses and cooperation in protecting our people.
Next week, on the sidelines of the NATO summit meeting in Wales, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and I will meet with our counterparts from our European allies. The goal is to enlist the broadest possible assistance. Following the meeting, Mr. Hagel and I plan to travel to the Middle East to develop more support for the coalition among the countries that are most directly threatened.

The United States will hold the presidency of the United Nations Security Council in September, and we will use that opportunity to continue to build a broad coalition and highlight the danger posed by foreign terrorist fighters, including those who have joined ISIS. During the General Assembly session, President Obama will lead a summit meeting of the Security Council to put forward a plan to deal with this collective threat.

In this battle, there is a role for almost every country. Some will provide military assistance, direct and indirect. Some will provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance for the millions who have been displaced and victimized across the region. Others will help restore not just shattered economies but broken trust among neighbors. This effort is underway in Iraq, where other countries have joined us in providing humanitarian aid, military assistance and support for an inclusive government.

Already our efforts have brought dozens of nations to this cause. Certainly there are different interests at play. But no decent country can support the horrors perpetrated by ISIS, and no civilized country should shirk its responsibility to help stamp out this disease.

ISIS’ abhorrent tactics are uniting and rallying neighbors with traditionally conflicting interests to support Iraq’s new government. And over time, this coalition can begin to address the underlying factors that fuel ISIS and other terrorist organizations with like-minded agendas.

Coalition building is hard work, but it is the best way to tackle a common enemy. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the first President George Bush and Secretary of State James A. Baker III did not act alone or in haste. They methodically assembled a coalition of countries whose concerted action brought a quick victory.

Extremists are defeated only when responsible nations and their peoples unite to oppose them.

John Kerry is the secretary of state of the United States.

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 30, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
Israel should worry. I think much of Palestine would swear to ISIS. Beheadings aren't gonna turn them off.

ISIS, has turned the unusual, into the everyday. Attacks begin, with suicide truck bombs in crucial areas. Jihadists storm in through the smoke. Executions follow. All of this, has been going on there forever, but the sheer volume is novel.
Bargainhunter

climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 03:42pm PT
ISIS criminal psychopaths taking over Iraq and Syria and terrorizing the populace like the Nazis did. They certainly should be contained by a global force, because the alternative is much worse. Let this incident be a lesson for those nations/people with a weak military that cannot respond to such a threat. It's really is a regional conflict and the neighbors in this region should have organized a response. Why didn't they? Why does the US frequently have to travel around the globe to mop up other people's mess? What happened to self-reliance?
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Aug 30, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
The time tested way to fix(destroy) a country(dictatorship)
was to waste a large chunk of the population and infrastructure.
Break that cultures connection to past ways of thinking and doing.
Then start clean with (your)new culture.


Warning history content!
The Mongols sacked Bagdad is 1258 when it would not surrender and join
a multi-national army (soldiers from France to China were under the Mongols
command). And aid in conquering more of the Tigris-Euphrates valleys.

As punishment they killed just about every local,mass executions took most
of February 1258, leaving the entire region severly depopulated.

ISIS using the Mongol business model. Copy cats.

WBraun

climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
Why does the US frequently have to travel around the globe to mop up other people's mess?


The US is the one that makes the mess to begin with.

Stupid Americans have no clue .....
Bargainhunter

climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 04:44pm PT
Werner, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, we responded because Kuwait was our ally; no neighboring country in the region bothered despite their wealth (nor was likely capable) of standing up for Kuwait. Subsequent wars in the region further destabilized Iraq, but we also helped rebuild the region and advised for pluralism and inclusion. We invested in their police force and military.

Ultimately, a country has to take it's own initiative and finish the work itself and decide to become functional, as Europe and Japan did after WWII. Iraq failed in this and the consequence of this incompetence and lassitude has been demonstrated by the Isis invasion and atrocities.

Furthermore, the origin of Isis was the civil war in Syria, not by "stupid Americans."

You've got to dig a little deeper Werner; cutting and pasting your same old line doesn't add much to the discussion.
crankster

Trad climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 05:02pm PT
And lithium and vodka don't mix.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 30, 2014 - 05:24pm PT
when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, we responded because Kuwait was our ally; no neighboring country in the region bothered despite their wealth (nor was likely capable) of standing up for Kuwait. Subsequent wars in the region further destabilized Iraq, but we also helped rebuild the region and advised for pluralism and inclusion.

There were 37 members of the coalition, which included a number of middle eastern countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Gulf_War
crankster

Trad climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 05:28pm PT
Doubt we will find a coalition of the willing, but a reluctant one will do.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Aug 30, 2014 - 06:38pm PT
SIS using the Mongol business model. Copy cats.

Nah, that never occurred to them. If you read their handbook, (link previously posted) they are modeling themselves on their founders actions in Medina, Mecca and environs.

Same general result though.

Strategy is easy, if you kill enough of them they will quit fighting

Works both ways.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 30, 2014 - 06:40pm PT
What it IS? I have a clue: US foreign policy=exploitation of natural resources. US wouldn't give a flying f*#k if it wasn't for oil revenue/production potential, kurds, Yazidi, Iraqi christians aside. That's what it IS...
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 30, 2014 - 10:16pm PT
Great opportunity for the anti-muslims to join something that will really make a difference:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/31/us/new-york-kkk-recruitment/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Finally, a place all their own!
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 31, 2014 - 06:39am PT
Obama sure f*#ked this one up. Should have been the Marines who liberated Amerli. If he was a real president, like Dubya or Palin, there would have already been another surge, but one in Syria too. Syria would be a cakewalk with the armchairs calling the shots. Just make sure some more acreage at Arlington is available.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-military-airstrikes-in-iraq-boost-morale-of-thousands-of-besieged-residents/2014/08/31/4cc50f94-30d9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:05am PT
So, "good news".

IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi troops aided by U.S. airstrikes entered the besieged town of Amerli Sunday, residents and Iraqi officials said, after a months-long blockade by Islamic State militants that had surrounded the Shiite Turkmen village and raised fears of an impending massacre.

Karim al-Nouri, a high-ranking official in the Badr Brigades, a large Shiite militia, said that around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, thousands of the militia’s fighters moved toward the nearby Sunni town of Suleiman Beg, thought to be under the Islamic State’s control. Nouri said the operation was carried out in collaboration with other armed groups, the Iraqi air force and army.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-military-airstrikes-in-iraq-boost-morale-of-thousands-of-besieged-residents/2014/08/31/4cc50f94-30d9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html

whoo, the Badr Brigades. We had our own encounters, and not good, IIRC. What a mess this is.
crankster

Trad climber
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:06am PT
Expert analysis, sandstone.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:16am PT
Syria would be a cakewalk

Tell that to your friends in the military who have to walk the walk. Tell it to their graves.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:19am PT
Read my post again, climbski2. Add sarcasm to the content. I know, last recourse of a weak mind and all that.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:23am PT
gotcha.. still waking up I guess.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:31am PT
Sandstone, best to remember that sarcasm comes across poorly in postings.

No one can hear the whine of your voice, the sneer of your lips.

Good to add smileys and such
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 31, 2014 - 08:36am PT
Smileys, ok. Sarcasm italics would be really nice.
Is there a sneering icon?
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Aug 31, 2014 - 11:38am PT
Try,

[sarcasm] your post [/sarcasm]

That would be a pretty obvious one to use.
I too have missed sarcasm and have also failed to convey it in posts.
Easy to do thru type alone.

;-)
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Aug 31, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
Truthfully, I thought "have more acreage at Arlington available" statement wouldn't have been taken seriously....that and armchairs leading the way. Oh well. Try harder next time.
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Aug 31, 2014 - 07:58pm PT
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 1, 2014 - 07:16am PT
http://tbo.com/ap/national/philippine-troops-pull-greatest-escape-in-golan-ap_nationalfe86fe9820c146cd9081a7b1a7ca0e35
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 1, 2014 - 08:19am PT
Just forwarding to you, Wernster, you insufferable little jerk, so you can get the help you so desperately need. But remember, no vodka IV while being treated.

Now go back to the Mind thread.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 1, 2014 - 08:27am PT
Back on topic....warmongers, indeed.

Obama and the Warmongers
The Politics of the ISIS Threat
AUG. 31, 2014

Charles M. Blow
We seem to be drifting inexorably toward escalating our fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, as the Obama administration mulls whether to extend its “limited” bombing campaign into Syria.

Part of the reasoning is alarm at the speed and efficiency with which ISIS — a militant group President Obama described as “barbaric” — has made gains in northern Iraq and has been able to wash back and forth across the Syrian border. Part is because of the group’s ghastly beheading of the American journalist James Foley — which Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., called “ISIS’s first terrorist attack against the United States” — and threats to behead another.

But another part of the equation is the tremendous political pressure coming from the screeching of war hawks and an anxious and frightened public, weighted most heavily among Republicans and exacerbated by the right-wing media machine.

In fact, when the president tried to tamp down some of the momentum around more swift and expansive military action by indicating that he had not decided how best to move forward militarily in Syria, if at all, what Politico called an “inartful phrase” caught fire in conservative circles. When responding to questions, the president said, “We don’t have a strategy yet.”

His aide insisted that the phrase was only about how to move forward in Syria, not against ISIS as a whole, but the latter was exactly the impression conservatives moved quickly to portray.

It was a way of continuing to yoke Obama with the ill effects of a war started by his predecessor and the chaos it created in that region of the world.

In fact, if you listen to Fox News you might even believe that Obama is responsible for the creation of ISIS.

A few months ago, the Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro told her viewers that “you need to be afraid” because of Obama’s fecklessness in dealing with ISIS, adding this nugget:

“And the head of this band of savages is a man named Abu al-Baghdadi — the new Osama bin Laden — a man released by Obama in 2009 who started ISIS a year later.”

That would be extremely troubling, if true. But the fact-checking operation PolitiFact rated it “false,” saying:

“The Defense Department said that the man now known as Baghdadi was released in 2004. The evidence that Baghdadi was still in custody in 2009 appears to be the recollection of an Army colonel who said Baghdadi’s ‘face is very familiar.’

“Even if the colonel is right, Baghdadi was not set free; he was handed over to the Iraqis who released him some time later. But, more important, the legal contract between the United States and Iraq that guaranteed that the United States would give up custody of virtually every detainee was signed during the Bush administration.”

Fox, facts; oil, water.

But the disturbing reality is that the scare tactics are working. In July, a Pew Research Center report found that most Americans thought the United States didn’t have a responsibility to respond to the violence in Iraq.

According to a Pew Research Center report issued last week, however: “Following the beheading of American journalist James Foley, two-thirds of the public (67 percent) cite ISIS as a major threat to the United States.”

The report said that 91 percent of Tea Party Republicans described ISIS as a “major threat” as opposed to 65 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents.

The report also said:

“Half of the sample was asked about ISIS and the other half was asked about the broader threat of ‘Islamic extremist groups like Al Qaeda,’ which registered similar concern (71 percent major threat, 19 percent minor threat, 6 percent not a threat). Democrats were more likely to see global climate change than ISIS as a major threat.

Americans were thrilled by our decision to exit Iraq when we did, but support for that decision is dropping. In October 2011, Gallup asked poll respondents if they approved or disapproved of Obama’s decision that year to “withdraw nearly all United States troops from Iraq.” Seventy-five percent said they approved. In June of this year, the approval rate had fallen to 61 percent.

Now, Republicans are beginning to pull out the big gun — 9/11 — to further scare the public into supporting more action. Senator Lindsey Graham has said on Fox News that we must act to “stop another 9/11,” possibly a larger one, and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has warned, “Sadly, we’re getting back to a pre-9/11 mentality, and that’s very dangerous.”

Fear is in the air. The president is trying to take a deliberative approach, but he may be drowned out by the drums of war and the chants for blood.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 1, 2014 - 08:43am PT
http://sofrep.com/36733/iraq-friends-dead-cant-love-woman-im-gonna-die/
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Sep 1, 2014 - 09:05am PT
dirtbag

climber
Sep 1, 2014 - 09:19am PT
Like I said Tioga, feel free to pack your duffels and go back to Assholistan.
GDavis

Social climber
SOL CAL
Sep 1, 2014 - 09:29am PT
Hi Tioga. Just read the last page. Looks like someone got to you. Oops.
dirtbag

climber
Sep 1, 2014 - 09:32am PT
You're the one who hates the people here, not me. So quit yer nonstop bitching and leave. Only a complete fool would stay where she hates everyone. So go back to yer little hamlet in Assholistan. I'm sure there is a village there that needs an idiot. (Or were you driven out?)

dirtbag

climber
Sep 1, 2014 - 09:49am PT
Please tell us about how perfect Assholistan is, and how perfect Assholistanis such as yourself are. Isn't it true that your babies actually sh#t shiny little diamonds?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 2, 2014 - 01:27am PT
2 options;

Kill murderers, or watch people be murdered.

It's pretty simple. And they are THAT evil.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 2, 2014 - 05:45am PT
2 options

Watch Sunni kill Shia

Watch Shia kill Sunni

Yup. That simple.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/as-battle-lines-shift-in-iraq-sunnis-who-welcomed-the-islamic-state-fear-retribution/2014/09/01/3f3ca9f1-5109-4cc9-9bfc-e548fecd41f2_story.html

BAGHDAD — A day after breaking through a siege by Islamic State militants on the Shiite town of Amerli, Iraqi forces and pro-government militias on Monday pushed their way into nearby villages they accuse of helping to enforce the months-long blockade.

The arrival of the Shiite-dominated armed groups in neighboring Sunni towns raised fears that Sunnis could be targeted in revenge killings.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 2, 2014 - 06:32am PT
We, or rather our government, helped create, train, equip, and fund ISIS initially to overthrow Assad.. How is that not clear? We can now use them to destabilize and destroy Syria and then Iran, installing our own evil sock puppets as we go. Spark a war amongst Sunni's against Shiites.

Ask yourselves if ISIS really were devout muslims waging jihad against the infidels why would they not be plotting against nearby Israel and the murder of other muslims taking place right now across Gaza? That's in their backyard.

This isn't a new playbook although the level of sociopathic behavior is somewhat off the charts. We've created proxy armies before. As a bonus we can use ISIS to terrify the American sheeple. Maybe even another massive false flag attack or two on our soil.

The real enemies to the good people of the USA, and the world for that matter are not abroad.
WBraun

climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 07:47am PT
Fear gets it.

Kos just plain doesn't .....
WBraun

climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 07:58am PT
LOL ......
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 2, 2014 - 08:29am PT
Religions are not the problem.

Sociopaths expanding and exploiting divisions created by those differing religions are. Most people however do not ask "Cui Bono" when seeing coordinated, expansive (and expensive) violence crop up like ISIS. The easy explanation is what MSM is feeding us and to a large degree what the history books have lied to us about.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 2, 2014 - 08:38am PT
This bullshet riff between Shia and Sunni's has been going on throughout that region since their dumbass *religion got established

It really dates back to a family squabble over who would control the franchise and booty that happened immediately after the founders death.


Religions are not the problem.

Sociopaths expanding and exploiting divisions created by those differing religions are.

That would be true if we weren't talking about a religion (cult) founded by a sociopath.

(there have been more than a few of those.)
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 2, 2014 - 09:43am PT
What founded a religion 2000 years ago has no bearing on how the "believers" today view their imaginary friend(s). All religions are cults likely founded by people long ago to benefit themselves. Similiar exploitation throughout the subsequent decades and centuries results in a set of beliefs probably unrecognizable to the original creator.

Most people, regardless of race or color or religion, are good and want the same things. Unfortunately there are few critical thinkers in any society and rifts in beliefs, or skin color, or geography are easy to magnify and exploit. Throw in a healthy % of sociopaths to organize and work the killing machinations and you have otherwise good people now killing other good people for the sake of make believe bullshit covering for the crimes of the oligarchs.

Same as it ever was. The only difference now is the Internet. Perhaps more people will now wake up. Perhaps less blood can be shed.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 2, 2014 - 10:27am PT
Those ISIS death mongers have trained themselves over the past 1500 years.

Which means these really, really old guys are tottering at us on their walkers.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Sep 2, 2014 - 10:29am PT
Same as it ever was. The only difference now is the Internet. Perhaps more people will now wake up. Perhaps less blood can be shed.

Great evils come and go. Their lifespans seem to be shorter the more light shed on them. Sad so many suffer even during a short time they exist.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 2, 2014 - 12:07pm PT
Pure propaganda to get the American public to support MOAR WOAR.....

The domination of the US dollar is at an end and WOAR is needed badly. Just wait for the "ISIS" attack on something stateside.

I need to watch Wag the Dog again...
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 2, 2014 - 12:09pm PT
ISIS is not doing what it's doing for the good of the American dollar, I promise.
mucci

Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
Sep 2, 2014 - 03:03pm PT
Another us journalist was just beheaded.

What to do...

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 03:09pm PT
"Truth is the vast majority of Americans don't give a damn about ISIS, muslim on muslim violence, wars in the middle east, beheading journalists, enslaving women and kids.... none of that."

Who's truth would that be? Not one supported by data, apparently:

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/most-americans-worry-about-obamas-lack-strategy-isis/tue-09022014-1236pm

Perhaps, just perhaps, the failed American invasion of occupation that gave birth to ISIS makes Americans somewhat circumspect about how our country should counter that threat. I think that's called being smart.

Just a thought.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 03:46pm PT
DD 214 (got one) or no - I wasn't aware one needed to have served in the military to be concerned about or support action against ISIS.

ISIS cut a couple of journalist's heads off, and that sucks - particularly if you're one of the two - but that was designed to get folks to freak the f*#k out, and boy, did it work!

Is ISIS THAT much of a threat, though? Not really. They're good at leaking into a power vacuum, like Mosul and Tikrit (originally Sunni anyway - they're just restoring the status quo there), but elsewhere? Nah. They got their asses kicked out of Jordan, where they began. The local Al Qaeda franchises largely booted them from Syria. Nobody likes an out-of-towner swaggering in and telling the locals what's what.

Will ISIS take Baghdad? Probably not. They actually suck at coordinating fighting against an enemy that doesn't actually slip out voluntarily - with the exception of about 1000 Chechen fighters, who really are bad-asses.

Will they squirt north? Nope. The Kurds would mop the floor with them, and they know it. What they have done is partition Iraq in a way that was pretty much inevitable after Bush destabilized the joint in 2003 - SU-NNI! SU-NNI! SU-NNI! and that's where it will stall. So far, it's been all getting their asses kicked or scraping up low hanging dates with them.

But hey, feel free to freak the f*#k out and demand the US do something truly, abysmally stupid (UH-gain) because of those two beheadings.

By all means, be the audience a few Jihadist performance artists want you to be.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:01pm PT
No, it's all about keeping your thinking cap on and not running over the cliff with all the other lemmings.

With you, however, it does, in fact, seem to be all about me ;)
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:04pm PT
i don't care who killed who in the middle east
or in Israel.

and i don't want to pay a single dime for us defense corporations to kill people in mud huts with million dollar planes and missiles. sorry no. i don't care.

i vote no. clean up our own country. stop crime here. stop robbing the people and destroying the land HERE.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:04pm PT
the failed American invasion of occupation that gave birth to ISIS

just a wee-bit simplistic. /sarc

My sense is, you think you know more, a lot more, about ISIS and what makes them tick than you do. In this regard, you're no more helpful than The Chief on the climate thread. :(

There are as many crazies on the far left as there are crazies on the right. NO where is this clearer than what they have to say regarding Islam, partic re jihadi Islam and fundamentalist Islam.

Opinions of every stripe. On the left. On the right. It's not unlike what Seven said: "You lack harmony, cohesion. It will be your undoing."
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:11pm PT
nobody cares.

in another week, nobody will even remember.

the media is owned by a few large corporations.

over 100 people got shot in Chicago on the 4th, but that really wasn't big news.

nobody i know even talks about the major news corporation headlines.

it makes ZERO difference to daily life, and it's all fabricated to suit a political agenda one way or another

sorry "news" corporations, Al Qaeda at least sounded vaguely threatening.

ISIS crisis, whoo hoo!

next year it will be what ?

it's a constant crisis!!! it never ends! lol. and if I'd never once paid attention, my life wouldn't be any different one way or another. sorry, no, i don't feel any panic whatsoever. fail.

there's millions of people living in shanty towns, it's not a crisis. what's a crisis anyway?
WBraun

climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:16pm PT
Oh c'mon guys ....

Lets get together a grab one of them (ISIS) dudes, preferably their stupid leader.

We'll cut his head off on TV for them to see.

Then we'll take his head and put it in a shopping cart and go shopping with it in Wall Mart (the epitome of capitalism) all on TV for them to see.

That will piss em off ......

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:20pm PT
They'll care after a nuclear bomb detonates in a big US city. And this is my judgment (knowing about Abrahamic fundamentalism and what it means), not Faux News. You think 9-11 was a disruption to our economy and way of life, that'll be quickly forgotten. Till though, we're alarmists.
Reeotch

climber
4 Corners Area
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:24pm PT
Alright, this is getting to be too much.

Neither of these videos, from what I hear, shows the whole beheading the whole way through, without cuts.

There have been other videos of behadings, I think the other one I saw was linked up on supertopo, that show the whole gory business, all the way through, so there can be no mistake. This sh!t is BS!

Have you noticed the verbage used by the mainstream media: "Video shows the apparent beheading"; "Video purportedly shows the beheading . . . "

In other words we have no proof!!!!!!

Oh, I'm sorry, did they deliver Folley's body, so we can verify.

Yeah right

Where are all the debunkers, now???
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:26pm PT
But back to Iraq...

ISIS is good at sweeping into to power vacuum, in a Sunni region no less, and that has 'stunned the world'. Really? Their success there is a surprise - to anyone? Now everyone's all a-jitter about The Caliphate (TM), but don't look for that to extend much further than their home turf - a land full of a butt-hurt religious minority who's been itching to regain a bit of clout since their 2003 emasculation.

There seems to be some sense that Al Qaeda is magically going to re-constitute into some harmonious, world wide threat to the entire region, rather than the squabbling constellation of competing colloquial warlords it really is. This ain't the Wermacht we're talking about here - this is the mafia with a cell phone video camera. Pretty effective tool at reviving the Islam Against the Free World meme - always helpful when trying to enact the kind of wise foreign policy that won't actually blow our own faces off and a whole bunch of regional locals along with them.

Sure, life in Baghdad is going to (continue to) suck with bombings - like it has since 2003.

That's hardly a reason for a Let's Roll Redux, however.

Not that that didn't work out really, really well or anything.

Oh, and I'm sure midterms have NOTHING to do with the rhetoric flying around the country right now. No, that could never happen.



WBraun

climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:27pm PT
Reeotch gets it.

Apparently Foley was beheaded a year ago but there still is no proof.

Professional expert video analysis rendered huge doubts to its authenticity with their conclusion its fake.

Foley has history with the CIA.

There's way more ......
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 04:44pm PT
Americans (sans me) are watching beheading videos - "the HORROR!", Jihaddis are watching drone beheading videos "الرعب!" - and each side is rebel yelling and ululating in response. After all, that's what street theatre is for. Should such isolated nastiness, disturbing as it may be, cause the United States to check it's brain at the door and go full metal jacket (uh-gain) on the region's ass?

While DMT may be running to his nearest recruiting office to get an age waiver, the answer is, of course, no.

A video is not a threat to national or regional security.

When one analyses ISIS history, capabilities - and all the local forces, political and military, that keep it in check - the answer seems to be that it is a highly localized threat that has capitalized on a highly localized political and military vacuum in the Sunni Triangle.

By all means, eye your local neighborhood mosque with suspicion as your time allows - everyone needs a hobby, but suddenly subscribing to McMoron's standard alarmist schtick - the very thing that destabilized Iraq in the first place, doesn't seem to me to be exactly the most well-thought out, effective course of action here.

As for suit case bombs - well, that's a threat, sure, but one that doesn't have much to do with the conflict at hand, here. If memory serves, Iran doesn't yet have a bomb, but if it does - I don't think ISIS presents toooo much of an invasion threat there. Iran and North Korea are going to do what they're going to do regardless of whether ISIS exists. In other words, that's a very different problem to solve.

The administration should continue to keep its own head on and continue to work the problem in a way that won't, as has so often been the case - make the regional situation worse.

Iraq either needs to give ISIS a good talking to, contain it, fold it in politically (using a little cartel breaking strategy, perhaps, or a combination of all of the above. Sunni disenfranchisement is at the heart of all this - and that's not going to go away if it's not addressed somehow. This will probably involve developing more alliances, regionally and further afield. A local solution will have more staying power than another US get in/get out adventure. Perhaps ISIS has provided the street theatre necessary to make this actually happen. Al-Maliki's finally excising himself in reaction - providing a more fertile environment for this to happen.

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 05:08pm PT
Apparently Foley was beheaded a year ago but there still is no proof.

Professional expert video analysis rendered huge doubts to its authenticity with their conclusion its fake.

Foley has history with the CIA.

There's way more ......
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
The reality of Let's Roll (kick the bad guys asses!) is that local folks often wind up taking in the shorts. If they are perceived to be collaborating with the White Hats, the Black Hats get 'em. And vice versa. In the end, enough tragedy and resentment can be built up to set the region up for the next conflict.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 2, 2014 - 06:02pm PT
A long interview with an Iraqi.

http://foreign-intrigue.com/2014/09/voices-from-the-front-2/
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 2, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
The reality of Let's Roll (kick the bad guys asses!) is that local folks often wind up taking in the shorts. If they are perceived to be collaborating with the White Hats, the Black Hats get 'em. And vice versa. In the end, enough tragedy and resentment can be built up to set the region up for the next conflict.


A lot of equivocating going on here, and deflection.

While I will grant you that the videos posted recently never actually show the active deaths of the 2 reporters, lets keep sh#t real.

These mother-f*#kers executed many Yazidis and Christians and Iraqi regular Army. That's only in Iraq!

In Syria they did just as much, setting up 'meathouses' where they dismembered people limb by limb. I can provide the links if you're willing.

Denying that we're dealing with monsters is naive. Putin should be the least of our current worries. We have really bad actors coming after us, and they have proven that they want to kill us.

Wake up. Shut down the southern border or there will be hell to pay. They are already trying to exploit it.

I think I have a link here somewhere...
http://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/imminent-terrorist-attack-warning-feds-us-border/

johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Sep 2, 2014 - 07:31pm PT
^^^^^^

hahahahaha
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 2, 2014 - 08:21pm PT
We are certainly dealing with monsters Bluey... monsters we made and continue to support.

The MSM drivel is so bad now it's almost cartoonish.
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Sep 2, 2014 - 08:51pm PT
Monsters at our borders, next we'll have monsters under our beds.
God help us. We need bigger walls around us to keep us safe.


crankster

Trad climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 09:12pm PT
Read this. It makes sense.

Ready, Aim, Fire. Not Fire, Ready, Aim.
SEPT. 2, 2014

Thomas L. Friedman
President Obama has been excoriated for declaring that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for effectively confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In criticizing Obama for taking too much time, Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told “Fox News Sunday” that “this ‘don’t-do-stupid-stuff’ policy isn’t working.” That sounded odd to my ear — like we should just bomb somebody, even if it is stupid. If Obama did that, what would he be ignoring?

First, experience. After 9/11 that sort of “fire, ready, aim” approach led George W. Bush to order a ground war in Iraq without sufficient troops to control the country, without a true grasp of Iraq’s Shiite-Sunni sectarian dynamics, and without any realization that, in destroying the Sunni Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the Sunni Baathist regime in Iraq, we were destroying both of Iran’s mortal enemies and thereby opening the way for a vast expansion of Iran’s regional influence. We were in a hurry, myself included, to change things after 9/11, and when you’re in a hurry you ignore complexities that come back to haunt you later.

There are no words to describe the vileness of the video beheadings of two American journalists by ISIS, but I have no doubt that they’re meant to get us to overreact, à la 9/11, and rush off again without a strategy. ISIS is awful, but it is not a threat to America’s homeland.

Second, the context. To defeat ISIS you have to address the context out of which it emerged. And that is the three civil wars raging in the Arab world today: the civil war within Sunni Islam between radical jihadists and moderate mainstream Sunni Muslims and regimes; the civil war across the region between Sunnis funded by Saudi Arabia and Shiites funded by Iran; and the civil war between Sunni jihadists and all other minorities in the region — Yazidis, Turkmen, Kurds, Christians, Jews and Alawites.

When you have a region beset by that many civil wars at once, it means there is no center, only sides. And when you intervene in the middle of a region with no center, you very quickly become a side.

ISIS emerged as an extreme expression of resentment by one side: Iraqi and Syrian Sunnis who felt cut out of power and resources by the pro-Iranian Shiite regime in Baghdad and the pro-Iranian Alawite/Shiite regime in Damascus. That is why Obama keeps insisting that America’s military intervention must be accompanied, for starters, by Iraqis producing a national unity government — of mainstream Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — so our use of force supports pluralism and power-sharing, not just Shiite power.

But power-sharing doesn’t come easy in a region where kinship and sectarian loyalties overwhelm any sense of shared citizenship. Without it, though, the dominant philosophy is either: “I am strong, why should I compromise?” or “I am weak, how can I compromise?” So any onslaught we make on ISIS, absent national unity governments, will have Shiites saying the former and Sunnis saying the latter. That’s why this is complicated.

And this is a sectarian power struggle. Consider a Times article last week about how ISIS is actually being led by a combination of jihadists and disgruntled Sunni Iraqi Baathist Army officers, who were shoved aside either by us or Iraq’s Shiite-dominated governments.

The Times article noted: “After ISIS stormed into Mosul, one [Shiite] Iraqi official recalled a startling phone call from a [Sunni] former major general in one of [Saddam] Hussein’s elite forces. The former general had appealed months earlier to rejoin the Iraqi Army, but the official had refused. Now the [Sunni] general was fighting for ISIS and threatened revenge. ‘We will reach you soon, and I will chop you into pieces,’ he said, according to the official, Bikhtiyar al-Qadi, of the commission that bars some former members of Mr. Hussein’s Baath Party from government posts.”

Repeat after me: “We will reach you soon, and I will chop you into pieces.” That is what we are dealing with here — multiple, venomous civil wars that are the breeding ground of the ISIS cancer.

Third, our allies are not fully allies: While the Saudi, Qatari and Kuwaiti governments are pro-American, wealthy Sunni individuals, mosques and charities in these countries are huge sources of funds, and fighters, for ISIS.

As for Iran, if we defeat ISIS, it would be the third time since 2001 that we’ve defeated a key Sunni counterbalance to Iran — first the Taliban, then Saddam, now ISIS. That is not a reason not to do it, but it is reason to do it in a way that does not distract us from the fact that Iran’s nuclear program also needs to be defused, otherwise it could undermine the whole global nonproliferation regime. Tricky.

I’m all-in on destroying ISIS. It is a sick, destabilizing movement. I support using U.S. air power and special forces to root it out, but only as part of a coalition, where everybody who has a stake in stability there pays their share and where mainstream Sunnis and Shiites take the lead by demonstrating that they hate ISIS more than they hate each other. Otherwise, we’ll end up in the middle of a God-awful mess of duplicitous allies and sectarian passions, and nothing good we do will last.
WBraun

climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 09:52pm PT
Nothing will work for you as you just keep reinforcing the nutcase you really are .....
WBraun

climber
Sep 2, 2014 - 10:35pm PT
Yeah you're right.

You're too stupid to even be a neocon.

Just plain stupid nutcase period ....
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 2, 2014 - 11:51pm PT
Yes, ISIS is an unkillable army of 100' tall monsters. They eat bullets and sh#t RPGs. They will take Iran in an hour - then they'll be 1000' tall and emit gamma rays from their eyeballs.

The best thing any of us can do now is apply for a mid level management position with them so when they get here, which will be next week or so, they won't wear our heads like hats for Holloween.

Bargainhunter

climber
Sep 3, 2014 - 12:38am PT
Tvash, we get your point.

But just because ISIS had been kicked out of Jordan and Syria doesn't mean they are an idle threat that will dissipate.

Saudi billionaire bid Laden had been stripped of his Saudi citizenship, had been living in Sudan and was then expulsed, and made his way to Afghanistan in the early/mid 90s as it was one of the only places dysfunctional enough to offer him asylum. He had money, just like ISIS does, to propagate his own violent agenda, and he proved to be a significant threat.

Beheadings and genocide are atrocities that SHOULD get people to act and universally condemn the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

The Nazis rose to power by perpetrating a terror campaign like ISIS. Early on, they dragged shopkeepers out of their shops and shot them arbitrarily to instill fear in others, forcing acquiescence. People felt powerless to resist. Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's book "Diary of a Man in Despair" describes how the Nazis rose to power in this way.

I'm glad the US is intervening in Iraq to quash the ISIS threat. I'm proud that we have the capability to do so.
Bargainhunter

climber
Sep 3, 2014 - 01:13am PT
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/death-steven-sotloff
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 3, 2014 - 08:49am PT
I never said ISIS would dissipate. I said something quite different - and detailed, so I needn't repeat it.

If Obama wants to send Seal Team Six to make a house call on a few High-on-Allah video bloggers, that's fine. We should protect Americans abroad. No argument there.

Countering ISIS is a very different problem - and issue, however. Let's be clear out our specific objectives here, and not conflate our actions.

If we're out to wipe out all 10,000 or so ISIS members to punish a handful of jaggoffs, that's sheer idiocy. The civilian collateral damage alone would kills thousands of innocents. Obviously, ISIS strolled into the Sunni triangle virtually unopposed - the local (Sunnis) certainly didn't rise up. I would say the movement is probably quite popular locally. Does that indicate that the best course of action might just involve a political component? History would indicate a resounding yes.

But we can't do that, can we? ISIS = MONSTERS! THEY HAVE NOT LEGITIMATE INTERESTS! THEY JUST WANT TO KILL EVERYBODY! Hmmmm.

If we're intended on making ISIS go away as a threat - let's think about that. A threat to whom? Us? Not hardly. I don't buy that. There are plenty of failed states already from which terrorism can springboard.

So, who is ISIS threatening? Iraq? What notion of Iraq are we talking about? Why are we involved in that? Should we be?

Many Americans seem not to ask these questions. "We've got to punish the beheaders!" Really? How about the child-rapers and killers in Darfur? The list is long there.

I'm not answering these questions, mind you. Don't assume you know my opinions - I guarantee you do not. I'm just asking them, because no one else seems to be.

Oh, and its midterms. The Rs are slated to win all of congress. No, Wag the Dog couldn't possibly play into any of this. That could never happen.
Delhi Dog

climber
Good Question...
Sep 3, 2014 - 08:52am PT
Consider this;

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/03/opinion/isis-atrocities-propaganda/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 3, 2014 - 09:08am PT
Obama-the-surrender-monkey has 'neutralized' more top Al Qaeda figures in a single year than Bush did in two terms, including...wait for it...the guy who actually perped 911.

It's a style/swagger thing - the chickenhawk crowd loves the window dressing. That's why that sh#t is festooned all over their Harleys and Ram3000s. If you don't think I'm awesome, just ask me.

Oh, and per capita Medicare costs just dropped for the first time in decades. Damn that sochulist.

Expect an R congress to quickly attempt to f*#k that up for all of us soon enough.



Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 3, 2014 - 10:37am PT
Rest assured, if we (re)invade the Sunni Triangle, many thousands of Sunni 'collaborators' will die in the process. We'll have a worse political problem than when we started out.

But hey, we'll bring those head-chopper-offers to 'justice', right?

Er, actually, we'll probably never find them, or it'll be 12 years later, but that was never really the point, was it?

WHAT IF WE COULD HAVE KILLED HITLER AS A CHILD?

There's really no end to the stupid train once a beheading video goes viral. Everyone wants to GO BIG OR GO HOME. F*#K YEAH!

But, damn that pesky causality. Our history of GOING BIG just hasn't worked out so well - Al Qaeda is, after all, our own bastard step-child, born of our previous chest butting with the Russkies. Not all our fault, of course. Everybody had a hand in that card game.

That Iraq has partitioned itself along sectarian lines should come as no surprise to anyone. Does Iraq really need to be re-glued together to restore its previously imposed colonial borders? Why, exactly? Because its an America project? I believe Korea and Vietnam were also American projects. Hmmmm.

Ahhhh, the justice thing. I spend a good deal of my time and money working in that field domestically. I understand actions based on principle - within the American legal system, that is.

The Middle East isn't that, however.

So send in the drones, whack some as#@&%es, and call them the perps, and grab some headlines for High Nooners out there.

Provide air support for the Iraqi Army and Persh Merga (actually, the latter seem to be able to kick ISIS ass without all that much help).

If the Iraqi Army doesn't want to fight (they've certainly got the means to achieve a decisive victory already)? F*#k em. F*#k Iraq. Leave it. Let the region figure it out.

Or we could listen to McMoron and Company and re-invade Iraq. 3rd time's a charm!

THAT idea is sheer lunacy.

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 3, 2014 - 11:10am PT
You're hitting homers, Tvash, keep it up!
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Sep 3, 2014 - 11:57am PT
what john McCain and associate in the Mil left loose in Syria to take care of Assad is now going to bite Saudi king and turn ME in to a full grown war like never seen before and this is just a beginning .
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 3, 2014 - 01:34pm PT
McMoron and Company

Sad. War Hero. But no doubt, he left whatever brains he had, on the floor of the Hanoi Hilton.

If he'd been elected, we would've degraded Syria, to the point, there is little doubt, ISIS would have it all.

Anyone that voted for him, should take a good hard look at the policies he's advocated, the countries he wanted to invade, and cut their Voter ID Card in half.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 3, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
One of the problems is that there is plenty of loose money around Saudi Arabia et al to fund any Jihadist militia that springs up. The ISIS army is actually pretty well paid - up to $1500 a month, so everybody's lining up to the trough for that kind of coin.

Oh, wait, they're doing it all to create the Caliphate. Right. Forgot.

That's not to say this little Jihadi clubs don't immediately disappear again, cash in hand. They do. Just like when we arrived in Iraq and Afghanistan with pallet loads of cash.

"HE ONLY LOOKS 90 YEARS OLD! THE MAN IS A TERRORIST, I SWEAR TO ALLAH! Now, about my reward..."


Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 3, 2014 - 02:33pm PT
Oh, BTW, that's not fictional. There was a 90 year old man imprisoned at Guantanamo.

And a 13 year old boy - several, in fact. There were 15 kids ages 13 to 17 imprisoned there.

I'm sure every one of them was a monster.

Anyone raising a teenager would probably agree.

ahad aham

Trad climber
Sep 3, 2014 - 04:31pm PT
Rita Katz
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 3, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
Never heard of her.

And the fake video thing? I'm not a part of that debate.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Sep 3, 2014 - 10:54pm PT

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 3, 2014 - 11:19pm PT
You and John McCain disagree. He thinks Obama was against arming ISIS

http://t.mediaite.com/mediaite/#!/entry/mccain-makes-revealing-slip-on-fox-obama-didnt-want-to,54065aa6b7d8d24162e68a54
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 4, 2014 - 05:32am PT
Putin has to slaughter Ukrainians before he can slaughter jihadis. He'd have to set up a virtual abattoir to git 'er done.

McCain should just shut his old pie up. Be thankful that dude never became president.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 4, 2014 - 06:42am PT
Yup, those Chechnans are the worst. Even the sister of the Boston Bombers just got popped for a bomb threat. Should be line one of the immigration bill. No Chechnans.

and Werner, I don't think the video is a fake.



http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/02/why-we-dont-have-a-strategy-yet-makes-good-strategic-sense-against-the-islamic-state/

Last week, while most of that was still going on, the president was asked at a press conference whether he would seek congressional approval to take action against the Islamic State in Syria as well as Iraq. He said yes but it would have to wait until specific plans were fully developed in light of all possible variables: “We don’t have a strategy yet.”

Widely and in some places willfully taken out of context to mean “I have no idea what we should do”, that quote was the headline everywhere, the talk of the Sunday morning news shows. Of all the many politicians and pundits to castigate Obama for lack of a detailed battle plan, perhaps the most remarkable was Kentucky’s Senator Rand Paul, a libertarian deeply suspicious of U.S. military action, someone who opposed punishing Syria for its use of chemical weapons and who has advocated cutting off all foreign aid.

Yup. We need to let the clowns in the ME simmer.
Bargainhunter

climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:06am PT
Surviving an ISIS Massacre


ISIS massacred hundreds of Iraqi military recruits in June. Ali Hussein Kadhim survived. This is his improbable story:


http://nyti.ms/1pL7ZQE
WBraun

climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 08:32am PT
That's just plain genocide.

No sane human being can do such a thing.

Not even animals do such a thing.

They are worst than any animal.

The western criminal regimes are responsible for this sh!t.

They are the ones who originally started this sh!t years ago with their greedy destabilization of the regions
for the ultimate gain of the resources to feed their industrialization machines.

WBraun

climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 09:00am PT
You guys don't get it at all.

You will be all reborn there to suffer the karmic reactions of your present day actions that brought this back to the surface.

Destabilization of the region by the Wests greed for the resources to feed it's mechanized industrialized out of control monster is the present cause.

You are denying that ......
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 5, 2014 - 09:00am PT
Duffield...thanks for the article...
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 09:57am PT
Let the President handle it and go about your climbing stuff.

Ahmed Godane, the leader of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, was killed in a U.S. military operation, the Pentagon said Friday.
A look inside Al-Shabaab
"The U.S. military undertook operations against Godane on Sept. 1, which led to his death. Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to Al-Shabaab," said Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby.
On Monday, U.S. military conducted a strike in the African country targeting Godane, who pledged allegiance to al Qaeda. He has headed the Al-Shabaab as it has terrorized East Africa, killing Somali officials, aid workers and others in a spate of suicide bombings. Godane allegedly was behind 2013's deadly siege of a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 5, 2014 - 11:00am PT
Ah, savagery. Let's Pump Up The Volume! Shall we all rebel yell together to drown out all that ululating over there? That Mujammad invented it is a kiddie cartoon, of course. Jane Goodall, anyone? Even a cursory understanding of who Mujammad actually was reveals that he was a reformer in a largely lawless region who put an end to many savage practices, particularly with regards to women. No, violence is simply what we hominids do.

But once we're beyond such ridiculous proclamations, what is savagery, anyway? Is it a beheading? Does an English ax, samurai sword, or French guillotine count? Is it destroying an entire city with a single bomb? Or an entire city with a fire storm created by many? Is it napalm? Or burying people alive with bulldozers? How about the wiping out of a native population with smallpox and starvation?

'Savage' is a classic way to dehumanize one's perceived enemies, and a well worn one in American history. It's the American equivalent of the Rwandan 'cockroach'. From 'Slopes' to 'Spearchucker', one needn't even cross to the border find a rich vocabulary there. A 'savage' understands only one thing: death. A savage can't be reasoned with. It (it's not really human, after all) has no agenda worth discussing. Savages must be exterminated.

Inconveniently, our 'enemies' are every bit as human as ourselves. Always. And we can be every bit as 'savage' as they are when put to the test. Even when we just push a button and take another sip of our coffee.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 5, 2014 - 01:24pm PT
FYI - Defcon gets more severe as the number gets lower, not higher.

Defcon 1 is "Unleash the Kraken"

Teeing off would actually be about right for Defcon 6.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
That was a good post, Tvash.

.....


ISIS is just the kind of distraction, or perhaps better, godsend, Iran needed right now as it forges ahead with its nuclear energy ambitions.

Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.
Caeneus

Big Wall climber
Eureka, Ca
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:15pm PT
"No, violence is simply what we hominids do."
Truer words never were spoken.
Caeneus

Big Wall climber
Eureka, Ca
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:18pm PT
Perhaps all y'all need to get out into the fresh air and give your keyboards a rest.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:22pm PT
We created ISIS?? Why would anyone believe an idiotic thing like that?
Simple minds drift towards simple explanations, I suppose.

Again:
To defeat ISIS you have to address the context out of which it emerged. And that is the three civil wars raging in the Arab world today: the civil war within Sunni Islam between radical jihadists and moderate mainstream Sunni Muslims and regimes; the civil war across the region between Sunnis funded by Saudi Arabia and Shiites funded by Iran; and the civil war between Sunni jihadists and all other minorities in the region — Yazidis, Turkmen, Kurds, Christians, Jews and Alawites.

When you have a region beset by that many civil wars at once, it means there is no center, only sides. And when you intervene in the middle of a region with no center, you very quickly become a side.

ISIS emerged as an extreme expression of resentment by one side: Iraqi and Syrian Sunnis who felt cut out of power and resources by the pro-Iranian Shiite regime in Baghdad and the pro-Iranian Alawite/Shiite regime in Damascus. That is why Obama keeps insisting that America’s military intervention must be accompanied, for starters, by Iraqis producing a national unity government — of mainstream Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — so our use of force supports pluralism and power-sharing, not just Shiite power.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:26pm PT
A 14 yo Yazidi girl escaped, after being held 27 days. They sold her as a slave to an old man in Falujah.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1409952601

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 5, 2014 - 03:30pm PT
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 04:30pm PT
One or two out of 100 of you climber-philosophizers might know who Scott Atran is - you might even know he's been at odds with the likes of Sam Harris (at least since 2006) who's also written pieces since 9/11 over just what motivates young people of Islam (esp males) to take to jihad. Anyways, here's a piece just yesterday in the Guardian from Atran that one or two of you might find interesting or insightful.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/04/jihad-fatal-attraction-challenge-democracies-isis-barbarism?CMP=twt_gu

"what inspires the most lethal terrorists in the world today is not so much the Qur’an or religious teachings as a thrilling cause and call to action that promises glory and esteem in the eyes of friends."

"Volunteers for Isis are surfing for the sublime and all that is lacking in the jaded, tired world of democratic liberalism, especially on the margins where Europe’s immigrants mostly live."

.....

quest for glory
quest for meaning, purpose
quest for the sublime
quest for belonging

Not as hard for the alpha male in any community or tribe, you'll note. (Yet how little this aspect of it - the angst, discontent, restlessness, impulse instinct or interest of subalpha males to stir the pot, etc. - is ever mentioned.)

"Is our ideal now merely one of “ease, security, and avoidance of pain”, as Orwell surmised in explaining why Nazism, fascism and Stalinism had such a strong pull on engagement and commitment, especially among adventurous youth? For the future of liberal democracies, even beyond the threat from violent jihadis, this may be the core existential issue."

What a person (eg, a young adventurous male) makes of meaning or purpose can be such a strong function of where he sees himself on the totem pole of haves and havenots. If he sees himself on the bottom, he's likely restless and his likely ambition is to move up. Esp being the social creature he is, the social creatures we are.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 05:34pm PT
Fire missiles in all directions! We'll hit someone!
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 5, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
If I were a useless puppet/anchorman like 'Bama in this situation I'd be golfing as much as I could too. Why not?

Oh to be a fly on the wall in that den of Evil in D.C.....

He seems to be a man of average intelligence which, in contrast to the last retarded puppet, makes him seem like a genius. Hell, this one can even clearly read the script he's handed.

I think in the beginning, 'Bama the man perhaps really had good intentions. Perhaps he got the special screening of the Zapruder film. But now with things spiraling out of control I almost pity him. Not enough not to charge him with treason too but I wonder if it's always been an act or if he did have good intent in the beginning. His eyes seem weary.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
His name is Barack Obama. Have some respect.
Easy job, huh? You think Mitt would he cruising along, defeating the evil doers?
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 5, 2014 - 08:10pm PT
His name is Barack Obama. Have some respect.

I have always referred to him by his name, or by his office (i.e. The President). I wonder how many people who are rankled by belittling of Barak Obama engaged in doing the same thing to George W. Bush.

John
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 08:13pm PT
Might be true for some. I called him Bush. I think the vitriol for this president is unprecedented.
Racial and extreme right ideology fueled. Mostly.

But it's not even close to what Bush got. Not by a mile.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 5, 2014 - 09:26pm PT
Chief...I knew a Navy guy that worked one of the joy sticks....he said it messed him up ...I think he may have been on heli rescue also..?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 6, 2014 - 07:15am PT
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/01/female-pkk-fighters-may-be-isils-worst-nightmare.html?comp=7000023435630&rank=5
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:06am PT
The Chief...The difference between the joy stick jockey and the F-18 jockey is that the Happy Meal ends up all over the cockpit canopy and McDonalds won't allow uniformed men in the Play Land..Have you heard about the new Air Force skirts...? They allow you to see the cockpit...rj
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:36am PT
TGT...The ISIS terrorists are afraid of being killed by women guerillas....? Tough guys eh..?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 11:44am PT
re: ISIS fukers

Yeah, they're making quite the name for themselves. And along the way, for Islam, too.

And along the way, for Abrahamic religion, too. All of them.

Christopher Hitchens was right, he was spot on...
http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything-ebook/dp/B00287KD4Q/

Subtitle: How Religion Poisons Everything
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 6, 2014 - 02:22pm PT
I'm pretty sure most members of ISIS haven't read Christopher Hitchins.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 04:11pm PT
re: "Islam, religion of peace"

"Isis does not represent Islam... Isis is not the true mujahideen... Isis is an organisation to make people think Islam is bad."

Who can stand the truth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71C-wM70eE0

CONTENT WARNING

Who reads the Koran? Anyone?

.....


Welcome to the Caliphate America

If you've got twitter, check out jihadist joe...

http://twitter.com/JihadistJoe
7SacredPools

Trad climber
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Sep 6, 2014 - 07:14pm PT
Some thoughtful analysis:

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/06/from_911_to_the_isis_videos_the_darkness_we_conjured_up/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I feel really bad for the families of those murdered jouralists. I also feel bad for all the families of murdered civilians whoever is doing the killing. Including our governments.
Is "killing all of them" really as sensible as it sounds?

Garry
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 6, 2014 - 09:02pm PT
Jim's got it right.

Atrocity isn't committed by an ism - it's committed by individuals.

What is the message embedded within claiming that Islam is the religion of violence? What's the recommended action there? Extermination of all Muslims? I think that one's been tried a few times with mixed results.

After a decade of failure and destabilization in the region, does anyone really believe we're going to just swagger in and get it right this time? Has ISIS agreed to assemble into a tidy phalanx, far from any urban center, so we can open up a can of High Noon on them?

This is a sectarian civil war. Good luck tucking into that.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 09:29pm PT
You two clowns deserve each other. Just what crazy ass assumptions are you making? I've read nobody on any post on this thread (barring the Chief, I don't read his posts nor the neocons'posts) suggesting the West bomb the Muslims or even ISIS communities. Although Biden last week said we'd chase em to the Gates of Hell.

Purile rubes, lol!


PS JB, learn some science. An antiscience attitude is just so... unbecoming... in the 21st century. And regarding bigots or bigotry (a term which derives from "by God" by the way) this is religion's specialty. Since I am not Abrahamic - Jewish, Christian or Muslim - the term applied to us "science types" is ludicrous. You can find a better one if youre intent on (drunkish or drunk-like late night) name-calling.

Further, if you can't stand the heat regarding such subjects as evolution, living up to a science education, exploring the implications of free will as an "illusion" etc etc etc, - i'd suggest not engaging in those threads addressing them. Simple as that. ;)
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 09:55pm PT
If only YOU wouldn't write in such convolutions, fragments, half-truths and/or hyperbole maybe others could understand more than a third of what you post. And then, apart from the crazy-ass assumptions you seem to make as well (either about the subject at hand or other posters), maybe a few would be interested enough to reply. But given your history of off the wall name-calling, bs, smartass-iness, etc, I'm likely not going to be one of them. Sorry.

Talk to The Chief.
WBraun

climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:07pm PT
Jim is right

All the criminals found their way into power and are running the world.

USA is run by criminals.

The criminals redressed all the laws to make it look like they are laws.

Instead they are designed to make everyone into their sheep ......
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:22pm PT
I'm not interested in your opinion, Jim. On anything.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:26pm PT
I'm bored 3 words into anything you post.
Literally, snoozing.
Liberal..I think not.
For the record, Jimbo, I think you suck, too.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:29pm PT
jim's posts (sans recent titty tat) are concise, cogent, and circumspect here. They also have yet to be rebutted.

It's helpful to remember that violence and bigotry must be instantiated within an individual. Those who engage in do so for a whole variety of reasons; status , revenge , greed, loyalty. Broad brushing with 'religion' as one's silver bullet provides a nonsensical 'scientific' root cause analysis that doesn't at all inform any viable analysis of options or their desired outcome. Inconveniently, outrage is not a strategy.

So far Ive seen no specific action plans suggested amidst all this bluster. Iraq is now effectively partitioned along sectarian lines. The Sunni region is largely contained by more powerful military forces. Perhaps this is the one path to achieving a durable stability in the near term.

'punishing' the beheaders is a different objective entirely. A more surgical approach to that, if that's even possible, seems more apropos there. Perhaps the more dangerous ISIS leadership could also be targeted... IF their successors arent even worse. Executing such action isnt child's play, however.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:36pm PT
"No specific action plan"...??
Where would this specific action plan be discussed? On TV? Facebook?
Maybe it is being discussed by military officials with years of experience in foreign affairs and warfare. Elected officials (elected by us) looking at intelligence we no nothing of.

ISIS will be dealt with. They are not surging across the border.
Reasonable people will make the decisions. Luckily, climbers won't be consulted.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:40pm PT
Reasonable people will make the decisions.

Supposedly 'reasonable people' have been making decisions about the Middle East
for a hundred years. The results have been rather underwhelming.
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Sep 6, 2014 - 10:50pm PT
The ISIS guys say they're on a holy war, and I'll take them at their word.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 11:05pm PT
While ya'all discuss history the president has to actually DO something. Like garner support from other countries so the US doesn't have to act alone.

The discussing is the easy part. The doing something, that's trickier.

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 6, 2014 - 11:11pm PT
Oh man, you're going all far left conspiracy nonsense on me now.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Petroleum. Oh man.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 6, 2014 - 11:13pm PT
JB,
That was more said than enough

a Holy war is just that, a holy war. With today's internet connectivity, it's gotten way easier to decipher the teams.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 6, 2014 - 11:33pm PT
A prediction, a question, and advice.

Yuri Orlov: You know who's going to inherit the Earth? Arms dealers. Because
everyone else is too busy killing each other. That's the secret to
survival. Never go to war. Especially with yourself

Yuri Orlov: There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation.
That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question
is: How do we arm the other 11?


Yuri Orlov: The first and most important rule of gun-running is: Never get
shot with your own merchandise.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 6, 2014 - 11:49pm PT

dick a tug.

you know, as long as it feels good! with one's own sacrificial of life to get 72 virgins on the other side and all..
Degaine

climber
Sep 7, 2014 - 07:14am PT
Jim Brennan wrote:
The only time you have a true holy war BLUEBLOCR is when you give your dick a tug.


Not if he's only lookin' at a lamp!
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2428481&msg=2432181#msg2432181
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 7, 2014 - 07:48am PT
The president’s plans for a major address came just days after he returned from a NATO summit meeting in Wales, where he and top members of his administration worked on the sidelines to rally international support for a coalition to confront ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Let the experts deal with this, climbers.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 7, 2014 - 08:21am PT
Supposedly 'reasonable people' have been making decisions about the Middle East for a hundred years. The results have been rather underwhelming.

No doubt about it. ISIS, is a product of years of decisions with long run impact, made using short range considerations.

Consider the way the West dealt with the ME and Africa in both the world wars, for example. Tribal considerations, didn't get much input.

The map of the Middle East is being redrawn by them. It's ugly but their reality is ugly. Grossly overpopulated, for one thing.

Will be interesting to see the affect of daily public executions on the quality of life in Raqqa,the current ISIS headquarters.

Sit back and enjoy the ride.

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 7, 2014 - 08:53am PT
Republican neocons who plunged us into the Iraq War bear the burden of the blame.
Now they want back in power.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 7, 2014 - 09:16am PT
60-70 years? This has been brewing since the 'Prophet' Mohammed died and won't end until
all those phukheads kill each other off.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 7, 2014 - 09:29am PT
Maybe Saddam Hussein should have been left in power...? We can always go looking for those WMD again...
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 7, 2014 - 09:47am PT
Feckless geopolitics....a yoke no president has chosen to throw.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 7, 2014 - 11:40am PT
Rottingjohnny, which WMD's? The Weapons of Media Distortion?
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 7, 2014 - 12:28pm PT
Don't want to think how depressing all these youtubes
are posted by people shooting at each other in Syria and Iraq.
Its crazy.

Go-Pro on a tank vid or "RPG vs Syrian Army tank"
cooks off and then always the happy exclamations
of 'god is great!.

And everywhere buildings turned to rubble.
War is about destroying your enemies stuff.

And whatever you do don't watch this. Sorry I did.

[Click to View YouTube Video]



rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 7, 2014 - 02:44pm PT
Reilly...May the Jihad reach your Monrovia and may you be slain by a guerilla slut...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 7, 2014 - 04:10pm PT
What are you NeverDoos going to do about that?

Did you ever do ANYTHING, war-hero?

I already know your response is to NEVER intervene, an that is f*#king weak.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 7, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
Relax saber rattlers's, the Man Who Got Osama Bin Laden and Sadaam Hussein will handle this. Go about your business.

“I’m preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, Mr. Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“What I want people to understand,” he said, “is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum” of the militants. “We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities; we’re going to shrink the territory that they control; and, ultimately, we’re going to defeat them,” he added.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 7, 2014 - 05:41pm PT
I JUST READ PAT DOLLARD AND NOW I AM RAGING FOR WAR!!!!!!!11


I'm a man of my own convictions. My association to Pat is amicable. We agree on lots of sh#t, but he doesn't speak for me, and my opinions on his site are my my own. Just like here.

In fact, he is much like Chris Mac. He provides a forum to vent or share stuff. It is just a different kind of forum. And the posters are more carefully screened.

It is definitely biased. And very conservative.

EDIT: Oh, most Dollard peeps say bomb ISIS, not Russia. FYI>....
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 7, 2014 - 06:02pm PT
Fly, my pre-midterm monkeys, fly!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 7, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
Bomb the refineries (then get the reconstruction contracts)!!!!
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 7, 2014 - 07:36pm PT
Two posts in a row. I thought you didn't care per a previous post, so wtf? But I see the sarcasm.

Apparently it's only Christian retro (cf: Islamic retro) that obstructs gays and womens rights you care about. Well at least that's better than nothing.

Christian retro. Islamic retro. I see them BOTH as obstacles to secular progressive civilization. From what you know of science and history it seems to me you should too; and not be so eager to attack general Abrahamic criticism. Esp insofar as you "don't care." Just posting out loud here. ;)


Oh, and ps, jb's posts are anything but clear and concise.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 7, 2014 - 07:43pm PT
i care about basic rights being 'obstructed ', regardless of the perceived motivation.

just participated in a heated policy/action debate (with real, live people who can actually do something about it) about female only hours at public pools (a rapidly growing trend here in WA). This is primarily motivated by various religions who seek to segregate men and women during certain activities. Guess which side I took?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 7, 2014 - 07:57pm PT
Guess which side I took?

I don't care. A guy (a Christian, btw, being forced to convert to Islam first as prelude) getting his head cut off in less than a minute under chants of 'God is Great' - yes as "witnessed" on YouTube - concerns me more. And no, this doesn't mean 'Bomb them all!' as you cynics of getting involved/ getting informed have grown fond of proclaiming in your silly/pathetic sarcasm and caricature.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 7, 2014 - 08:35pm PT
Hold on there a minute. Lets not be to hasty stopping
the destruction. These nuts seem intent on reducing their
towns to rubble and then fighting over the piles of
shattered concrete.

Contain and degrade where needed but don't stand in the way of crazy.


rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 7, 2014 - 08:43pm PT
America's equivalent of the Tea Baggers...
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 7, 2014 - 09:03pm PT
BTW I would blame Obama more than Bush for the current conflagration there. His initial arming and support of the anti-Assad rebel forces ( the original ISIS) while simultaneously accelerating the withdrawal from Iraq--- all led to a power vacuum which ISIS rushed into. Thoroughly incompetent and egregiously stupid ---with both Kerry and Clinton deserving additional blame for their monumental brain-deadness. All of them are really bad jokes on the international scene----even more than Bush was, as hard as that is to believe.

Obama isn't a member of the Carlisle group, which has a Saudi princes and Bin Laden family ties, and he hasn't taken a Million bucks from both the a Carlisle group and prince Bandar personally for his "presidential library" which hasn't been built.

Bin Laden Family Is Tied To U.S. Group

By Wall Street Journal staff reporters Daniel Golden and James Bandler in Boston, and Marcus Walker in Hamburg, Germany

09/27/2001
The Wall Street Journal
Page A3
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

If the U.S. boosts defense spending in its quest to stop Osama bin Laden 's alleged terrorist activities, there may be one unexpected beneficiary: Mr. bin Laden 's family.

Among its far-flung business interests, the well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan -- which says it is estranged from Osama -- is an investor in a fund established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant bank specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies.

Through this investment and its ties to Saudi royalty, the bin Laden family has become acquainted with some of the biggest names in the Republican Party. In recent years, former President Bush , ex-Secretary of State James Baker and ex-Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Bush makes speeches on behalf of Carlyle Group and is senior adviser to its Asian Partners fund, while Mr. Baker is its senior counselor. Mr. Carlucci is the group's chairman.

Osama is one of more than 50 children of Mohammed bin Laden , who built the family's $5 billion business, Saudi Binladin Group, largely with construction contracts from the Saudi government. Osama worked briefly in the business and is believed to have inherited as much as $50 million from his father in cash and stock, although he doesn't have access to the shares, a family spokesman says. Because his Saudi citizenship was revoked in 1994, Mr. bin Laden is ineligible to own assets in the kingdom, the spokesman added.

The bin Laden family has long disavowed Osama, and has cooperated fully with several federal investigations into his activities. The family business, headed by Osama's half-brother Bakr, epitomizes the U.S.-Saudi alliance that the suspected terrorist often rails against. After the 1996 truck bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, Saudi Binladin Group built military barracks and airfields for U.S. troops.

But the Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued subpoenas to banks used by the bin Laden family seeking records of family dealings, a person familiar with the matter said. This person said the subpoenas weren't an indication the FBI had found any suspicious behavior by the family. A family spokesman said he had no knowledge of the subpoenas but that the family welcomes them and has nothing to hide.

People familiar with the family's finances say the bin Ladens do much of their banking with National Commercial Bank in Saudi Arabia and with the London branch of Deutsche Bank AG. They also use Citigroup Inc. and ABN Amro, the people said.

"If there were ever any company closely connected to the U.S. and its presence in Saudi Arabia, it's the Saudi Binladin Group," says Charles Freeman, president of the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington nonprofit concern that receives tens of thousands of dollars a year from the bin Laden family. "They're the establishment that Osama's trying to overthrow."

Mr. Freeman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, says he has spoken to two of Osama's brothers since hijacked airplanes rammed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11. They told him, he says, that the FBI has been "remarkably sensitive, tactful and protective" of the family during the current crisis, recognizing its longstanding friendship with the U.S.

A Carlyle executive said the bin Laden family committed $2 million through a London investment arm in 1995 in Carlyle Partners II Fund, which raised $1.3 billion overall. The fund has purchased several aerospace companies among 29 deals. So far, the family has received $1.3 million back in completed investments and should ultimately realize a 40% annualized rate of return, the Carlyle executive said.

But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden family says the family's overall investment with Carlyle is considerably larger. He called the $2 million merely an initial contribution. "It's like plowing a field," this person said. "You seed it once. You plow it, and then you reseed it again."

The Carlyle executive added that he would think twice before accepting any future investments by the bin Ladens. "The situation's changed now," he said. "I don't want to spend my life talking to reporters."

A U.S. inquiry into bin Laden family business dealings could brush against some big names associated with the U.S. government. Former President Bush said through his chief of staff, Jean Becker, that he recalled only one meeting with the bin Laden family, which took place in November 1998. Ms. Becker confirmed that there was a second meeting in January 2000, after being read the ex-president's subsequent thank-you note. "President Bush does not have a relationship with the bin Laden family," says Ms. Becker. "He's met them twice."

Mr. Baker visited the bin Laden family in both 1998 and 1999, according to people close to the family. In the second trip, he traveled on a family plane. Mr. Baker declined comment, as did Mr. Carlucci, a past chairman of Nortel Networks Corp., which has partnered with Saudi Binladin Group on telecommunications ventures.

Former President Carter met with 10 of Osama's brothers early in 2000 on a fund-raising trip for the Carter Center in Atlanta. According to John Hardman, executive director of the center, the brothers told Mr. Carter that Osama was completely removed from the family. After Mr. Carter and his wife followed up with breakfast with Bakr bin Laden in New York in September 2000, the bin Laden family gave $200,000 to the center. "We don't have any reason to think there's a connection" between Osama and the rest of the family, Mr. Hardman says.

During the past several years, the family's close ties to the Saudi royal family prompted executives and staff from closely held New York publisher Forbes Inc. to make two trips to the family headquarters, according to Forbes Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a former U.S. secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. "We would call on them to get their view of the country and what would be of interest to investors."

Mr. Weinberger said no trips to Saudi Arabia were planned. "If we went," he said, "we may or may not call upon them. I don't think the sins of the son should be visited on the father or the brother and the cousins and the aunts."

There is no indication President George W. Bush has met any of the bin Ladens, but he was indirectly linked to one of them two decades ago. His longtime friend James W. Bath, who met Mr. Bush when they were both pilots in the Air National Guard, acted as a Texas business representative for Osama's older brother, Salem bin Laden , from 1976 to 1988, when Salem died in a plane crash. Mr. Bath brought real-estate acquisitions and other deals to Salem bin Laden , an ebullient man who headed the family construction business. Mr. Bath generally received a 5% interest as his fee, and was sometimes listed as a trustee in related corporate documents. Mr. Bath acknowledged that during the same period he invested $50,000 in two funds controlled by Mr. Bush but said that stake was unrelated to his dealings with Mr. bin Laden .

Among the properties that Salem bin Laden bought on Mr. Bath's recommendation was the Houston Gulf Airport, a lightly used airfield in League City, Texas, 25 miles east of Houston. But Mr. bin Laden 's hope that it would develop a major overflow airport for Houston never materialized, in part due to concern over wetlands. Ever since his death, his estate has sought to sell the airfield -- without success. Today, it is still on the market.

(See related letter: "Letters to the Editor: All in the Family" -- WSJ October 2, 2001)

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The scion of the Bin Laden family was prince Saud's doctor, and the bin Laden family is the largest construction operation in the Middle East. They often use Haliburton in their dealings.

And there is pretty good evidence that the family funneled money to Osama right up until he was killed.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 7, 2014 - 09:12pm PT
I give up. We're f*#ked!!!

I'm locked/loaded, f*#k y'all. I'm tired of this bullsh#t. Keep on keeping on with your gadgets. Don't look ahead.

People are too stupid to see what's in front of them. Sad....
Degaine

climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 12:30am PT
Bluering wrote:
Did you ever do ANYTHING, war-hero?

I already know your response is to NEVER intervene, an that is f*#king weak.


We've already proven time again that you're just a bunch of angry posts on the Internet, and that when it comes to reality, most of us have done far more than you for the troops and for this country.

You have no skin in the game, full stop. While posting on the Internet is fun, most of us don't just sit around whining, we act.

And I don't care about your military contract, Halliburton has many of them. They doesn't mean they have skin in the game, nor does it make them especially patriotic. Corporate welfare queens? Perhaps.

Put your money where your mouth is and enlist.

Or even easier ('cause I know you always like to take the easy way out) just tone down the rhetoric a little and stop being a motherf*#king prick and demonizing everyone who doesn't 100% agree with you.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 8, 2014 - 08:21am PT
Obama has a plan coming this Wednesday meanwhile ISIS is killing innocent people.

Reagan would have already!!!!
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 8, 2014 - 08:53am PT
Reagan would have already!!!!


Yup. He would've been stampeded into bombing Assad over the poison gas usage and ISIS would be neatly entrenched over all of Syria now.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 08:54am PT
Nancy Reagan? Certainly not her husband. This is a little more complicated than Grenada.
WBraun

climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 09:06am PT
On July 3rd, 1979, the CIA gave birth to Islamic Fundamentalism when President Carter signed a directive for United States Intelligence
to provide radical Islamic thinking and arms to Afghan fighters, before the Soviet Union invaded.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 8, 2014 - 09:11am PT


Reagan would have already!!!!


That plan would no doubt have involved selling Tow missiles to Iran, having Oliver North run a drug running business with CIA assets, and shooting down Iranian jumbo jets with 290 passengers in international air space.

And he would ( did) have his Vice President Bush to use his oil connection and arrange for the Saudis to finance a bunch of guys called the mujahedin in Afganistan, while the USA smuggled in Handheld SAM missiles so they could fight the Russians.

The Saudis got the second most powerful family in Saudi Arabia to send one of their sons to help with the effort. His name was Ossama, and the family was the Bin Ladens, who were also the earliest investors in George Bush jr's oil enterprise, Arbusto oil. (Arbusto is bush, in Spanish)

That worked out really well.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 8, 2014 - 10:09am PT
Bluering does illustrate that an overly strenuous pursuit of respect often goes unrequited.
WBraun

climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 10:36am PT
Smoking Duck -- "The art of War"

Wars are ultimately fought in the stream of consciousness which control the external material world.

Those who say only the limbs of the material body are doing the work are in very poor fund of knowledge ......
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 8, 2014 - 11:25am PT
Yup. He would've been stampeded into bombing Assad over the poison gas usage and ISIS would be neatly entrenched over all of Syria now.

u must be some kinda expert on rag headed idiots!

we need a president to lie to these people.. just like the star wars..

i'm all about air support..
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 8, 2014 - 01:36pm PT
To me, the best explanation of how we ended up with the modern middle east remains Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace.

As for differences in presidential responses, I doubt that there would be any difference in substance, because from the mid-1970's forward, US intelligence in the near east was and remains vitually non-existent. At least give credit for Obama's avoiding early intervention in Syria in a way that would have strengthed ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State/Nom De Guerre Du Jour. When many were calling for intervention, we didn't know who the good guys and bad guys were, and still don't entirely.

I doubt ISIS judges likely American actions solely by what Obama says. I think they believe that we're so tired of war we'll just sit on the sidelines like we did after World War I and let them do their thing -- and they might be right. As I've maintained throughout this thread, ISIS differs from ordinary terrorism, because it is a de facto state, and our failure to respond with forceful destruction now will cause unimaginable trouble in the future. I'm not changing position, but I don't think it's fair to blame Obama for being clueless initially. He had a lot of company and help from both parties.

John

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
The Arab states need to step up to the plate and clean their own gawdamn houses. Number one on the list is my home for 4 years, Saudi Arabia.

Unfortunately, they are all smiling and shaking hands, all the while holding a dagger behind their backs in the other hand.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 8, 2014 - 01:42pm PT
My favorite T. E. Lawrence alleged "quote" was on the side of a Pasadena restaurant in the early 1980's: "'My people are the people of the dessert' said T. E. lawrence, lifting his fork."

John
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 01:43pm PT
I don't think it's fair to blame Obama

JE, relax, nobody worth their salt is blaming Obama.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 8, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
This is delicious....I do love the monday morning quarterbacking from the "chicken hawk" crowd. There must be a positive coorelation between the profundity of one's military strategizing and the lack of one's personal military experience.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
Re: The Donini question: None of your business.

Edit:
Long before we, the US ever thought about heading on over there.

That's why it's kind of stupid to try and lay blame on a particular administration. We have however, been climbing in and out of bed with many of them for decades. No wonder it's a f*#ked up mess.

Carry on with your expertise though.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 8, 2014 - 02:25pm PT
We need to track down that English speakin pile of crap who's cutting those heads off and cut his mothers head off on video and broadcast it on you tube.

nice!


survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 02:52pm PT
Hey The Chief, did you ever put a bullet directly in the top of someone's head like these ISIS dudes?

Didn't think so.

Therefore your point of view is invalid. HA!!
7SacredPools

Trad climber
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Sep 8, 2014 - 02:54pm PT
Let me guess, WTF considers himself a Christian.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 03:01pm PT
Oh my Survival..... I haven't?

No, you haven't.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 03:15pm PT
On numerous occasions in support of several ops while flying CSAR crew with three different USN entities.

So, no, the answer is he hasn't.

Therefore his point of view is invalid, HAA!!!!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 03:30pm PT
Sorry bro, but your 214 doesn't say that you capped people directly in the head. So bring it on.

Truth is you have no idea what I did or didn't do in country, so why don't you just shut your c*#k holster for once in your life?
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 8, 2014 - 03:44pm PT
The so-called Islamic State, better known as ISIS, is not just a collection of barbaric psychopaths willing to engage in the most brutal and sordid forms of violence without any hesitation born of normal human morality. They are also the most irreparably stupid jihadists ever to slaughter their way onto the international stage.

And therein lie not only the seeds of their ultimate destruction, but the reason America should not rush in to take on these thugs. It needs to wait and see how successful ISIS’s many other enemies are in attacking it.

http://www.newsweek.com/isiss-enemy-list-10-reasons-islamic-state-doomed-268953

Exactly as I have been saying. We jump in and we get f*#ked again. How stupid can we be?
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 04:00pm PT
Although I agree to a point, chickenhawk arguments are nothing more than ad hominems and don't address the point made.
Do you really have to have done something to have a valid opinion on it?

Any decision on the Middle East is rife with unintended consequences.
You want to totally disengage from the ME, but think the ensuing power vacuum won't create more problems?
You want to totally engage in the ME, but think the quagmire won't cost us big time for generations?
Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

I would advocate an isolationist policy, but then this is the 21st century. Is it reality based?
Obama has some tough decisions to make. I don't envy him.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 8, 2014 - 04:12pm PT

So Iran arrests some Pakistanis and Afghanis, crossing Iran to join ISIS. This should be interesting. Will we laugh when they hang?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29116764

Iran says it has arrested Afghan and Pakistani citizens who were trying to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani said the foreigners planned to cross Iran - but did not specify how many had been arrested, or where.
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 04:28pm PT
No matter who is the president, making the right decision ain't gonna be easy.
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 04:35pm PT
WBraun

climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
glanton is canknutcase's wife.

They're gay.

They've been butt hurt for years (literally) and finally were able to get married.

So that's why they're so butt hurt and need to be such stoopid anonymous nutcases .....
WBraun

climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 05:05pm PT
hahaha, .... the dipshit is hooked on the line ......
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 8, 2014 - 05:50pm PT
Is the Retard Apocalypse finally upon us?

Dave Kos, open up the bunker and let me in!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 8, 2014 - 05:53pm PT
Headshots have no effect, here.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 8, 2014 - 06:11pm PT
The sky is falling!!!!
Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Sep 8, 2014 - 07:18pm PT
The sky is falling!!!!

This thread is failing!!

Might be time to initiate the nuclear option if the little boys can't play nice...
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Sep 8, 2014 - 07:23pm PT
Duck and cover boys!!

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 8, 2014 - 07:32pm PT
The ISIS thread has turned into a coming out of the closet fest for males that suffer from dickatosis...It's really magical when people connect...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 8, 2014 - 07:44pm PT
Duly noted....
ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Sep 8, 2014 - 09:45pm PT
just curious -- what do you do after you behead someone? do you go to the local Applebees for beers? do you take the head home to put on the mantel? do you high-five? "Nice beheading, man! You be-headed the fukk out of that guy!!"

I say: rain in an ungodly fire on these as#@&%es.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 8, 2014 - 09:56pm PT
just curious -- what do you do after you behead someone? do you go to the local Applebees for beers? do you take the head home to put on the mantel? do you high-five? "Nice beheading, man! You be-headed the fukk out of that guy!!"

I think you go to yer local mosque and brey to Allan.

I say: rain in an ungodly fire on these as#@&%es.


Let it rain...
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 10:26pm PT
Less than 48 hours ahead of a planned address to the nation on how the U.S. plans to combat Islamic State terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria, President Obama dined at the White House Monday with a slate of foreign policy experts.

Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry were joined by some of Washington’s most established foreign policy hands, including Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who held the same position during the Carter administration.
Former Obama national security adviser Tom Donilon was also at the dinner, as was former Undersecretary for Defense Policy Michele Flournoy, Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass, and Stephen Hadley, who was national security adviser under George W. Bush. Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-Mich.), former acting CIA director Michael Morell, and Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott rounded out the group of invited guests.
“The President looks forward to engaging with this group and hearing their views on a range of national security and foreign policy issues,” a White House official said.

The meeting comes as the president is set to address the nation Wednesday and expected to detail his strategy for confronting the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

"Over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of (ISIS)," the president said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press. "We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We're going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately we're going to defeat them."

On Tuesday, the president will meet with congressional leaders at the White House to discuss that strategy.

Obama said he wants the American people to understand "we have the capacity” to deal with ISIS but that “this is a serious threat.”

What, no foreign policy geniuses from ST at these dinners or meetings? Oh man, we're doomed.
ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Sep 8, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
no foreign policy geniuses

hey, I'm staring at my phone as hard as I can, wishing the POTUS would call...


I know! I'm surprised as you.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 8, 2014 - 11:01pm PT

"CBS White House reporter Mark Knoller is the unofficial but widely trusted chronicler of data on presidential travels and other day-to-day White House goings-on, so we turned to his calculations.

On Aug. 8, 2014, Knoller tweeted that Obama had taken 19 vacations totaling 125 days so far while in office. Those numbers have risen a bit due to the Martha’s Vineyard vacation, but that’s still many fewer than George W. Bush’s 65 combined trips to his Texas ranch and his parents’ home in Kennebunkport, Maine, which totaled 407 days at the same point in his presidency.

Not included in this data are trips to the Camp David presidential retreat in western Maryland, which Knoller doesn’t count as "vacation." Knoller told Yahoo! News that, through Aug. 12, 2014, Obama had made 33 visits to Camp David for all or part of 84 days, while Bush had been there 108 times for all or part of 341 days."
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 8, 2014 - 11:15pm PT
The Chief spends countless hours pulling the wings off flies and lovingly raising them in a shoebox, while Crankster can bury himself in a proctology text for days on end, yet neither's ability to post is hampered.

You can either make effective foreign policy or you can't - regardless of your T off time.

The Persh Merga can Iraqi Army can squeeze ISIS from N and S, but somebody needs to squeeze from Syria, and it clearly isn't going to be us. Assad + Iran? Opposition + Saudis? Both?

Safe to say this isn't a good math problem for the GW type.

Smart, level-headed, strategically-minded golfers only.

Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Sep 9, 2014 - 03:51am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

coming soon to a thread near you...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 9, 2014 - 06:34am PT
Fattrad is probably in on the talks and caddying for the President providing tool back up...Back to Crisis in the ME...?
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:03am PT
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:04am PT
I'm giving Obama 'a thumbs up' for his management of this so far. There is most likely much more going on behind the scenes that you ST'ers are not privy too. I know...that probably blows your all-knowing minds. Ultimately this is an Arab problem and needs an Arab solution. We don't need to spend any more than the $7.5 million/day we are dropping on ISIS Tundra's.


Yup + 1

I was shocked when he got pushed into the "Red Line" comment while on a trip to Israel. But he backed offa that and it was a gutsy thing to do. A very good thing now. Keeping our options open and not allying with anyone, is prolly the best policy.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 9, 2014 - 09:37am PT
So, if radical islamists in Nevada, went to the local gun store to purchase arms, and it turned out that they were all serviced by one clerk, a certain RA, how many bombs should be rained down upon his home?
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 9, 2014 - 09:49am PT
Yet not one comment?


So Ron, what's your suggestion for the problem you so magnificently pointed out?

















Edit:
bush stopped going on vacation because troops had to go to work in Iraq.

Step away from the meth pipe bro.....
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 9, 2014 - 11:38am PT
Your Post Crankster states absolutely NOTHING regarding Obama's golfing and persistent bsing during the past three weeks. Nothing.

crankster photo shop is a fun tool! nice try..
bush stopped going on vacation because troops had to go to work in Iraq.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
Nobody but the deluded, Fox News crazies care anything about the president golfing.
I think he got a birdie the day before Osama Bin Laden was killed. Good for him.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 12:53pm PT
It's hard to tease out just how 'opposing sides' here differ in their desired course of action.

Nobody seems game for American ground troops. Been there, done that.

Everybody agrees that a local coalition is required to at least contain ISIS. Given that Iran supports Assad and Saudi A. supports the 'moderate' Syrian opposition, and that the Syrian/Iraq border no longer exists as such - this won't be simple.

Despite the difficulties, Obama is attempting to build a regional coalition. Any specific points of disagreement there?

Everybody also seems to be ignoring the fact that the Syrian civil war atrocities to date have been far more horrific than ISIS. So what's the greatest threat to regional stability/human rights in the region again?

Some here are calling for stepping up American air support. Whether or not that's a good idea - Obama is doing that. Any specific point of disagreement there?
WBraun

climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 01:02pm PT
So what's the greatest threat to regional stability/human rights in the region again?

Stupid Americans started this sh!t all along with their destabilization agenda of the entire mideast.

Overthrowing govts and installing western brainwashed puppets in their place.

Same thing the US did in Ukraine just recently headed by that stupid cnt Victoria Nuland who represents Obama's foreign policy there.

ISIS will come to the US and install their own stupid puppet.

Watch all you guys freak out.

Look at you already freaking out.

Still you don't mind US terrorizing the entire planet so you can keep enjoying your high standard of living at the expense of the rest of the world.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
We're freaking out?

Yeah, it's all very stupid, as uzhe, and Bush sucked, no argument there, but fast forward to today (no time machines ready for prime time that I know of).

No don't get me wrong, US isolationism may well be the best course of action, here. But doing something to reduce violence in the region, particularly in Syria, seems to be a noble cause to me for anyone willing to take it on. Call me a bleeding heart. That's got to be primarily, if not entirely, a local effort IMO, and there are a lot of long term potential benefits to such an approach - most notably bringing Iran back into the world community and easing tensions between it and Israel.

I wasn't aware that installing puppet regimes was within Nuland's pay grade. Dayum. That's some powerful chick.


Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 01:35pm PT
The Wingless Flies in a Shoebox Channel.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 9, 2014 - 01:39pm PT
So did any of you read my post from yesterday about the MA mosque that has fostered at least 8 serious ISIS types, INCLUDING the boston bombers- lil flashbang, his brother speed bump and lil sisBoom?


I didn't read it either, but I've been following the situation. There are hives of terrorists here in the US.
So, we havta wait until they actually blow something up and then arrest them one by one? Why isn't there mechanism in place we can deport the whole lot pre-emptively?

Two blocks from here, is a gummint fortress. They feel nice and safe behind their walls of security - which we paid for - why they spout kumbaya and delusions of democracy for the Middle East.

The hypocrisy level is disgusting but nothing new from Gummint Libtards. Like a trip through "It's a Small World" at Disney.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 9, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
ISIS will come to the US and install their own stupid puppet.

America will be over once they kidnap grandmother then behead her in Syria!
splitter

Trad climber
SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
Sep 9, 2014 - 02:54pm PT
donini - Isis....oh, I thought this was about Tackle's route on Denali.
Same here...sigh.

btw....it (Isis) is the Tackle/Stutzman route on Denali!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 03:04pm PT
You actually looked at my profile, Chief?

LOL.

Match.com, move over.
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 9, 2014 - 04:09pm PT
Ohhhh....Some 'mericans went into a violent ME WAR ZONE and got theatrically killed?

Tell me again why I should be surprised or outraged?

I'm more concerned about issues here.

The ME and Israel have always been a bloody mess.

AND

Oh, Israel and the Palestinians are killing each other again? Drumroll...

Tell me again why I should care? You could just rerun the news from the last time and nobody would probably be able to tell the difference between then and now. Meanwhile life HERE goes on with a laundry list of issues that neither party cares to actually address.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 05:44pm PT
Babbler's will babble.
Haters will hate.
None of it matters.
To the people in charge.
They wake up everyday like you.
With a lot more to do.
So go spout your nonsense .
And leave them alone.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
Jimbo,
You've got sanctimonious down pretty well yourself. Along with an elevated sense of self and a belief that the more words you use, the smarter you might sound. Ain't working. Your psychobabble works on the Mind thread, I suppose.

My point, which eluded you, is that we elect human beings to govern us and they are just that; human beings. The decisions they face are hard and serious beyond the grasp of the average citizen.

I'm not suggesting dissent is bad or even unhealthy.

You will have a bit of weight regarding the direction your life takes every 4 years when you vote"...
You are right here. Wrong, the rest.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 9, 2014 - 06:44pm PT
The curse of living in interesting times!

A Recent Muslim convert, a 25yr old man, possibly inspired by recent
footage of terrorists beheading American journalists in Syria,
just decapitated a London woman.

Scotland-Yard detectives insisted that strange men roaming Londoners back
gardens and cutting heads off 'Is Not Terrorism'. Sound reasonable?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11075380/Woman-beheaded-in-north-London-garden.html

3rd beheading this year.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/09/are-beheadings-terrorism-palmira-silva-was-third-woman-be-decapitated-london-year

Palmira Silva was the third woman to be decapitated in London this year
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:38pm PT
Shall we bomb London then boys?
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:40pm PT
Sounds a lot like our copycat mass shooting problem.

Solution?
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:43pm PT
Ban swords and machetes...
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:52pm PT
Ban hedges.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 9, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
Seriously, just ban cutting off heads. And why do I have to
solve all the difficult problems?
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 08:23pm PT
Just hold them off for 2 more years until Hillary takes over.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 9, 2014 - 09:55pm PT
We will build a coalition with our Muslim allies and defeat ISIS. It's perfectly normal to not be eager to head back into war in the Mideast after barely extricating ourselves from Iraq after more than 10 years.

That English-accent beheader dude isn't long for this world.

Nobody else would be, or is, doing a better job than Obama.

Not McCain, not Romney, not Trump, not Newt, Palin, Cain, nor Harper, Jim.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 9, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
bush stopped going on vacation because troops had to go to work in Iraq.


Shouldn't read this when I'm gulping a beer. Blew some out my nose from laughing.


[Click to View YouTube Video]
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 10, 2014 - 05:04am PT
The christian non-believers could wear kevlar turtle necks and ISIS would never figure out why their swords were not cutting because they were too busy shouting god is great..Or ISIS could get with the program and buy the ginsu knife set for only 29.95...
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 10, 2014 - 06:41am PT
Too funny, rj...Kevlar turtlenecks for everyone.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 10, 2014 - 08:14am PT
Bush: was there ever a less talented President? Unless you consider 'bluster' - he took gold there. Move over Teddy Roosevelt - oh wait, Roosevelt was really talented.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 10, 2014 - 08:27am PT
Just hold them off for 2 more years until Hillary takes over.

then we can kill ourselves just like Vince foster!

WBraun

climber
Sep 10, 2014 - 09:40am PT
Just hold them off for 2 more years until Hillary takes over.


Yes just give post dated check.

In two years you will get the same stupid rebranded tools ....
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 10, 2014 - 09:45am PT
In two years you will get the same stupid rebranded tools ....

Another piece of the problem. I knew the Obama Presidency was in trouble in the first 24 hours. There was no "rush hour" of State Dept lardasses hitting the pavement and they put him into "meetings" to tell him how it was gonna be. He shudda been telling them how it was gonna be and punctuating it with firings.

So we basically get, the same upside down foreign policy as the Bush years.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 10, 2014 - 09:49am PT
RJ, what are those of us who can't wear wool or Kevlar gonna do?
Are we gonna be the sacrificial lambs?
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 10, 2014 - 11:14am PT
In two years you will get the same stupid rebranded tools ....

yep!

it's all about watering down the Obama care!
it's all about middle east!

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 10, 2014 - 06:18pm PT
A rallying cry, perfect in tone.

Problem: our "partners on the ground" ain't worth much. Not hard to imagine the weapons we give them falling into the hands of ISIS (see Iraq).

Tough stuff. But I agree, no US troops.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 10, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
Crankster...Keep heckling Werner...You bring the best out in him in an Andrew Dice Clay way...
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:00pm PT
HISTORICAL LANDMARK SPEECH BY OBAMA!


IS We're com'in to get ya!!!!!!!


Well, not We. This is a different kind of war. We're only sending 450 troops, so don't worry moms. Instead we're sending 450,00 drones. Fight with a sword die by a sword. We're gonna spank'em with science!GOOOOO SCIENCE!


God Bless our Troops and our Alliances', God Bless America!
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:03pm PT
Jim, head to the Mind thread. You're not making sense. I'll eat some mushrooms and meet you there.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:10pm PT
Hmmm, maybe send me some of your shrooms. Those Canadian one's seem potent.

PS: Who's Steve?
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:26pm PT
WHO HAS W.M.D!
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:31pm PT
This means splosions. lots and lots of splosions...maybe lasers, too. Godzilla might get in on the action as well.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:42pm PT
ISIS actively looking for ways to exploit our southern border.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-confirms-isil-planning-infiltration-of-u-s-southern-border/

No visa/passport necessary....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
lots and lots of splosions.

Amen.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
This is the next ISIS recruiting video:


[Click to View YouTube Video]
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 10, 2014 - 07:57pm PT
ISIL sneaking into the US...? Good...! The last beaner i picked up at Home Depot took a dump on the clients lawn and wiped his ass with a weiny roller...
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Sep 10, 2014 - 08:05pm PT
SIL sneaking into the US.

ah yes Johnny!

ISIS will get in row boats and evade our Navy as they row across the Atlantic to reach Mexico

and ISIS will use Anchor Babies born to Mexican mothers who sneak across our southern border

wait 20 years until they are grown and trained in terrorism and then off to Mammoth Lakes they go...

be afraid, be very afraid
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Sep 10, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
I didn't believe your link from over a week ago about the "imminent" threat on our border. Even back then that threat had been reported on before, and still nothing.


Sept 2, Bluering's link in this thread regarding our southern border.

Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning Update


Whatever it takes to scare people into war.
Got to peddle that war machine, use it or lose it.

Tired of this, "sky is falling".
Try screaming "wolf" for a change.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 09:42am PT
As for the southern border, many of the IS-holes probably already have valid passports. They simply fly into Central/South America and over-pay smugglers (coyotes) to ensure they get first-class passage to the southern border.

These guys have LOTS of money.

Our southern border is globally known as being porous. It should be priority #1 to shut it down, as much as possible. It can be done if there is the will in Washington. And that's the problem.

They (Muslims, whether they're terrorists or not) have already been PROVEN to be crossing our southern border over the past few years. The Border Patrol is aware of this. OTM's (other than Mexicans) refer to Chinese, Africans, Persians, Arabs crossing the border. Some of them are considered 'Special Interest' OTM's. These are the ones that the BP has reason to suspect are terrorists.

As for Obama's arming of the "moderate" Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. Bad idea, IMO. Shouldn't we be siding with Assad?

Think about it. Assad has a very capable army, "ground troops". ISIS is fighting Assad too, as are the "moderate rebels". We should be siding with Assad to quell the situation in the area.

It may be the ultimate brilliant diplomatic play. We tell Assad we'll help him if he helps us, and we become much friendlier.

As we become friendlier, we push him to become more secular and a bit less iron-handed. This also pulls Assad from Russia towards the US interests.

It pulls Assad from Iran, towards the US.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:21am PT
To attempt to install OUR ideals into areas that have zero clue about democracies has proven to be major folly.

Truer words are rarely uttered, especially in PC circles that seem to revolve
at the highest kumbaya gubmint levels. Democracy in any meaningful sense
in the ME is a notion cut from whole cloth that will not see the light of
day for at least a generation, if that.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:31am PT
Yall need to understand Americanism is a religion. Americans proselytize this religion and its major tenets, democracy, capitalism and guns being the holy trinity.

DMT


Yeah, so? What's the problem?

You also left out the fact that Americans like peace and are usually a very peaceful people. That is, until someone breaks the common Western belief of societal decency.

We're a very tolerant culture overall. But some sh#t just will not stand...man.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:31am PT
The speech was pretty good, until the Prez mentioned Yemen and Somalia.




What we really need is a prime time speech, broadcast to the entire world, where the president FORCEFULLY calls on the entire Muslim world to decide who they're going to be in the future, and calls on the Muslim world to do their best to put their heads together and clean up their own shithouse, a LOT.

Calling Saudi Arabia, this means you.


Al Queda, Isis, Al Nusra, Al Shabab, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban etc etc.

Sweet Mother Nature, is there a more f*#ked up religion in the history of the Earth?


Edit: This is not to say that I am touting the greatness of Christianity or Judaism or the rest either.
Religion itself is at the heart of too many wars for thousands of years now.


[Click to View YouTube Video]
Listen to the song if you wanna know how I feel.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:44am PT
What we really need is a prime time speech, broadcast to the entire world, where the president FORCEFULLY calls on the entire Muslim world to decide who they're going to be in the future, and calls on the Muslim world to do their best to put their heads together and clean up their own shithouse, a LOT.

Calling Saudi Arabia, this means you.

Al Queda, Isis, Al Nusra, Al Shabab, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban etc etc.

Sweet Mother Nature, is there a more f*#ked up religion in the history of the Earth?

Common sense is a great thing, but most fear 'offending' certain people by speaking it. Well said, Survival!

Edit: This is not to say that I am touting the greatness of Christianity or Judaism or the rest either.
Religion itself is at the heart of too many wars for thousands of years now.

Let's agree to disagree here though. I'm not saying one religion is "superior" to the other, but religion usually guides people to do good, and be good. Usually. Even in Islam.

That's just what I've seen....
WBraun

climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:44am PT
Religion itself is at the heart of too many wars for thousands of years now.

No

Stupid people who use religion for war.

Religion of itself does not cause war.

Your understanding of religion is only on the sectarian platform which really isn't religion at all but in name only.

But go on remaining in poor fund of knowledge making simpleton sweeping statements.

I can do same as in,

Stupid Americans .....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:49am PT
Stupid people who use religion for war.

Which means waaaay too many religious people over the last few thousand years.

Clearly there aren't enough enlightened wise religious people like you Werner.

Another edit: Werner, what does your deep well of knowledge tell you about the state of the Muslim world at the moment?
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:55am PT
Not stupid people Werner... Manipulative socipathic people.

Religion is simply a tool used by them to build fences/walls, create conflict, and use that bloodshed as a means to a) profit directly from it b) expand territorial control c) Distract from other crimes being committed. d) All of the above.

Religion, race, hair-color. People are easy to divide and conquer if you are intrinsically evil.

There are billions of muslims living their lives today the same as us who wish no harm to anyone.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:55am PT
Dingus, you have a tendency to make sweeping statements sometimes, like myself.

What I meant is that Americans would be happy to give a finger to the world if nobody f*#ked with us, or our interests and buddies.

Once you cross that line most Americans are in favor of quashing the problem immediately. I know this. And this requires violence. And death.

We, as Americans, would rather not be f*#ked with. We'd rather go climbing.

Sometimes we have to pull a trigger though. And kill people.

I don't like it, but there are bad people in the world, evil, that needs to be knocked back or destroyed sometimes.

This will go on forever. Accept it. Try to learn from the past on how to deal with it.

Kumbaya.....
WBraun

climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:58am PT
Manipulative sociopath people who use religion as a front.

Yes and they are able to control stupid people (sheep) ....
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 10:58am PT
Blowhards in congress complain then run for cover. Thankfully, the president doesn't.

WBraun

climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 11:03am PT
Survival

Fear answered perfectly.

There are billions of Muslims living their lives today the same as us who wish no harm to anyone.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 11:04am PT
i think its an excellent foreign policy strategy to put the entire Muslim world on notice for the actions of a few thousand. That should smooth the coalition building process nicely. Should the SE asian Muslims be included though? Perhaps we should put Arabs on notice. Wait...and Persians. And Africans, but only some of them.

These things can get complicated for the Sin-free and Omnipotent,
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 11, 2014 - 11:11am PT
These things can get complicated for the Sin-free and Omnipotent.


Indeed. But it still seems high time that someone called this religion out on some of their own messes.

Saudi Arabia and Iran have as much to lose as we do. It's their back yard. Go pick up some dog turds.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 11:12am PT
The list of countries where 'Muslims' are waging jihad:

Indonesia
Thailand
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Iran
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Palestine
Egypt
Libya
Tunisia
Algeria
Mali
Niger
Sudan
Nigeria
Somalia
Kenya
Oman

I might have missed a couple?
We're gonna need a lot of drones, I hope Monrovia's AeroVironment can handle it.

So, Norwegians have oil. How come they're not pissed off at the rest of the world?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 11:17am PT
President Obama...

Now let’s make two things clear: ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim…. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way…. May God bless our troops, and may God bless the United States of America.

As an atheist, I cannot help wondering when this scrim of pretense and delusion will be finally burned away—either by the clear light of reason or by a surfeit of horror meted out to innocents by the parties of God. -Sam Harris

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armageddon

What a mess.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 12:09pm PT
Dingus,

Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich also lets us know that the inaction of the British, French and Americans allowed Hitler to unleash the calamity of Nazism on the rest of Europe. The impotence of the League of Nations did the same with Japanese aggression.

The only thing I know about the current situation is that war is the greatest evil humans can perpetrate on each other. Everyone I know who saw combat duty anywhere does not talk about it voluntarily. There's no glory -- just a whole lot of ghastliness.

Unfortunately, the reality of the evil of war gives us no guidance when others make war. The actions of ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State/Nom De Guerre Du Jour create a dilemma because inaction can cause more bloodshed than going to war against them. For that reason, I find an analysis that "those who support going to war should go themselves" both unsatisfying and incomplete.

Back to reality from theory. I thought the President's speech last night was one of his best. He couldn't help a reference to "Bush's wars" -- as if Congress did not authorize the action -- but that's really just a quibble. I found myself quite proud that he was my president last night, and that's no small feat, given my generally low opinion of his administration. This is a time when we can disagree about politics, but we need to support our Commander in Chief.

John
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 12:29pm PT
I'm not sure I agree with your point, DMT. I'm not wrapping myself in any flag but that of civilization, but I think someone needs to use armed force against ISIS/ISIL/ etc. That means that I, too, think someone needs to kill others on my behalf.

I find it particularly difficult dealing with those who "don't believe in war," but are alive solely because of the combat sacrifices of others. I have this particular personal issue because for twelve years, I was on the Board of Trustees, and for six of those on its Executive Commitee, of Fresno Pacific University. FPU is affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren, which has a long history of pacifism. While I support those who, for true reasons of conscience, take that position, I cannot do so myself because I owe my very existence to the victories of the United States in war.

Besides, I, for one, am grateful that the United States expended its blood and treasure to end slavery in North America, to defeat the Central Powers in World War I, to defeat the Axis in World War II, and to defeat involuntary Marxism during the Cold War. I would not exist if the Central Powers won the First World War. In that situation, what right have I to say we should not fight? Unfortunately, at my age, I'm not a candidate for fighting myself, so what right have I to say that we should?

Any stance I take makes me a hypcrite in someone's eyes. So be it. The world isn't perfect, and we can't wait for a perfect solution. In this instance, I think the cost of inaction far exceeds the cost of taking action now. For that reason, I support the President's actions. If that makes me a hypocritical war monger, so be it. I'd rather be that than a complicit appeaser who causes my children or grandchildren to face a much starker choice.

John
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 11, 2014 - 12:39pm PT
War is a business, a racket. Nothing more. Always ask yourself "who benefits"?

The real answer never lies in "religion" or "race" or the "Archduke Ferdinand" or some other bullsh!t. That's the marketing sold and pushed onto otherwise peaceful normal people to rally them under false pretenses to go out and commit murder for the sociopaths who desire more real estate/resources.

It takes vast amounts of money, large amounts of intelligence, experienced command, coordination, and control to do what "ISIS" has done so quickly. You don't have random "muslims" flocking in from all points of the world all of a sudden become a cohesive fighting force within months. That doesn't happen with humans. Pure fantasy. Yet that's the BS we're being sold. Don't fall for it.

Getting the Sunnis to fight the Shiites has been in the playbook of ME destablization for at least a generation.

The sociopaths in the US and Israel helped create and fund this monster. The US wants WOAR. Israel wants WOAR. Destablize the region, crush Assad, install a puppet, etc. As a bonus we get another US inspired scary beheading boogey-man to rally the sheep. How many other times have nations used proxy-armies? This isn't new.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 12:48pm PT
Indeed. But it still seems high time that someone called this religion out on some of their own messes.

Calling out an entire religion? What does that even mean? In what universe would that be a good idea? Is there a specific action we want specific nations to take? Will we punish those nations if they don't (and with what capability?), or reward them (with what reward?) if they do? Would such a 'calling out' produce any positive results - coming from a 50% Christian nation (a religion with its own rich 2000 year history of violence, oppression, ignorance, and corruption)? A nation that has invaded entire countries (not just parts of countries) in the region twice in the past 11 years? A nation that owns and supplies 40% of the world's weaponry? Is that the nation you're talking about? With what legitimacy would we be calling anyone out - for anything?

Look at America from outside its borders for a change - the view is far from pretty.

The phrase 'high time' sounds a lot like 'High Noon', or perhaps, just 'high'.

There's nothing like a beheading video to get a significant portion of the American population to buy into the whole Muslim Hate Meme (TM) in a hurry. ISIS uses religion for mass manipulation - well, so do we.

Saudi Arabia and Iran have as much to lose as we do. It's their back yard. Go pick up some dog turds.

Yes, and I believe that is exactly what the administration, who doesn't seem inclined to put American troops into the fray, is trying to persuade these nations to do. Both nations have acknowledged in no uncertain terms that they realize the urgency of the problem.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 11, 2014 - 12:53pm PT
LOL,

Getting the Sunnis to fight the Shiites has been in the playbook of ME destablization for at least a generation.

They've fighting each other since 632

Where's this pathological idea come from that "the west" is the source of all evil and no one could possibly be operating on their own agenda for their own reasons?
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:03pm PT
I can't help think that we wouldn't be in the ME if we hadn't listened to Fattrad over on his ME thread...? Un-banned the Evil One now ...! rj
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:06pm PT
Un-banned the Evil One now

;)

Hear, hear!

John

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:09pm PT
Both nations have acknowledged in no uncertain terms that they realize the urgency of the problem.



Mmmmkay.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:10pm PT
Here, Tvash, educate yourself...

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBqVWg9IQAo

This is no "Islam for Dummies" punk thug, instead it's a man who's given his entire life to Koranic theology as Truth and who uses it and nothing else as a basis for his model for how the world works.

.....


That ISIS could make political bedfellows of atheists (those who care) and fundamentalist Christians (those who care) is the deep awful irony here.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:24pm PT
Seriously I doubt tvash has even read the koran. But he's not alone. Umpteen million other Americans haven't either. Despite it being a weekend read at only a sixth grade level. How does this happen? Despite 10 years of the strongest opportunity to do so. It blows me away that so many can be so clueless as to what being a fundamentalist either in America or in the M.E. really means.

And no, once again let me affirm, being a fundamentalist in Islam is not the same thing as being a jihadi in Islam. Thank goodness, or we'd really be in trouble. Yesterday.

.....

Calling out an entire religion? What does that even mean? In what universe would that be a good idea? Is there a specific action we want specific nations to take? Will we punish those nations if they don't (and with what capability?), or reward them (with what reward?) if they do? Would such a 'calling out' produce any positive results

He's right here, of course. It's a good point. But it also simply sidesteps a whole number of issues that we as a people and as a nation need to be talking about.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:25pm PT
I cannot do so myself because I owe my very existence to the victories of the United States in war

?

You owe your very existence to your parents having sex. That's about all you can claim in any supportable manner there.

The morality of America's wars is not a road any true blue patriot really wants to go down if they are to maintain any sense of purity with regards to American military actions.

Consider the following wars: Mexican American, Civil, Indian (more of a genocide, really), Spanish American, WWI (why were we there, exactly?), Korean (no victory there), Vietnam (wholesale disaster), Central and South American involvement (eeewwww), Grenada (WTF?), Panama (WTF 2.0?), Iraq 2.0 (Never thought we'd trump Vietnam, but there you go...).

Generally, patriots refer to two wars: the Revolutionary and WWII, when they wax eloquent about the American victories and sacrifice they owe their present day freedoms to.

Even those wars, most particularly WWII, involved their fair share of atrocities inflicted by Americans.

In addition, what is so often ignored in such patriotic discourse is the vastly erosive effect war has had on the very freedoms - privacy, speech, association, that such patriots wax on about.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:35pm PT
My mother owes her life to the allied vicotry in WWI. Otherwise, she would have been slaughtered as an Armenian in the Ottoman Empire 25 years before she met my father. Last time I checked, that would have precluded her having issue.

John
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:50pm PT
Survival, I see you removed your post. What was it, the "fear machine" in some way? The Islamic cleric above I linked to has 9.5 million Twitter followers, three times as many as Neil deGrasse Tyson. That should be a concern to Americans, not just the go-bs or bluerings either.

If denial is this bad in the YouTube age, just imagine how bad it probably was in previous generations.

The worst part of this tragedy is going to be... insofar as the sh#t hits the fan, and its likely too, the truest moderns, i.e., the young people most of whom aren't Abrahamic religious at all, are going to get sucked into this medieval "God of Moses" malestrom. Or should I say Armageddon.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:54pm PT
Yes, I removed a post.

Sometimes I want to speak up about something, but I hate getting drawn into the merry-go-round arguments.

Frequently it's better if I step away.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:59pm PT
Well, I think we need to be having this conversation and the more the better. Even as it, in no way, means, "Bomb the Muslims!!"
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
We already know what violent religious fundamentalism can do in America. And we know why.

911 was a jihadist response to Al Qaeda's 3 published political grievances:

1) American troops on Saudi soil
2) American support of Israel, despite its persecution Palestinians and threats to Muslim nations
3) America's killing of Muslims in the ME, Central, Africa, and SE Asia.

An extremist version of Islam has been employed by Al Qaeda for recruitment and motivation, but, as with any major conflict, the end game is political: territory, autonomy, influence, and resources.

But 911 was perpetrated by a foreign group. Let's take a look at religion domestically, while we're all tucking into our newly purchased Korans:

Self identified Christians are the most violent religious group in America. The Pro Life movement alone has perpetrated 8 murders, 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault and battery, and numerous acid attacks, bombings, and acts of arson and vandalism in the US and Canada since 1977.

The takeaway, of course, is that if you're looking for the roots of violent extremism in either the Bible or the Koran, you'll certainly find something there to support your manufactured thesis - after all, your effort is the very definition of fudging the data to match the result.

The actual story is quite a bit more obvious, however. Al Qaeda's has largely been a political movement - as such things invariably are. Pro-Life violence has largely been specifically against abortion providers - nothing in the Bible to be found about that (without some very creative interpretation) - and many of the perps have a history of severe mental illness there.

Does either the Koran or the Bible inform us as to what's going on here?

No, not really.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:02pm PT
1) American troops on Saudi soil
2) American support of Israel, despite its persecution Palestinians and threats to Muslim nations
3) America's killing of Muslims in the ME, Central, Africa, and SE Asia.

Exactly.

QT And what is the (highly charged, highly motivating) basis for all three political grievances? Ans: Their religion taken traditionally.

extremist version of Islam

(aka the traditional Koranic version; and thank goodness only practiced / implemented by a minority)

the end game is political: territory, autonomy, influence, and re...

It's just completely lost on you, isn't it? that there just might be more than one factor in the mix, huh? the second being religious/theistic.

.....

If only for a day, an hour even, we could strip you of your modern scientific model for how the world works, throw back time, and have you raised in a fundamentalist household on the outskirts of Mosul on all you've ever been told about... the books of Moses and the Koran.

Would you think tvash's inner operating system and beliefs would yield a different sort of behavior? I would think so. And it would accurately be described as deeply and fundamentally religious assuming he cared about anything at all.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:10pm PT
I can tell you that much of the rest of the world is having an uncomfortable chuckle over America's moral outrage over ISIS...taking over some of the world's most productive oil fields.

It's so f*#king obvious from the outside in, but hey, that's America for ya. No mirrors unless they make you look skinnier.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
Your wiki knowledge of Islam (more accurately, Muslims around the world) seems to be about as Plank distance deep as your knowledge of the Standard Model, HFCS.

Matter and Energy! The universe explained - cerca 1940.

Look, some posters like to dig deep - assume the motives, the religious philosophies, and the passions, or lack thereof, of that fundamentalist family in Mosul (know any?), or that Indonesian rice farmer, or that other jaggoff on ST. Welcome to the web. In a world without data - anything goes.



High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
Well I have read the Koran back in the 90s and I've followed its affairs in the world pretty much since then (mostly comparing it to fundamentalist Christianity, what they have in common, and how they've been at each others throats) esp vis a vis what religious and theistic apologists like Huston Smith (World Religions) had to say about it.

Wiki knowledge. Matter and Energy. That's right. Take a year of molecular biology and biochemistry, then we'll talk. Maybe.

Look, I've had more than my share of life experience with religious fundamentalism - both Christian and Islamic. So you don't know what you're talking about there. Either.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:33pm PT
Effectively policy advocacy focuses on actions, not motivation.

Support for anti-marital equality policies is, without a doubt, largely religiously motivated. We've followed the money and have hard data to support that conclusion.

But we don't go after LDS or Focus on the Family. We go after the specific anti-marriage amendment, law, or future court ruling at hand. We avoid mentioning religion at all in our arguments. We don't need to.

Similarly, when figuring out what the best course of action is to counter a threat to ME stability and American interests in the region (ei, the spice) called ISIS - focusing on Islam in general is, of course, idiocy, particularly when nearly every one of your allies in your fragile or desired coalition are...ahem...cough, cough...Muslim.

Not that such American swagger and pointless profiling hasn't won us numerous friends in the region, mind you. Nothing cozies us up to the locals in the ME more than dropping the word 'crusade' or other ideological stinkbombs against all of Islam. I mean, if you're gonna go for the Win, GO BIG. Don't just fart in the closet, fart in the middle of the banquet room right in the middle of the main course. Hell, fart right on the main course.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
It's so f*#king obvious from the outside in

So you're outside looking in are you?

I agree that the bible and koran can both be read to mean whatever you think you need.

I lived in Saudi Arabia 86-90, I know the Arab mind as well as any on this board.

I don't support christian/abortion violence or fundamentalist christian violence in any way. But the truth is that they don't hold up to what the jihadists have been up to in violence the last 30 years at all.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
should reshape the narrative to
"ISIS Zombies" blah blah blah...

No one cares what you do to zombies as
long as you are killing them..


Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:44pm PT
I have trouble believing the entire thing isn't just a fabrication.

In 2 more years it will be some other "war" against some other funky acronym, followed on with great pomp, circumstance, and the launching of millions of dollars worth of missiles against people with bandannas covering their faces.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
Apparently tvash assimilates only what he chooses to assimilate.

I've said numerous times I agree with his political strategic approach regarding language and framing. (It's also Obama's approach. As well as Bush's. Regarding the languaging, that is.) But he ignores this, instead lumping me and others in with the folks who just want to go and fight.

He's simply failed to recognize that there are other worthy relevant conversations at hand, too - ones totally apart from "Let's stop wasting time, let's go over there and bomb the sh#t out of them!" yet still Abrahamic religion or fundamentalist Islamic or jihadist related.

He shortchanges himself and others in this regard.

Understanding and criticizing the doctrine of Islam—and finding some way to inspire Muslims to reform it—is one of the most important challenges the civilized world now faces. -Sam Harris

Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately Islam's "Reformation" is happening now. In our time. Unfortunately it didn't come about in arguably safer more low-profile times, say 200 years ago.

A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran. The reality of martyrdom and the sanctity of armed jihad are about as controversial under Islam as the resurrection of Jesus is under Christianity.

Also true. Obvious to anyone who's read the Koran in a serious way. Even more obvious to those Muslims who were raised on it.

But apparently this claim would need to be experienced first hand by tvash with double blind testing and data acquisition before he'd even think about accepting it.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 11, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
911 was a jihadist response to Al Qaeda's 3 published political grievances:

You mean the one that started on 9/11 1683?

The battle started before all units were fully deployed. At 4 AM, the Ottomans attacked, seeking to interfere with the deployment of the Holy League troops.[8]:661 Charles of Lorraine moved forward with the Imperial army on the left, with the other Holy Roman Imperial forces in the centre.

Mustafa Pasha launched a counter-attack with most of his force, but held back some of the elite Janissary and Sipahi units for a simultaneous assault on the city. The Ottoman commanders had intended to take Vienna before Sobieski arrived, but time ran out. Their sappers had prepared a large, final detonation under the Löbelbastei[24] to breach the walls. In total, ten mines were set to explode but they were located and disarmed.[17]:169

At that moment, a large battle was underway above the "subterranean battlefield" as the Polish infantry launched a massive assault on the Ottoman right flank. Instead of focusing on the battle with the relief army, the Ottomans continued their efforts to force their way into the city.[17]:152

At one point during the battle, Kara Mustafa personally ordered the execution of 30,000 Christian hostages.[10]

After twelve hours of fighting, the Poles held the high ground on the right. On the flanks, it is recorded that the Polish cavalry slowly emerged from the forest to the cheers of the onlooking infantry, who had been anticipating their arrival. The Holy League cavalry waited on the hills and watched the infantry battle for the whole day. At about 5 PM, the Polish King ordered the cavalry attack in four groups, three Polish and one from the Holy Roman Empire. Eighteen thousand horsemen charged down the hills, the largest cavalry charge in history.[17]:152 Jan III Sobieski led the charge[8]:661 at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers, the famed "Winged Hussars". The Lipka Tatars who fought on the Polish side wore a sprig of straw in their helmets to distinguish themselves from the Tatars fighting on the Ottoman side. The charge broke the lines of the Ottomans, who were exhausted from the long struggle on two fronts. The cavalry headed straight for the Ottoman camps and Kara Mustafa's headquarters, while the remaining Viennese garrison sallied out of its defences to join in the assault.[8]:661 A cloud caused the crescent moon to fade from view, ominously for the Turks.[8]:661

The Ottoman troops were tired and dispirited following the failure of both the attempt at sapping and the assault on the city. The arrival of the cavalry turned the tide of battle against them, sending them into retreat to the south and east by nightfall.[8]:661 Less than three hours after the cavalry attack, the Christian forces had won the battle and saved Vienna.

Afterwards Sobieski paraphrased Julius Caesar's famous quotation (Veni, vidi, vici) by saying "Veni, vidi, Deus vicit" – "I came, I saw, God conquered".[8]:661

Yeah, it's that crazy Polack kings fault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 03:21pm PT
Awful movie, that one. Just awful.

Perhaps Al Qaeda is still secretly miffed about Vienna. If they are, they haven't issued any press releases.

I haven't tripped over any recommendations for US action here (save my own) in all this The Koran and Bible Suck talk.

I'm a heathen personally, but I also support the right to believe what one chooses, regardless of how seriously not not I may take that belief, and even while I'm actively attempting to counter what I deem as attempts to erode civil liberties by those who espouse them.

I also recognize that belief in myth is an evolved human trait, and that fighting against that particularly tendency (and not the actions that may or may not be informed by it with regards to INDIVIDUAL, not all, believers) isn't time and effort well spent.

Violence is the region under discussion is a problem best understood in holistic terms - historical, sectarian, nationalistic, racial, resources, religious, personal. It's hard to triangulate an accurate picture of that dynamic situation from over here, granted. Preaching the evils of the Koran and the Bible seems to be a bit off the mark and unproductive is all. Inventing strawmen Mosulites one has never and will never meet is a downright silly way to fill in the obvious gaps in one's familiarity with the region. Personally, I claim none. Never been there.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 11, 2014 - 03:41pm PT
The difference between a Christian and a Moslem is that one believes that you are a sinner and going to hell unless you believe of your own free will,




the other that it's his duty to send you to hell as soon as possible.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
belief in myth is an evolved human trait

No, learning (about the world and how it works, for eg) is "an evolved human trait."

"Belief in myth" is a parental/cultural hand-me-down. And those that are pernicious need to be remedied, those that are outdated need to be updated. Further, this usually won't come about on its own except by pressure, or pressures, of some sort.

Preaching the evils of the Koran and the Bible seems to be a bit off the mark and unproductive is all.

You almost sound like Jan here, bless her heart. One playbook, one strategy. One strategy, one playbook. There's no reason not to employ multiple strategies from our playbook to minimize this cancer.

Inventing strawmen Mosulites one has never and will never meet is a downright silly...

No it isn't, not as a hypothetical - esp one based on a lifetime of being human - which frankly is not one planck length hard to imagine for some of us - if it helps enlighten your thinking in this area.

Preaching the evils of the Koran...

It's all in the wording, isn't it? "Preaching"? How about we show good faith at some point and settle for... discussing the seriously retro, violence-inspiriing, iron-aged dogma of the Koran?

.....

"there is now a large industry of obfuscation designed to protect Muslims from having to grapple with these truths. Our humanities and social science departments are filled with scholars and pseudo-scholars deemed to be experts in terrorism, religion, Islamic jurisprudence, anthropology, political science, and other diverse fields, who claim that where Muslim intolerance and violence are concerned, nothing is ever what it seems." -SH

Here's another. Just one more. This one seems esp tailor-made for the tvashes of the far left...

"In any conversation on this topic, one must continually deploy a firewall of caveats and concessions to irrelevancy: Of course, U.S. foreign policy has problems. Yes, we really must get off oil. No, I did not support the war in Iraq. Sure, I’ve read Chomsky. No doubt, the Bible contains equally terrible passages. Yes, I heard about that abortion clinic bombing in 1984. No, I’m sorry to say that Hitler and Stalin were not motivated by atheism. The Tamil Tigers? Of course, I’ve heard of them. Now can we honestly talk about the link between belief and behavior?"

Yes, this sounds VERY familiar.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 11, 2014 - 05:39pm PT
Perhaps Al Qaeda is still secretly miffed about Vienna. If they are, they haven't issued any press releases.

Actually they are.
That battle marked the beginning of the end of Islamic hegemony over the entire Mediterranean basin and the start of what they consider a dark age that can only end with the reestablishment of the caliphate.





Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.

They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.

They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn’t done enough for — yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part — something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.

The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason — it is his reason, and not ours.
Michelle

Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
Sep 11, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
The spice must flow.

DMT


haha
WBraun

climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
HFCS -- "iron-aged dogma of the Koran"

hahahaha

You're hosed.

The iron age lasts 432,000 years of which only 5000 years have gone by yet.

427,000 years to go and it keeps get worse and worse until the end of the iron age.

There's no escape till then

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 11, 2014 - 06:27pm PT
Vienna was just one of well over a 100 battles fought by the Ottomans with everyone from the Russkies to the Holy Romans from 1300 to 1900. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on it. Everyone in Europe and W Asia was warring with someone almost continually during that period.

Just more data fitting to justify the dehumanization needed to support more warfare.

Same old story. No new tricks.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 11, 2014 - 07:03pm PT
Even he gets it.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 11, 2014 - 07:41pm PT
tgt, that's exactly right. Thanks for the heads up too on one of my illuminaries, I had no idea he sat down with Rose. Your right, he gets it. Unlike so many of my liberal brethren.

Apparently, the whole episode airs tomorrow, the 12th, on pbs. The man is spot on. I love Charlie but look at all the deflecting on his part. Wow.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 11, 2014 - 09:53pm PT
Probably no US boots on the ground (outside the green-zone!)

What is happening.
Our advisers are twisting the arms of the Iragi generals
making them issue orders to their army units to attack ISIS in places
we tell them to. Of course these units 'get lost'
in the desert or have 'breakdowns' and avoid contact with ISIS.
We watch them with drones in real time, knowing they will go south when they should go north to avoid fighting.

So the life of US advisers consists mainly of a lot of yelling and threats passing back and forth over the comm links to unhappy kids driving war equipment around in circles in the desert.

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/20/5824480/why-the-iraqi-army-cant-defeat-isis


Riddle: When planning a weekend road trip how many rounds of
ammunition are needed for the Al-Hasakah to Mosul drive?
Answer: I don't know but if 'you' do you could be a jihadi.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 10:56am PT
Dave, I have wondered to myself quietly why we don't have spec-ops guys driving around in technicals, disguised as jihadis with beards and masks, just like them.

But they have to have Russian weapons on top, not M-240's or M-2's. To blend in.

I have a feeling we're doing that. Yes, Dingus, I said WE!!!!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:06am PT
I asked him if he knew what the expression "winning the hearts and minds" meant. He did not know. He acknowledge that he knew nothing of the history of the Vietnam war.

And the cycle continues...

It would be extremely rare for a modern officer to know nothing about Vietnam, or hearts and minds. Apparently you ran into a lone wolf knucklehead.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:27am PT
It seems as though the US is pushing for this fight against ISIS among a reluctant group of regional 'partners', with the Pershmerga being a lone, notable exception.

The good news, perhaps, is that Iran is no longer so focused on Israel. The bad news, perhaps, is that we're no longer so focused on preventing Iran from getting nukes.

That, and allying with the 'moderate' Syrian opposition, supported by our Saudi pals, drags us further into that civil war and closer to more direct confrontation with Iran.

Now that we're actively training and arming the 'moderate' Syrian opposition, we risk leaving the same kind of legacy we did with the mujahideen, whose former membership kicked off all this 911 > Afghanistan > Iraq insanity in the first place.

I see lots of civilian (Muslim) dead in the Sunni Triangle in the near future should a coalition pushed by the US attempt to crush - rather than contain, ISIS. Another legacy that will likely keep on giving in the terrorism department.

Perhaps it really is best for our long term national security to let the region figure it out. It's certainly a viable option which doesn't seem to be under serious discussion these days. The idea that ISIS is much of a national security threat to the US is, well, kind of laughable to me. They are certainly a threat to oil prices and energy stocks - given they've taken to undercutting prices on the black market in a big way. Is that a reason to go to war? It has been in the past.

On a different note, it's very unlikely that a modern Army officer would have much historical knowledge about the lessons of Vietnam without significant, objective self study. Tactics and strategy? Sure. The whole historical/political story? No.

The Neocons were America's reaction to our defeat in Vietnam - they are the 'we could have won that one, let's try again' guys. Despite having gotten beat up in 3 Vietnams to date - their ideas are still alive and well today, apparently, as America acquiesces to yet another potential quagmire in the ME.

The bluster is certainly all there - the dreams of quick victory through 'superior firepower', blah blah. It's the tired 'bubble war' mentality - actions without consequences, 'contained' conflict with 'willing' partners, 'cowering' adversaries, all fueled by appropriate moral outrage.

We'll do it right this time. I'm sure we will.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:35am PT
From the statements on this thread, the Near East remains a cradle of religious beliefs, since most of the comments here seem based on little other than faith.

John
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:36am PT
America has forgotten about Vietnam, including much of our military. Few Americans today understood how we got involved and how/why we escalated into full scale war. It's going to cost us.

Good point, but it's sad to me that this isn't taught.

"Those who don't know their history are condemned to repeat it"

Santayana.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:44am PT
"From the statements on this thread, the Near East remains a cradle of religious beliefs, since most of the comments here seem based on little other than faith."

Belief is one's support of a claim. Faith is the degree to which one is willing to believe a claim without requiring supporting evidence.

'Faith' is a logically fallacious label often applied to reasoned, evidence based arguments in an effort to reduce their legitimacy, but it's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of its definition.

Given that we have 30 war-years of recent evidence that indicates foreign military involvement in regional civil/sectarian wars yields overwhelmingly negative outcomes for the US (failed objectives - destabilization of the region and - not the least of which - the cost to the US is lives, money, and international relationships), I'd say, while there certainly is conjecture (as there always is when musing about future outcomes), this is not a faith-based exercise at all.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:54am PT
Three of the lessons of Vietnam we should pay close attention to:

1) We overestimated the national security threat to the US.
2) Political fashion (Democrats are NOT SOFT ON communism! Who 'lost' China?!) of the day drove our march to war
3) We didn't understand the nature of the conflict (civil war versus commie hegemonistic expansion, unpopularity of the S. VN regime)
4) We were warned (the Eisenhower administration assessed the country and founding it a poor fit for US military capability. It was.)

Regarding ISIS, considerations 1 (um...give me a break) and 2 (mid terms!) are obvious. 3 - given the clusterf*#k that is the Syrian civil war, seems obvious as well. 4 - do we need another disaster in Iraq to drive this point home?

JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 11:58am PT
Three of the lessons of Vietnam we should pay close attention to:

1) We overestimated the national security threat to the US.
2) Political fashion (Democrats are NOT SOFT ON communism! Who 'lost' China?!) of the day drove our march to war
3) We didn't understand the nature of the conflict (civil war versus commie hegemonistic expansion, unpopularity of the S. VN regime)
4) We were warned (the Eisenhower administration assessed the country and founding it a poor fit for US military capability. It was.)

There are three kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't! Then again, Tvash, you strike as a heavy tipper.

John
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 12, 2014 - 12:00pm PT
LOL. I'm gonna have to leave my post as is to preserve the moment, JE! And, come to think of it, I am a good tipper due to arithmetic laziness :^D
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 12, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
That's the calculation much of the Iraqi Army seems to be making.

"Sunni Triangle? Not my problem, sir."

Can anyone blame them? The country's been a dump since 12 years of bombing in the 90s destroyed its infrastructure - the 2003 invasion didn't exactly improve stability after that. No, not so much.

'Iraq' is probably a largely a foreigner's fantasy these days given that each faction has retreated to its home turf.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 12, 2014 - 12:42pm PT
America has forgotten about Vietnam, including much of our military. Few Americans today understood how we got involved and how/why we escalated into full scale war. It's going to cost us.

A really good point. I sure f*#king get it. I was one of the very last drafted. Watched the whole mess play out.

I saw something this morning that bugged me out. One of the Viet Nam factards, was they always avoided calling it a war. Until it was over. It was always a "Conflict" or some other stupid word.

So "Throw his Medals on the Capitol Steps" Kerry, was all over the 'nets this morning, playing word games trying to avoid calling it a "war".

Yup over and over again.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 12, 2014 - 02:02pm PT
A little sympathy for the Iraqi army.

Enough of the ISIS fighters are totally batsh^t crazy and will do the suicide bomber bit as VSW's 'very smart weapons' in city block to block fighting.

A Toyotatruck speeds around a corner
and zooms towards Iraqi fighting positions.

The welded on heavy machine gun blazing away at 1200rnds per minute shredding concrete buildings the soldiers are hiding behind.

When it gets close it detonates! And then maybe a second one may follow getting further into friendly
lines causing more damage.

In the aftermath dust clouds suicide bombers on foot dressed as regular army infiltrate their positions. When close enough 'Ka-Blam!'

So understandably no one is very eager to fight ISIS inside towns.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 12, 2014 - 02:20pm PT
Posted this a while back, but it gives some insight on to what's wrong with the Iraqi army.

http://foreign-intrigue.com/2014/09/voices-from-the-front-2/

We needed to go all MacArthur (in Japan) on that place.

Too late now.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 12, 2014 - 02:55pm PT
Didn't read the interview did ya.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 03:05pm PT
Too late now.


It's never too late, Wendell. It's just a matter of will.

I hate to use stupid metaphors, but where there's a will, there is a way.

Israelis know this all too well...
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 03:08pm PT
The Iraqi army is not loyal to Iraq because, after Saddam Hussein lost power, Iraq ceased to exist.

Americans never understood that, still don't.

There's much truth to that, Dave. In fact, some of us would say that Iraq was an artificial construct from the end of the First World War.

The violence that's erupted in the near east is, in my opinion, not dissimilar to that which took place in the Balkans, and has its roots in some of the same issues. To me, one of the greatest ironies of the region is that the relatively merciful treatment of conquered peoples by the Ottomans (yes, I know this seems like an odd statement for an Armenian to make) resulted in a great many different ethnic and religious groups coexisting in Ottoman territory. When the Ottomans were driven out of the Balkans, and when the Empire collapsed after WWI, the resulting territories had a natural instability because the inhabitants felt primary loyalty to their ethnic group, not to their country.

This resulted in the massacres and a certian amount of ethnic cleansing (mainly of Greeks and Armenians) in Turkey, but it continued elsewhere to the present day. I watched this happen in Lebanon up close and personal in 1975, but similar things happened in Yugoslavia,, and are happening now in Syria and Iraq.

I just hope it doesn't ever happen in the US. When we decide that other Americans aren't "real" Americans, we set the stage for just that sort of societal disintegration that's happening now in Iraq and Syria. The Ferguson thread and some of the garbage I see on nativist websites makes me wonder if we aren't already heading in that direction, since we have such differing biases.

Oh well, the weekend is upon me, and I don't plan on using any of that time to spew further here, but whenver I see Iraq-like problems elsewhere, I can't help but think that it wouldn't take that much for us to degenerate into the same thing.

John
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Sep 12, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
Much of the ISIS muscle and know-how comes from what was the Baathist segment of the Iraq army orphaned once we deposed Saddam and remained so until rekindled as the prime technical and managerial component of ISIS.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 12, 2014 - 03:35pm PT
I just hope it doesn't ever happen in the US. When we decide that other Americans aren't "real" Americans, we set the stage for just that sort of societal disintegration that's happening now in Iraq and Syria. The Ferguson thread and some of the garbage I see on nativist websites makes me wonder if we aren't already heading in that direction, since we have such differing biases.

Oh well, the weekend is upon me, and I don't plan on using any of that time to spew further here, but whenver I see Iraq-like problems elsewhere, I can't help but think that it wouldn't take that much for us to degenerate into the same thing.

Be assured, John, that I don' see this happening here anytime soon. Despite our differences, we still respect the rule of law.

Maybe that's what those f*#kers over there need....law and order.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 12, 2014 - 04:52pm PT
They do have law. It's the law of God.

They don't have any law except the law of the strong man and clan loyalty.

Hell, Herodotus was detailing exactly the same kinds of problems, in the same region, in the first history book!


John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 12, 2014 - 06:35pm PT
seems obvious from some of the stupid sh#t Obama said in the speech, he is not now, or never was Muslim.
So any of you guys that ever said so, can use this thread to apologize. Not for us, mind you, confession, is good for the soul.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:03pm PT
"Lets Roll" has 3 meanings
1 passengers trapped in a carbon fiber tube at 35,000ft with terrorists.
2 ISIS f^ck-tards wanting to murder people in the next village.
and
3 Barry telling the Choomers he needs more smoke.

but wait... who really cares! I'm going climbing this weekend.
Yee-haw!

WBraun

climber
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:17pm PT
Bottom line is they're total fukups period in the whole foreign policy.

Stupid warmongering tools all over the planet.

When's Shock and Awe starting up again Doc?

Tomorrow?

Stupid fuking idiots, all of em ......
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:18pm PT
dr f = troll
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
Wow! We're in another war.

Are we the Sunnis this time? Or are we the Shiites again?
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:31pm PT
Dr F is NOT just a troll. He's an over educated troll.
And does not believe in history ever repeating itself.





crankster

Trad climber
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:37pm PT
Bush said that if the USA withdrew out of Iraq too soon, that it would open the door to any and all undesirables. That appears to be a rather accurate prediction..

Imagine, using a quote from the birdbrain that started the War in Iraq. Unbelievable.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 12, 2014 - 07:59pm PT
Paying any mind to what Buch & Cheney say is so beyond absurd I can't believe it's being talked about.
MikeL

Social climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 12, 2014 - 08:01pm PT
This must be some kind of lesson being presented to us, again, and again, and again . . . until this country learns it. It sometimes looks to me as though the only way to learn it is for someone to conquer us. Failure isn't working.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 13, 2014 - 12:33am PT
Bush said that if the USA withdrew out of Iraq too soon, that it would open the door to any and all undesirables. That appears to be a rather accurate prediction..

What did he say about Jr's "mission accomplished " speech on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln ? As I recall, it was the "end of combat operations" and we could pull back because as soon as we got all the weapons of mass destruction the Iraqis were going to welcome us with open arms.



That was 2003 before Saddam was captured or And he spent the next seven years trying to find Ossama , his business partner's son( or not).


How accurate was that prediction?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 12:44am PT
Mission Accomplished referred to removing Saddam from power. And he was.

Let's be honest here...
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 12:52am PT
why was that a good idea again?

more to the point- why was that an American problem to solve?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 13, 2014 - 01:02am PT



bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA

Sep 13, 2014 - 12:44am PT
Mission Accomplished referred to removing Saddam from power. And he was.

Let's be honest here...

No, you be honest.
It was to celebrate the end of combat operations.
It was May1 2003 . Saddam wasn't captured until December 13 that year.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dawn

Bush stated at the time that this was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. Bush's assertion—and the sign itself—became controversial after guerrilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency. The vast majority of casualties, both military and civilian, occurred after the speech.[2]

Get your facts straight.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:05am PT
Lorenzo, he was not 'in power'. The country was in our control.

Whether it wise to remove him from control is a whole different story.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:10am PT
Lol. I almost Fallujahed all over my cornflakes. Whats next on the Locked and Loaded Channel?
WBraun

climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:27am PT
Dick Cheney will show up and start pulling levers and pushing buttons .....
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:45am PT
I just think the Bush-haters use the whole 'Mission Accomplished' thing disingenuously. What about Obama declaring that that he was leaving behind a peaceful and stable Iraq?

Fact of the matter is that we're going to be bombing that shithole for a while. Question is, should we just bail, or make a semi-permamnent base like Germany/Japan? Ya pull out or go all in.

EDIT:
Dick Cheney will show up and start pulling levers and pushing buttons .....


He doesn't need to 'show up'. He's always there, the man behind the curtain.

MMWWaahhhh!!!!


Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:56am PT
Few here rise to 'Utter Buffoon'. You can almost admire the commitment.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:03am PT
Few here rise to 'Utter Buffoon'. You can almost admire the commitment.

Are you talking about Obama? I concur with you....
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:13am PT
I just think the Bush-haters use the whole 'Mission Accomplished' thing disingenuously

blue you think liberals/ignorant voters will stand up!
they are just as arrogant as this current administration.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:23am PT
Should'a gone MacArthur on them.

We had a sucessful model to go on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan

What if Truman had pulled a BHO style cut and run?
What would the world look like now?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:25am PT
What is fascinating to me is that Bush was a 'stupid, bumbling idiot' to so many liberals, but they fail to acknowledge the many failures and fumbling's of the current administration.

Obama is a disaster. He takes weeks to react to anything, and it's only done when polls dictate that he should. He's purely a reactionary, political entity.

He has no leadership skillz. But he takes a good talk...meh.

The whole ISIS thing could have been crushed 6 months ago. And many Yezidi/Christian people would still be alive today, or wouldn't have been raped by marauding invaders.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:43am PT
The US has no business in Iraq or Syria. What was the original goal of destroying Iraq? To topple a dictator? That's bullsh#t. We wanted easy oil and that's all there is to it. Gee, big surprise, it totally backfired. Now there is no getting out of it.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:45am PT
Oh you mean How Bush was such a great pro-active leader when it came to Al-Quaida, New Orleans and the economy?

No fan of Obama here but Bush allowed over 4000 Americands to die on their own soil unnecessarily due to incompetance. Then ordered several thousand more to go die in a pointless war which Obama is still dealing with the mess from. ISIS is a direct result of BUSH idiocy.
WBraun

climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:48am PT
ISIS is a direct result of BUSH idiocy

Nope ... it was Bush's handlers.

The President becomes the sum substance of his handlers ......

sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:51am PT
The title should be Puppedent, rather than President.
dirtbag

climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:00am PT
"Takes weeks..."

Given that the previous administration, and public, had a throbbing hard-on for immediate military action--which has led to some disastrous results--I welcome deliberation.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:02am PT

Lorenzo, he was not 'in power'. The country was in our control.

Whether it wise to remove him from control is a whole different story.

The country was NOT in our control. That's just Bush republicrat psychobabble. They figure if they say a lie often enough it becomes true.

The vast majority of casualties, both military and civilian, occurred after the speech [2]


The war had hardly begun. FOUR YEARS LATER Bush had to send in additional troops to damp down the insurgency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002437.html

bush to send in more troops to stabilize Iraq.

Stop living in neo-republican dreamland and face facts. The Bush policy in Iraq was a complete dreamland. There isn't one single thing he did right there, and it will be another 10 years before we extricate ourselves from a mess we should never have gone into in the first place.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:16am PT
Locker, you have to go back even farther to understand the situation.

The Genisis of this is the 'Arab Spring' that was encouraged by the academic, incompetent, geniuses like Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, and Hitlery Clinton advising the prez.

We were going to make the ME a 20th century, civilized member of society with I-phones and Twitter accounts. What Bush could never do. But they didn't learn from Bush's failures.

That is, that some countries in the ME actually NEED an old-school ruler to keep things from fomenting. Some tribes and factions knew what they could or couldn't get away with.

So, we helped to destabilize Egypt, and that ushered in the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood. The people there decided that was f*#ked up and the military took control and essentially arrested the MB and outlawed them.

Next was Ghaddafi and Libya. We bombed the piss out of Libya and helped rebels kill him. Take a look at Libya today. Google it. And don't forget Benghazi, where our Ambassador was murdered in the chaos that ensued.

Weapons and fighters from Libya were then funneled to Syria to attempt to overthrow Assad. Some say that our Benghazi CIA operation was trying to intercept the more lethal weapons.

At this point, after a couple of years of watching this, a logical person would conclude that we're creating more chaos, not spreading peace. That maybe we should stop trying to overthrow these gov't.

Idiot John McCain and Lyndsey Graham actually lobbied Congress to give weapons to rebels that could very much be the same people we're attacking today. We should have been supporting Assad to quash the uprising.

Sounds counter-intuitive because Assad is the boogeyman, but in his absence there would be much worse, as evidenced in Egypt and Libya. And now Iraq.

Instead of scolding Assad, we should have been providing him with intel to target these rats. They are FAR worse than he is.
WBraun

climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:23am PT
we should never have gone into in the first place.

As an energy dependent nation with limited natural resources to maintain the high standard of modern industrialization that the country has become addicted to they made that logical choice for that reason.

The oil industry and its subsequent lobbying affiliates all where looking to secure future resources to maintain the illusionary industrialization dream.

The American public is addicted to the illusionary dream also.

We are all guilty .......
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:33am PT
We are all guilty .......

Not me, brah! I know damn well we could be energy independent today if we wanted to be. We HAVE the resources

We just have too much BS standing in the way. We could tell the ME to take their sh#t elsewhere in a heartbeat if we REALLY wanted to.

Washington is really f*#ked up, and we need more common sense there, less under-the-table deals.

Werner, I'll chip into the pot if you wanna run. We need guys like you there.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:37am PT
"We should have been supporting Assad to quash the uprising.

Sounds counter-intuitive because Assad is the boogeyman, but in his absence there would be much worse, as evidenced in Egypt and Libya. And now Iraq.

Instead of scolding Assad, we should have been providing him with intel to target these rats. They are FAR worse than he is."



Such a clear view into the mind, such as it is, and the heart, if one can be found, of certain kind of conservative's mind.

So much for democracy, self determination, opposition to tyranny, and human rights. America, how far you've fallen.

Oh, and the ISIS thing is NOTHING compared to the Syrian Civil War in terms of the human misery it's caused - by any measure you can possibly think of.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 09:56am PT
America, how far you've fallen.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 13, 2014 - 11:10am PT
I am not knowledgeable enough with this subject to say much else...

locker you make a good looking democrat cheerleader!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 11:30am PT
You 'hate' the ME? Have you ever been anywhere near the region? How about abroad in general?

I've heard its an incredible place with incredible people - from someone who just got back from Jordan, Egypt, and Israel.

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 13, 2014 - 01:53pm PT


http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-jihadi-from-denmark-takes-selfie-with-severed-head

Comparing the Quran with the acts of Islamic State, one understands that what is coming out of Syria these days is Islam 101: “So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their bonds, and either [confer] favor afterwards or ransom [them] until the war lays down its burdens. That [is the command].” (Quran, 47:4)
.

This is the 25-year-old Mohammad from Ishoej, the now-renamed Jacob. He disappeared September 2 of last year from the City of Copenhagen. According to friends and family, he went to Syria, where he has joined the extremely violent Islamist movement known as the Islamic State, IS. …

Radio24syv is in possession of nine pictures showing the 25-year-old man with a large beard, a scarf around his forehead and black clothes. He is wearing a gun belt with a pistol and a hand grenade, a belt bag and a belt on the chest with the words ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’.

In one photo, he sits on his knees, pointing with his right hand towards a severed head. In other photographs he stands along a fence, pointing at severed heads that are put on skewers, while the headless bodies are attached to the fence. Several of the photos shows signs of fresh blood.


Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 13, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
Not any different than the bible.

Samuel 22:37

…37"You enlarge my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped. 38"I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, And I did not turn back until they were consumed. 39"And I have devoured them and shattered them, so that they did not rise; And they fell under my feet.…

mathew21:44

43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Crushing enemies is not exclusive to Islam. All the people of the book have the concept.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
I guess that's the Chief's way of saying "I agree with you, one shouldn't 'hate' a region one knows nothing about"

pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 13, 2014 - 02:13pm PT
nice!
thanks locker!
OR

Trad climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
Great …another beheading. A brit
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 13, 2014 - 04:20pm PT
More WOAR is needed... The Wag the Dog beheading productions will continue to rally the British and American public into supporting more bombings and killings.

Kinda sick eh?
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 13, 2014 - 04:35pm PT
Uh oh.... starting to think eh? Doesn't add up does it? Do a little research on the head of "ISIS" and where he came from.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 13, 2014 - 05:22pm PT
With the latest beheading today, you'd think the f*#king Brits would get off their hands and actually DO SOMETHING!!!

Are we really expected to do EVERYTHING while catching all the bullsh#t? Is that the f*#king game???

It's not a game.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 05:54pm PT
Perhaps the Brits are more level headed, having just eaten a mile long shite sandwich in the region themselves.
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Sep 13, 2014 - 06:00pm PT
David Cameron of Britain today vowed the country 'will not be cowed' by threats from ISIS extremists to murder a British hostage - and vowed to fight back until the terrorist group was 'squeezed out of existence'.

The Prime Minister told a sombre House of Commons of his 'shock and anger' that Steven Sotloff's killer appeared to be British and insisted: 'This country will never give into terrorism.'

Ministers have insisted that no decision has been taken to rule out air strikes on ISIS in Iraq, but public pressure in the UK is expected to increase after the revelation that a Briton is being held by the same group which killed US journalists James Foley and Mr Sotloff.

Mr Cameron told MPs that Britain had an opportunity 'to marshal international support and backing for the view that this ISIL so-called Islamic caliphate is unacceptable and needs to be squeezed out of existence'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2741822/Cameron-faces-calls-RAF-join-US-air-strikes-Iraq-threat-kill-British-hostage.html


And so Britain being pissed off and not ruling out air strikes is.......doing nothing.....
TYeary

Social climber
State of decay
Sep 13, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
Those MF ers are very lucky I'm not the president . I would, at this moment, be exporting hydrogen by the megaton to Isis. We are at a crossroads. Islamic extremism, like any extremism, needs to be snuffed out. Extremism of any kind, is not compatible with civilization.
TY
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 06:53pm PT
It IS a crazy idea. Isn't it?

Just nuking the whole region. In one fell swoop. And then taking it over: colonizing it 21st century style in modern western culture: McDonalds to Space X ala Elon Musk.

The colonizing part would take a couple generations though.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

Wouldn't several "intractable" seemingly "interminable" problems be solved at once? I wonder how many others are thinking along these lines? Wow.

Who here's to say the balance sheet of such a scenario wouldn't more than offset - even by a magnitude (that's a x10 factor for you non-math types) - the one that's currently in play?

Just food for thought. From a bar. On the East Side. Inspired by Yeary. Who I think is a Harris fan.

.....

I used to be so dismissive of such an outlandish idea because no way could such an option ever be "on the table." But in this hour, on this day, a while after watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I'm NOT so sure anymore.

One thing's for sure: We could certainly call it something of a modern day "Reformation." How would the 22nd century critique it? I don't know. How do we view the US today, in the aftermath of colonizing North America over 200 years at the expense of the native Americans? When it comes to comparing scenarios and balance sheets, was it worth it? I believe a lot of us would say yes. Yes, it was worth it.

I don't know, others might disagree. Tvash for one. As he, for eg, seems quite black n white (no indecision or shades of gray) on any and all of this. Notwithstanding his robust leftish lib leanings.

.....

One thing's for sure, though. If I am entertaining such an outlandish idea in this crazy hour, you can bet your bottom dollar that Christianity-driven right wing conservative nutjobs are too. Heads up.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:11pm PT
Seems like the difference between Christianity and Islam is that christianity mostly moved on from the old testament which is full of eye for and eye slaughter to the much kinder and gentler New tesatament. Additionaly most christians outside of the american bible belt don't take it too seriously. As long as they thank Jesus now and then and give to charity a few times a year they feel like good Christians. Islam seems to be moveing backwards and embraceing the old ways. They seem to take the Koran literaly and seriously. something like 80% of muslims believe that death is the proper punishment for denouncing Islam. most christians even the ones from kansas and texas would be appaled at the thought of killing someone over leaveing the church. face it. Muslims are simply light years ahead of Christians when it comes to how dedicated they are to their religion. they take that shite very seriously! none of this going to church once a week or once a month or just easter and Xmass. heck they would kill me just for calling it xmass instead of Christmas if it were a Muslim holliday....
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
So, why is ISIS committing these atrocities and posting them worldwide?

What purpose does it serve? What does it accomplish?

a reflection close to 9/11: why did AQ send 19 guys from Saudi Arabia on this attack? Why not some Iraqis? Why not some Palestinians? Why not some Pakistanis? Was it a coincidence?

Right now, ISIS is spreading a narrative of the west being the great enemy that only wants to kill muslims---any muslims. They have an agenda of trying to bring within their fold as many muslims as possible. Us killing non-ISIS muslims feeds right into that narrative. It becomes a recruiting tool.

To use bombs, you have to have a target. Particularly when we use very high yield weapons, like nuclear, it is very hard to limit the killing to our enemies.

But there is another issue: is the US seriously threatened with being taken over militarily? NO. So to use weapons of mass destruction to kill huge numbers of people who are actually no threat whatsoever to us, puts us into the same category as Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.....except even worse. We are not talking about using these things for self-preservation, which I grant would be a whole other issue.
TYeary

Social climber
State of decay
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:18pm PT
I used to be so dismissive of such an outlandish idea because no way could such an option ever be "on the table." But in this hour, I'm NOT so sure anymore.

Me too, I am so sorry to say. There is very little wriggle room with folks who live in the Iron Age.
TY
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
is the US seriously threatened with being taken over

ANS Absolutely not. But then again, do YOU have ANY idea what two coordinated attacks (let alone three or five) would do to your country (never mind the economy), to our collective morale, etc etc. were they in the form of nuclear bombs in downtown NYC and Chicago?


With all due respect (more than you've given me recently) you don't really seem to. By recent postings.

Further, whether planned and executed by either (a) the "Islam for Dummies" misfits emigrating from America or Britain to the ME; or (b) hard-core jihadi Islamic clerics raised on the Quran anywhere in the ME, I would hope you'd agree, it hardly matters. A 10 megaton thermonuclear bomb in downtown NYC or Chicago or SF would be unspeakably devastating.
dirtbag

climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:24pm PT
Isis is trolling us.
WBraun

climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:26pm PT
Correct answer by dirtbag
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 13, 2014 - 07:46pm PT
Well, insofar as they're trolling us, they're doing it by means a wee-bit more impacting than a keyboard and forum, I'd say.

.....

What I hate is that there seems to be a far left that is as clueless in these matters as the right. I "hate" it because I am myself a robust lib and as such I "hate" to see us divided so.

Maybe Hillary will be able to set the ship to rights.

Between the right and the far left, I feel... alone... isolated... a single, a singulant... in/of a small minority... But hey no worries, as I have a cure, at least locally in the now: an adventurous climb tomorrow! Sweet dreams! :)
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 08:02pm PT
Regarding nuking civilian populations, we do have a history...

Complete with the 'get them before they get us' psychopathy.

Go Christianity?
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 13, 2014 - 10:06pm PT
Wait... Japan attacked us? Is our government aware of this??!!!

Were women and children flying those Mitsubishis? JAP BASTARDS!

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Sep 13, 2014 - 11:40pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 13, 2014 - 11:44pm PT
Fructose, sorry if I've been severe. Sometimes I get caught up in the rhetoric and the words in front of me.

ANS Absolutely not. But then again, do YOU have ANY idea what two coordinated attacks (let alone three or five) would do to your country (never mind the economy), to our collective morale, etc etc. were they in the form of nuclear bombs in downtown NYC and Chicago?

I do not believe that such an attack would result in our surrendering the country to the perps. In any case, ISIS does not have these.

Those that do have them are totally aware of what would result.

Understanding that all nukes have signatures that show where they were made, that cannot be faked, what would we do if a bomb detonated that had the signature of Israel or another allied power?
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 14, 2014 - 12:11am PT

One thing's for sure, though. If I am entertaining such an outlandish idea in this crazy hour, you can bet your bottom dollar that Christianity-driven right wing conservative nutjobs are too.

No! We're only preparing for nutjobs like you. With YOUR outlandish propaganda to commit mass murder to those that don't meet your discrempecy.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 14, 2014 - 06:04am PT
Fact is, Jihad is churning around in the center of the Arab World, instead of at the frontiers. We don't need to do anything.

How about we troll them?

http://alplatformmedia.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=51
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:00am PT
Can ONLY imagine what action she would be taking on ISIS if she was at the helm....

she would hesitate for 26 seconds....
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:42am PT
Can ONLY imagine what action she would be taking on ISIS if she was at the helm....

Well, she probably wouldn't have sat with a sick expression on her face for seven minutes while the US was under the greatest terrorist attack in its history.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53548-2004Jun18.html

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Roger Brown

climber
Oceano, California
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:46am PT
I wonder what would happen if the UK nuked one of their strongholds, or just a location where they knew they were. Just a tactical nuke. Then told them "fuc with us again and we will turn another one into a sheet of glass" Hell, we nuked two cities full of people once. Not saying do it, just wondering.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:49am PT
The 9/11 President

The post-9/11 President

The next President.

Who ISIS is rooting for
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:55am PT

I wonder what would happen if the UK nuked one of their strongholds, or just a location where they knew they were. Just a tactical nuke. Then told them "fuc with us again and we will turn another one into a sheet of glass" Hell, we nuked two cities full of people once. Not saying do it, just wondering.


General LeMay?


Is that you, sir?


My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces.


There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 09:07am PT
Vaporize nuke and re nuke the bastards 'cause that is what they will do
If they get The bomb Sand ni. Sand nigg SAND NIGGERS !? YES I said THAT "N" word

Well, anyway....


No mystery why they hate us.
WBraun

climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 09:30am PT
As the continuing stream of Psyops keeps on trucking you people have continually been and become 0wned ......
Psilocyborg

climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 09:45am PT
there is no truth any more, just stories. Who can tell the best one?
WBraun

climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 10:05am PT
We seem to have tried everything else.

No you haven't at all.

Not even begun nor will you ever in the years in the future.

US has only done what has been planned all along.

You have been 0wned .....
WBraun

climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 10:07am PT
Hillary is the same stupid tool as the rest of the criminal cabal running the show ......
WBraun

climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 10:21am PT
On the surface everything looks a certain way.

But underneath ......
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 14, 2014 - 11:05am PT
Well, she probably wouldn't have sat with a sick expression on her face for seven minutes while the US was under the greatest terrorist attack in its history

she probably read emails knew about Benghazi but did nada!
bush didn't get any emails about such terror attack!

Lorenzo=troll!
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 11:11am PT
[quote]http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/17/world/africa/benghazi-suspect-captured/[/quote]

Bush never got Osamma, probably because he didn't want to offend his first investor.

You'd probably do better if you used news sources other that Rush Limbaugh an FOX.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 14, 2014 - 11:13am PT
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll did not bring good news for Democrats...

lorenxo sure thing dick head!
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 11:18am PT
Here's the WIKI

Arbusto Energy (sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil)[1] was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1979, for former US President George W. Bush by a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath. The company's chief financial officer was K. Michael Conaway, now a United States Congressman from Texas.[2]
It was later revealed that Bath made an investment of $50,000 while representing Salem bin Laden of the Saudi Binladin Group. This fact became controversial after the September 11, 2001 attacks due to Salem bin Laden being an older, half-brother of Osama bin Laden, who is alleged to have planned and financed the attacks. Upon Salem bin Laden's death in a 1988 airplane crash, in Texas, his interest in Arbusto (along with other Binladin Group assets), passed to Khalid bin Mahfouz.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 14, 2014 - 11:23am PT
need some more kool aid liberal drum circle will happen shortly
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 11:28am PT
Invading Afganistan was planned befor 9-11, also

Corroborating Cooley's findings, a book has just been published in Paris entitled Bin Laden, La Verite Interdite (Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. The book claims that the Bush administration held extensive talks with the Taliban regime from February to August this year with the aim of securing control over the vast oil and gas reserves in Central Asia through the construction of an oil pipeline from the rich oil fields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakstan, to Afghanistan, Pakistan and on to the Indian Ocean.

The authors, Jean Charles Brisard and Guiliaume Dasquie -- who have long experience in intelligence analysis -- claim that if the Taliban had facilitated the construction of the pipeline and US control over Central Asian oil and gas reserves, the US would have paved the way for economic assistance to, and political recognition of, the Taliban.

The Taliban's unwillingness to accept US conditions frustrated the Americans. According to the author: "At one moment during the negotiations the US representatives told the Taliban 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs'."

It is well established that the Bush administration, and President George W Bush's family in particular, have strong oil corporate links. Vice-president Dick Cheney was until the end of last year president of Halliburton, a company that provides services for the oil industry. National security advisor Condoleeza Rice was a manager for Chevron between 1991 and last year, while commerce secretary Donald Evans and energy secretary Stanley Abraham worked for oil giant Tom Brown.

As journalist John Pilger asserted, the Taliban were trained and supported by the CIA and SAS, Britain's intelligence agency. Soon after their takeover of Kabul in 1996, their leaders were entertained by the executives of Unocal in Houston, Texas.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline

You are being played for fools.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 12:42pm PT
I'm sure you rightwing extremists would love to see the "Fighting Palin's" as the First Famiily.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 14, 2014 - 03:36pm PT
(Allison Osious '84 or 5,maybe 6'magazine crap) who cares?

thats funny,
and trippy
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 05:10pm PT
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama has had two sleepless nights since learning that Rush Limbaugh praised his speech about Iraq and Syria this week, a White House source confirmed on Saturday.

According to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the President has been unable to sleep since Limbaugh complimented him on the air and has been seen pacing back and forth in the Oval Office in a way that aides described as “worrisome.”


“When he heard that [House Speaker John] Boehner and [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell liked his speech, he seemed to take that in stride,” the source said. “But this Limbaugh thing has pushed him over the edge.”

After midnight on Friday, the source said, a member of the White House cleaning staff entered the Oval Office and found President Obama in his bathrobe and pajamas, staring at himself in a mirror.

“What have I done?” the President reportedly said to himself.
WBraun

climber
Sep 14, 2014 - 06:19pm PT
And on another front the hacker group anonymous hacked into the presidents nuclear briefcase and disabled all his launch codes
after reading all the posts by supertop warmongers wanting to nuke the entire mideast region .....
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:00pm PT
Are you saying the football has been disabled...?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 14, 2014 - 08:02pm PT
after reading all the posts by supertop warmongers wanting to nuke the entire mideast region .....

I wouldn't worry about that too much.


The Supertops haven't yet figured out that a quarter of our imported oil is coming from the region they want to turn to glass.

All without compensating the Iraqis.

The Bush plutocrats may be stupid, but not THAT stupid.
Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Sep 14, 2014 - 09:44pm PT
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
Sep 14, 2014 - 10:41pm PT
Crap, I thought this was the Every Picture Tells A Story thread.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 09:18am PT
Alright, the weekend drunks and dullards have had their 15 minutes, now back to informed, thoughtful discourse. Eh?

If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119433/if-isis-not-islamic-then-inquisition-was-not-catholic?

.....

Ken,

I do not believe that such an attack would result in our surrendering the country to the perps. (Of course not, Ken, "our surrendering" was never and would never be the issue. Or am I not getting a sarcasm here?) In any case, ISIS does not have these. (Of course, not yet. But how about next week or next year?)

Where's there's a ($20M) will, there's (probably) a way.

Those that do have them are totally aware of what would result. (Well, here I think you're talking about formal states, long established, with much too lose. ISIS is not of this category.)

Understanding that all nukes have signatures that show where they were made, that cannot be faked, what would we do if a bomb detonated that had the signature of Israel or another allied power? (Why an allied power? Let's say Russia. Well we certainly wouldn't retaliate in kind against Russia. Such a bomb from Russia or really anywhere else identified by "signature" could easily - it's not so hard given the money and expertise - have been cobbled together through smuggling of nuclear material, employing out of work Cold War engineers, slush funds, etc..)

Did you see the film, Sum of All Fears? It's a fair metaphorical/ mythical template for this discussion, I'd say.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 15, 2014 - 09:22am PT

If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic.

RIGHT! and neither involve God's blessing..

Burpp!
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 09:27am PT
Please, save it for the weekend.

Go study. You're an embarrassment.
WBraun

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 09:27am PT
Most Americans are just plain too stupid to ever get it.

fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 15, 2014 - 10:19am PT
You've got to include the sith-lord Cheney himself in that picture...
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 15, 2014 - 10:20am PT
I do not believe that such an attack would result in our surrendering the country to the perps. (Of course not, Ken, "our surrendering" was never and would never be the issue.) In any case, ISIS does not have these. (Of course, not yet. But how about next week or next year?)

This is what's known as a slippery slope. It is an excuse for genocide upon anyone, anywhere, at any time.

And getting a nuke is not such an easy thing. Do you really think that this has not been tried? Do you really think that there is not a program designed to thwart exactly this activity?

Although somewhat dated, this paper from RAND (which has been updated into a book), lays out the essential issues:

http://www.prgs.edu/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7119.pdf

In addition, and I'll bet you have not thought this out, how would you actually spend your $20m? Do you think it would be as easy as an email to Ed? Advertise on Craigslist? I heard one estimate that for every real contact, there are 99 "bait" contacts, touching any one of which will result in a knock on your door, or a hellfire down your chimney.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 15, 2014 - 10:30am PT
Another approach to defeating them:

http://www.rand.org/blog/2014/09/to-defeat-the-islamic-state-follow-the-money.html

Or, a look at what has actually worked to overcome insurgencies since WWII:

http://www.rand.org/blog/2014/09/a-broad-approach-to-countering-the-islamic-state.html
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 15, 2014 - 10:31am PT
Great graphic novel plot, Chief. Thanks.

Reckon we'll cross that decommissioned floating bridge, er, blocked tunnel, if and when we come to it.

Most of us Washingtonians realize that a major earthquake with associated glacial collapse/lahars and tsunamis is probably our most likely future disaster scenario.

Ask the commander of our state's National Guard what keeps him up at night, but then, what the hell would he know?

Yes, the Japanese were not nice in their occupation - I'm actually quite familiar with the history of both that war and Vietnam, but thanks for the kiddy lesson - and that does not justify indiscriminate killing of civilians en mass.

Not to me, anyway.

YMMV.

So, fast forwarding to the present - are you proposing we indiscriminately kill civilians in the ME in a 'baby with the bathwater' maneuver because ISIS is SUCH A DIFFERENT KIND OF THREAT FROM ANY WE'VE FACED!!!!????

Or just celebrating the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in the past?

Or is it just pointless puffery (WATCH OUT, SEATTLE! YOU'RE NEXT!!!)


You really can't make this stuff up.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 10:37am PT
Well, I hear you. But I still remember Condolezza Rice immediately post 9/11... "None of us ever imagined this." I suppose it could've been just a figure of speech though. Also, how many times post 9/11 did we hear this attack called "sophisticated" or "very sophisticated"?

Well, many even years before (incl myself) "imagined" it easily as a real-world possibility not so unlikely. Heck, it was even in the movies for 10+ years! Also, at least to anyone above avg in intelligence with tech know-how, it just was NOT "sophisticated" at all neither.

These things are simply a lot easier to pull off - esp where a passionate ideology, money and technical know-how come together - than many think.

We'll see.

.....

That comment by Lindsey Graham this weekend: We may all get killed by ISIS... was pretty whacko, though. If you haven't seen it, you should. Shows what we're dealing with on all sides, I'd say.
Degaine

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 11:04am PT
Wow Werner,

Given your post history of calling everybody in here both stupid and sheeple, I'm surprised that you would be so gullible, ignorant, and well, stupid, as to think that AIPAC has any influence over anything.

I figured that you'd see through that.

Or may you're just another "Elders of Zion" kind of f*#king idiot.
WBraun

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 12:21pm PT
Israel and USA number one terrorists on the planet.

You've been 0wened by their psyops.

Most everyone in Washington DC already knows this .......
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 15, 2014 - 12:46pm PT
Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Degaine

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 12:53pm PT
Werner,

You're the one who's owned.

What does AIPAC have to do with your statement about the US and Israel?

Or are you just going to continue with the centuries old meme that "it's the Jews' fault"?

It doesn't take much research to understand that AIPAC has absolutely no influence on US policy whatsoever (nor does any other Jewish lobby). Here, I'll help, start by reading Organski's "36 billion dollar bargain", the paperback costs probably $8 at your local used book store. $8 to buy yourself a clue, that's pretty cheap!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 15, 2014 - 01:08pm PT
BLUEBLOCR
thats the way... BRRUPP right back at ya
and if you were missing it ...
I delete when it is really bad this just isn't that, cranky and swilly, tippsey for sure:



So Sundays for me are hangover family daze
,
Kids soccer games and then a stop at a Shrine, some Grocery shopping.

unload all the stuff, then I try to go do Fixed line laps on some choss that's all is mine. (No one else around, in ear shot of a shooting range,bang bang all the time, and a hiway so near you hear the swoosh,as trucks speed by, so it would be a sport crag if it gets out where it is at, I do not bolt and it has good natural pro at that)

I am a Buddhist ... well not today, Hell NO.

I've got kids, Dingus, no I won't let them go,

BLOW them all UP now ! over there !, what ever you want to call them
Sand Negro’s evil darky's I’m right though ex nomadic camel jockeys
(Allison Oisisous '84 or 5,maybe 6'magazine crap) who cares?

They will steal the teeth right out of your head while you sleep....
That’s first hand from Ramrod the ex Hells Angel a friend of the Dead, who went in '72 Nothing has changed with the bad eggs over there.
So I'll post and say that Israel or Britain or the good!? U.S. of A

Has a Nuke per head and the count is three, as of today.
.
Also the listening ruskies in Cuba should get a conventional bomb up the pooper
of some ship where ever it lays, there, and in moscow, the homeland of Russia also which is not in the Ukraine
But turn the sand and the N's there to Glass, make it glow, send cruise missiles.
Why twice 'cause that's what they do!: Wait for the rescuers and then get them too.
I know better than most the ephed up history that has got us here what little I believe in… cruise missile them now our economy will fall but the other choice is no no choice at all.
Like Bluering and Roger Brown, the Crankster, and alot more, the stuff that those clowns have done is repugnant yo.well thats it from the Peace GNO just tuff to take the crap from such heroes hoho ho ho ho.

BLUEBLOCR,
scrubbing bubbles, I would say more, but as I have said,
I have sperm residuals,
So home work COMES first ....SEE what I'm building .....and in this at least I 'll call on the Wern to remember with pride...
WBraun

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 01:11pm PT
Keep kissing the ring of your beloved terrorist aszhole.

Even Obama can't stand him. Even 60% of Israel can't stand this aszhole either.


Degaine

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 01:32pm PT
Werner,

You don't think much for yourself, do you?

Not very inquisitive either, right?

Like I suggested, just do even the tiniest amount of research and get back to me.
WBraun

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 01:36pm PT
Research?

Quit projecting your nonsense at people you don't know.

I've been researching for over 20 years with thousands of hours.

Keep kissing the ring ....

Degaine

climber
Sep 15, 2014 - 01:57pm PT
Funny comment about projecting considering that you do it in just about every other post. How about you quit projecting?

Thousands of hours of research over 20 years and you still don't have a clue as to why the US supports Israel.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 16, 2014 - 09:21am PT
A powerful motivator... of ISIS... in a single belief...
[Muhammad] told us to "live in this world as if you are a stranger or a traveler", meaning that we always have to remember that LIFE doesn't stop here. We only live this life to fulfill the next. -Khidr Nasir

ironically posted, as a comment, at a School of Life video...

Heidegger in the Kitchen,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpenjeR6BXE

.....

As an aside, Muhammad's wives...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%27s_wives

Wow.
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 16, 2014 - 09:34am PT
I'm with Werner on this. It's a never ending circus of schlock. Replace one group with another, same story, year after year. Same theft of our dollars. "Oh it's different this time". Really. Not. It's all a pack of lies.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 09:51am PT
Yes, Mohammad's wives:

"The main objectives of Muhammad's marriages can be divided into four.[7]

Helping out the widows of his companions.

Creating family bonds between him and his companions (Muhammad married the daughters of Abu Bakr and Umar, whereas Uthman and Ali married his daughters. He therefore had family bonds with all the first four Caliphs).

Spreading the message by uniting different clans through marriage.

Increasing credibility and sources for conveying his private family life. If he only had one wife, then it would have been a tremendous responsibility on her to convey Muhammad's private acts of worship and family life, and people would try to discredit her to destroy the credibility of these practices. However, with multiple wives, there were a lot more sources to the knowledge, making it more difficult to discredit. Therefore his marriages gave more women the opportunity to learn and teach the matters of his private life.

Muhammad's first marriage was at the age of 25 to the 40-year old Khadijah (a successful merchant (sic)). He was married to one woman until the age of 50, after which he is believed to have had multiple wives for the four reasons explained above. With the exception of Aisha, Muhammad only married widows and divorced women."

Prior to Muhammad, women had no rights in the region - which was a hodgepodge of competing warlords and tribes. They were chattle. Muhammad instituted many reforms that protected the rights of women and their property (perhaps inspired by his first wife, herself a powerful and successful woman). He also employed marriage successfully to unite an otherwise contentious region. Both were necessary to institute the rule of law and thus any reforms at all.

One should consider historical context when attempting to understand the life of a historical figure. It's an intellectual honesty thing.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:01am PT
Prior to Muhammad, women had no rights in the region - which was a hodgepodge of competing warlords and tribes. They were chattle. Muhammad instituted many reforms that protected the rights of women and their property (perhaps inspired by his first wife, herself a powerful and successful woman).

You do realize the contradictory nature of this statement don't cha!

Lets see you rationalize your way out of this one.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:13am PT
I would suggest you do your own research on Aisha versus women in the region during her time. it's actually very interesting history.

You probably won't, but that's cool. You've got your opinions and you're standing by them - and that's what's important.

I might have this discussion with others, but not you. You're a bit of a one note song, and that gets pretty boring, pretty quickly.

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:27am PT
11 wives? Chump change.

The bible tells us Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Then he still felt a compulsion to get some on the side with the Queen of Sheba.

A bit more than Moses' two and Abraham's three wives, though they also took concubines.
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:42am PT
this concubine business is interesting
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:44am PT
I would suggest you do your own research on Aisha versus women in the region during her time. it's actually very interesting history.

Maybe better not to. She married Muhammad at age six or seven and the marriage was consummated at age 9 or 10, according to the chronicler Ibn Hisham.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:46am PT
It hardly matters what the Koran says as it seems to be honored mainly in
the breech (if it really is a women's empowerment treatise).
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:52am PT
Sorry, I meant Khadijah (wealthy merchant lady), not Aisha.

With 13 wives, it's hard to keep that action straight!

The guy was WAY more interesting than Jesus - plus, there's plenty of evidence that he actually existed, so there's that, too.

It's intellectually disingenuous to compare women's rights under Muhammad to women's rights in America today (which, BTW, still have some serious issues).

A comparison of women's rights across what is now Saudi Arabia before and at the end of Muhammad's rule is the only analysis that makes any sense.

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:53am PT
The bible isn't exactly a model for women's equality.

1 Corinthians 14:34-36
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Or better yet:

Exodus 21:7
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are..
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:01am PT
This forum can provide an interesting and, at times, intimate window into the minds of others.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:02am PT
No worries, fellow climbers!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/16/the-islamic-state-will-probably-be-defeated-but-its-not-thanks-to-president-obama/

re: sustainable ideologies

.....

then the NSA will have to come pick up poor Mr. Tvash

LOL!

.....

There's no doubt, were I female (science-passionate of course), I'd be 10 times the post-religious RENEGADE I am now. So it's a COMPLETE mystery to see so many females - WOMEN- over at the Guardian or Salon defending Islam as the "religion of peace" and whatever else.

By analogy, I hope you like it: If you had a car with a thousand out-of-date parts let alone two or three (esp in a crucial or fundamental role of some kind relating to its basic function) would this be acceptable to you? I don't think so.

Yet Islam is acceptable. Yet Islam is defended.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:17am PT
Re: sustainable ideologies:

The Republican Party was founded with the slogan

Early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan "free labor, free land, free men"

Now they own all the land , are in favor of Cheap labor, and want to be able to detain Latino looking people on suspicion of illegal immigration on a culture that was there before they were.

Ideology is adaptable.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:17am PT
Perhaps some women are particularly aware of broad brush bigotry in whatever form it takes.

If I were a woman, I'd...not presume to speak for 'women'. I've heard they come in individual packages.

And I'd probably skip the shorts. Too damn furry.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:32am PT
Perhaps some women are particularly aware of broad brush bigotry in whatever form it takes.

I wonder if Malala would agree. I know Ayaan Hirsi Ali would not.

Speaking of bigotry...

How about the soft "bigotry of low expectations" Bill Maher (to Charlie Rose) recently spoke of?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/685379

Even if you've already seen it, circa 12 minute mark, it's worth seeing again. Be sure to take notes, then restudy them over a few days. Enlightenment!

.....

re: free pass for muslims, even jihadis

I might be mistaken, but if they were beheading people in Vatican City (Bill Maher imagery), I think tvash would be freaking out.
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:45am PT
The Covert Origins of ISIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:45am PT
wonder if Malala would agree.

Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for Christian Heresey and cross dressing ( look up the charges)
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:46am PT
I have high expectations for egalitarianism in our society.

I just identify my opposition as people who are actively working against that vision, rather than ALL ...ists or ...ians, as you do.

Data driven wins the day. Less work, more allies.

Damn all of Islam, and you alienate the huge faction of Islam seeking to reform it from within.

That's a strategy that is doomed to fail.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:54am PT
Nope. You've consistently tried to pigeon hole those libs who don't think like you, who instead think like me, in something of the crazed Lindsey Graham - the sky is falling! - camp. That is why you've been getting the blowback. You need to wake up and realize you do NOT know everything there is to know either about the ME or militant Islam or more generally about what it means to be a fundamentalist Abrahamic adherent.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 16, 2014 - 11:57am PT
I DON'T????!!!!

={:O
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 16, 2014 - 04:19pm PT
war boners are popping:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/politics/isis-congress/
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 16, 2014 - 05:19pm PT
Here's the problem. Liquor prices are going outta sight in Baghdad.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-15/islamic-state-makes-drink-to-forget-hard-for-baghdad-beer-lovers.html

Now it's on like Donkey Kong

beer-drinkers have it tough. Already shot at and persecuted, they have found prices soaring since Islamic State militants seized large swaths of northern Iraq in June and barred alcohol.

Liquor shipments heading to the Iraqi capital must bypass Islamic State territory and instead run the gauntlet of Shiite militia check-points, where gunmen demand money for each truck, according to traders. The price of a can of Heineken has surged from $1 to $5, and a bottle of the popular moonshine whiskey Black Jack has jumped from $15 to $50.

“Drinking is our only way to forget about the mayhem, but it’s become very expensive,” said businessman Laith Nadhum, 42, by phone from Baghdad.



High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 16, 2014 - 05:33pm PT
Hey it's as if most of this one was written just for tvash and his camp...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/world/europe/turkey-is-a-steady-source-of-isis-recruits.html?_r=0

Ah.... Turkey: Land of Moderates.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 16, 2014 - 08:24pm PT
Head chopping probably. Or crucifixion.
dirtbag

climber
Sep 16, 2014 - 08:25pm PT
Obama is a member.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 16, 2014 - 08:28pm PT
once mighty whitey is back in office, things will be better.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 16, 2014 - 08:33pm PT
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 16, 2014 - 09:10pm PT

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Sep 16, 2014 - 11:54am PT
Nope. You've consistently tried to pigeon hole those libs who don't think like you, who instead think like me, You need to wake up and realize you do NOT know everything there is to know either about the ME or militant Islam or more generally about what it means to be a fundamentalist Abrahamic adherent.

YEA! Listen to Corny, he's seen ALL the video's. Plus he used to be catholic!
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 16, 2014 - 10:02pm PT
TGT, YOU REALLY SHOULD LOOK at the Christian versions before you post crap like that.

"Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came to him and said, 'You too were with Jesus the Galilean.'
But he denied it before them all, saying, 'I do not know what you are talking about.'
When he had gone out to the gateway, another servant-girl saw him and said to those who were there, 'This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.'
And again he denied it with an oath, 'I do not know the man.'
A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, 'Surely you too are one of them - for even the way you talk gives you away.'
Then he began to curse and swear, 'I do not know the man!'" (Matthew 26:69-74).
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 17, 2014 - 03:05am PT
It will be interesting to see what happens the first time they miss payroll.

or get captured

[Click to View YouTube Video]
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 06:16am PT
Nice article, HFCS. Don't fret, your critics will be distracted by the Benghazi hearings soon enough.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 08:14am PT
Thanks, Crankster. Hope you saw the Bill Maher Charlie Rose short on pbs recently. Maher hit the nail on the head.

Here's another that does the job too...



It's like Maher says in response to his critics (mostly from Fox News): I'm critical of America because I love America. Same here: I'm critical of a far left liberal sector because I love liberal democracy. But its far far left has failed to get its head in the game on this one. Just as this Jesus and Mo points out.

The silver lining to all this: We're witnessing "reformation" - a makeover - come to Islam, Abrahamic religion's most primitive.


http://leftfootforward.org/2014/09/by-denouncing-isis-as-not-muslims-moderate-muslims-risk-making-things-worse/

re: takfir the takfiris

Takfirism is the root and enabler of all modern jihadism; takfirist doctrine enables any ‘true’ Muslim to label those with a rival interpretation of Islam as no longer Muslim.

This, combined with traditional Islamic jurisprudence that mandates death for apostates, is taken by jihadists as an open license to denounce and then kill their enemies.

A better approach is to accept that Islamist extremists, however distasteful their view of Islam, remain Muslims, however much other Muslims, and non-Muslims, might dislike their version of Islam.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 17, 2014 - 08:44am PT
good link ^^^

A better approach is to accept that Islamist extremists, however distasteful their view of Islam, remain Muslims, however much other Muslims, and non-Muslims, might dislike their version of Islam.

Traditionally, as long as a Muslim accepted the existence of a single God and that Mohammed was his final prophet, then he/she was a Muslim. Ironically, a return to this age-old ‘big tent’ approach – that both jihadists and ‘moderates’ are now trying to hastily jettison – is arguably a better way to tackle extremism than seeking to ‘takfir the takfiris’.

Sounds like a stupid PC lie when people say the IS is not Muslim. I hear a lie and my brain turns off.

Better to let them sort this out amoungst themselves. We jump in and everybody dogpiles on us.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 08:46am PT
Better to let them sort this out amoungst themselves. We jump in and everybody dogpiles on us.

Yes, I think this is best strategy.

I agree, (1) I don't think what they offer is a sustainable ideology (thank goodness English has this word or god-forbid we might have to call it "religion" lol!) in 21st century modernity; and (2) anytime down the road they congregate (into a community, colony, brigade, whatever) we can surgically strike them.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 08:47am PT
We jump in and everybody dogpiles on us.

That's why we have been a godsend, pardon the pun, to them. Prior to our
arrival they were perfectly content to beat on each other ad nauseum. We're
extra credit and prolly worth a few more virgins in the Big Harem In The Sky.
WBraun

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:00am PT
ISIS can be taken out in 2 weeks easily.

You'll never see happen.

ISIS is intelligence agencies creation by US, Briton, Israel etc. to ultimately take down Syria and then Iran.

Once that's completed all the bogey men are then surgically taken out.

Psyops is doing the perfect job just by your reactions.

Psyops works in conjunction with media, social networks conspiracy sites etc etc.

You will not be able to stop this nightmare thru your corrupt political system.

We are 0wened by them.

The diluted politards will yammer endless opposite of what is really going on thru the main stream corrupt media.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:37am PT
I think, at the end of the day, there will be an Islamic State. Better to have it within the existing Islamic World, than to have it chewing around the edges, in the Balkans or Africa or the Far East.

The Islamic ideology isn't something you just bomb out of existence. Would look like Gaza, with the piles of dead women and children.

What's grinding my gears, is when they call one of these guys an "American". Sorry, they were obviously never one of us. Their parents never raised them to assimilate.

Therein lies what we do need to do. We need a mechanism to deport them and the people that raised them to the Islamic State. Sooner we recognize it, the better.
WBraun

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:42am PT
at the end of the day, there will be an Islamic State

The Islamic Puppet State of American, Britain etc industrial imperialism for world dominance of natural resources.

This is the iron age, the age of hypocrisy and quarrel.

There's no escape for those who can't see this ......
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:44am PT
Werner, you sound pretty ashamed to be an American.

I'm curious where you're wishing to move to.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:46am PT
Survival, you silly, he doesn't need to escape.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:49am PT
WBraun

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:49am PT
Reilly

Survival is a very nice true patriot and a very good man.

He misunderstands at times the real intentions of people and then gets upset.

There's no escape ... :-)
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:52am PT
I try not to get angry. But sometimes I suck failsauce.

So I take it you're going to stay in America then?.......


I love my country. I wish we could do better much of the time.

But when it comes right down to it, there's no place greater than the good ol' USA.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 17, 2014 - 09:59am PT
there's no place greater than the good ol' USA.

Now you've pissed off Tami and Brennan! Sheesh!
WBraun

climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 10:04am PT
lol ^^^

Survival ... it's good we have good fighting men like you.

America would be lost a long time ago without men like you ......
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 17, 2014 - 11:15am PT
Thank you Werner, I really mean that.

I tried to sign back up, but at 53 they wouldn't have me, even with my background. Dumb f*#kers, I can still teach survival as well as I ever did.....HA!!
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Sep 17, 2014 - 11:24am PT
Renouncing US Citizenship - Ken O'Keefe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ckd3orvDeE
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 17, 2014 - 11:31am PT
ISIS can be taken out in 2 weeks easily.

You'll never see happen.

ISIS is intelligence agencies creation by US, Briton, Israel etc. to ultimately take down Syria and then Iran.

Once that's completed all the bogey men are then surgically taken out.

Psyops is doing the perfect job just by your reactions.

Psyops works in conjunction with media, social networks conspiracy sites etc etc.

You will not be able to stop this nightmare thru your corrupt political system.

We are 0wened by them.

The diluted politards will yammer endless opposite of what is really going on thru the main stream corrupt media.

Correct.

And through a little extrapolation.... one might start to question everything. And we should.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 17, 2014 - 11:49am PT
Thanks DMT, I hope to climb with you again soon.






For no one in particular: F*#k Ken O'Keefe.

Anybody notice that he became an Irish citizen, not Afghan, Iraqi, Liberian, Congolese, Burundian, or whatever??
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 17, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
How the hell can you FAIL to renounce your citizenship TWICE?

That guy is stupider than Bush.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 17, 2014 - 04:20pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 17, 2014 - 04:54pm PT

Irish!

FAK! Can't shake em!

Dublin up on the strikes. Send in the drones!

DMT

Yeh, 'cause everybody is terrified of the Irish fighting prowess....

DUCK! Here comes a shillelagh.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
^^^how dare you say that!!!
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:44pm PT
^^^
Let's see if I can translate this from the long (winded) version.

The US is going to attack ISIS in Iraq and Syria solely because they want the oil.

Naive.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 17, 2014 - 07:52pm PT
Let's start a war...Give guns to the fags...
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 18, 2014 - 08:57am PT
Baghdad, Sep 16 (IANS/EFE) At least 14 members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were killed Tuesday near Baghdad when a rocket whose warhead they were filling with chlorine gas exploded.

Iraqi security officials said seven more IS militants were injured in the incident, which occurred near the town of al-Dhuluiya, about 90 km north of Baghdad.

Al-Dhuluiya was also where four members of the Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen suffered symptoms of asphyxiation after inhaling chlorine gas released by two improvised explosive devices.

It was the first time that chlorine has been used as a weapon in Iraq, although it is not uncommon in neighbouring Syria, where the regime's use of it has been denounced by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Meanwhile, Iraqi troops killed 18 jihadists and destroyed five of their vehicles in clashes at the Biji refinery, Iraq's largest.

At the same time, Kurdish peshmerga troops regained control of three villages in Qara Teba, in the eastern Diyala province, which had been overrun by the IS. Three IS militants and four Kurdish soldiers were wounded in the fighting.

These clashes came a few hours after US warplanes launched their first bombing raids at IS positions near Baghdad since an international conference wrapped in Paris Monday after a number of world leaders pledged to defeat and destroy the IS.

--IANS/EFE
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/14-is-militants-killed-as-their-rocket-explodes-114091601405_1.html
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:32am PT
I wonder what the world would look like if fossil fuels had never been utilized. These problems wouldn't exist.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:36am PT
fewer trees.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:36am PT
There would probably be a lot fewer of us to practice that greed.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:41am PT
I wonder what the world would look like if fossil fuels had never been utilized.

Ghengis Khan didn't need no stinkin' oil!
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 10:07am PT
To paraphrase what a friend told me:

We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.
We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like.
We don’t like Assad in Syria and we support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him.
We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS.
So some of our friends support our enemies. Some enemies are now our friends and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose.
We don't want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win. If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they could be replaced by people we like even less.

Yes, now it makes perfect sense.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 18, 2014 - 10:54am PT
Hard to say with so much propaganda out there but some of this seems realistic....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state

WBraun

climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 11:20am PT
and if anyone says they will come here and terrorize us

Stupid Americans your own govt is already terrorizing you in so many passive aggressive ways.

They created ISIS and if they want they'll bring them here and let em loose to create more fear to give them more control over you stupid sheep.

Stupid Americans easily fall for stupid false flags ......

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 11:39am PT
"Well.....it's GO TIME"

I'M LOCKED AND LOADED!





You really can't make this stuff up.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 18, 2014 - 11:49am PT
Ghengis Kahn didn't need no stinkin' oil


Hahaha.

One of the biggest oil fields in the Gulf of a Mexico has his name attached.

http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/genghiskhan/

And his grandson was cool with the stuff

Marco Polo described paper money, unknown in Venice, but which had been used by the Chinese for more than a thousand years. He described a spring that gushed a stream of oil. The oil was said to be tasteless, but good for burning. Marco may have been describing petroleum, or crude oil, which is now used to make gasoline, plastic and other products.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 18, 2014 - 11:49am PT
The only thing I'm fearful of is the next warmonger coming into office.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 12:02pm PT
I'll be the first to confess that I'm not as up on my Australian law enforcement actions as I could be.

So, if there is an ISIS attack in the US of A, I'm curious to know what you plan on actually doing about it - you know, specifically?

More to the point, have your run said plan past your peeps?

WBraun

climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 12:06pm PT
Nothing said by Obama or any member of his government or any influential voice in Congress has signaled any pullback in Washington’s drive for hegemony over the world.

The US economy is now dependent on looting and plunder, and Washington’s hegemony is essential to this corrupted form of capitalism.

Stooopid Americans .....
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 18, 2014 - 12:14pm PT


The US economy is now dependent on looting and plunder, and Washington’s hegemony is essential to this corrupted form of capitalism.

Stooopid Americans .....

And the Stooopid part is?...

Name a civilization that wasn't based on plunder.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 18, 2014 - 01:08pm PT
ISIS is part real and part propaganda. Real in the sense that there are innoncent people being murdered.

The command, coordination, and control of such forces requires large amounts of money, materials, and experience. With a fledgling "islamic jihad" attacking blitzkreig-style across hundreds of miles of harsh terrain where are these massive supply lines. Where are the injured "ISIS" fighters taken? Are all of these invisible suddenly to Western technical superiority?

Read MSM (i.e. cnn.com) as all lies until proven otherwise. Harder and harder to untwist the truth from the lies, esp when these false tales are spun in an area as complex as the ME.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 18, 2014 - 01:09pm PT
Who is ISIS?

They definitely BELIEVE they are creating the caliphate.

They're definitely tougher than most Saudis I lived around for four years.

They die just like everyone else.

They're afraid of female Peshmerga, because they can't get into paradise if they're killed by a woman.

They deserve all the love from USAF and Navy angels that they're getting right now.

Who is behind the scenes pulling all the strings I couldn't tell you. Don't really care. They just need to be dead, a lot, in my opinion.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 18, 2014 - 01:15pm PT
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/death-threats-sydney-church-islamic-state

wow, Australia must be an Ialamic hotbed. A warning about letting immigration get out of control. Controlling immigration is something we can do here. Dunno why Obama doesn't have this as part of his plan.

Church-goers in Sydney’s west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag.


The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window.

A priest from the church told AAP the people in the car threatened to “kill the Christians” and slaughter their children.


TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 18, 2014 - 01:31pm PT
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/terror-raids-fanatics-plotted-to-behead-an-innocent/story-fni0cx12-1227062152150?nk=54360d671e46d00662e5c1120d4e3e16#itm=newscomau|news|ncam-story-body-link|2|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegr
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 02:35pm PT
Perhaps the Australian police should handle this. Just a thought.

You've got to love the pic of the Islamic flag - with AK47 - obviously taken in the ME, not Australia. Thaaaat's the journalism we've come to know and love in the modern world.

Iranians yelled "death to America" in our very own streets in protest of the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes in 1988.

Funny...nobody freaked out.






Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Sep 18, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
little evidence that Marco Polo existed and none that he travelled.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 18, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
All right yous guys, you heard the man. Tvash said we can't talk amongst
ourselves any more, the Caliphate won't have it.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 02:41pm PT
Public forum. Its a choice.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 18, 2014 - 02:42pm PT
meanwhile, Boku Harem, has a major Nigerian city surrounded. Guess we can't expect much mercy.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 03:05pm PT
So far, no one has presented any compelling evidence to indicate that ISIS is America's problem to solve.

WBraun

climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
compelling evidence to indicate that ISIS is America's problem to solve.

If you can't see that then you don't belong on this planet as a human being.

In your next life you will become dog and your master will abuse you ......
chill

climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
Sep 18, 2014 - 03:15pm PT
If you can't see that then you don't belong on this planet as a human being.

In your next life you will become dog and your master will abuse you ......

Werner - maybe you need to dial back the caffiene.
WBraun

climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
It's Americas problem.

America started it and needs to take full responsibility for its stupid actions.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 18, 2014 - 03:27pm PT
That I dont belong on this planet has been posited before, yet here I am.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 18, 2014 - 05:55pm PT
Nothing secular about them.

http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/culture/exclusive-qa-with-former-islamic-state-member_26696
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 18, 2014 - 06:06pm PT
It's Americas problem.

America started it and needs to take full responsibility for its stupid actions.

It's much bigger that "America's" problem. Although there are plenty here that should be hung for their crimes.

Israel, our evil beheading 'friends' in SA(but those beheadings are ok), puppets in Jordan, etc...
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 06:50pm PT

America started it and needs to take full responsibility for its stupid actions.

No, and no.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 18, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
The echo extends north...
http://globalnews.ca/news/1566794/canada-sends-69-special-forces-to-iraq-to-advise-in-fight-against-isis/
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:09pm PT
Suppose if it is inevitable that ISIS is coming to America.
They're not. But what if. Which video game should I be
playing to get the skills for that block to block
warfare crap they used to conquer all that territory?
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:16pm PT
Ron, you've become boring!
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
Meanwhile, ISIS is stealing oil from Kurds,Iraqis and Syrian and selling it off to its customer

http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/isis-oil/
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
USA will arm Kurds to fix ISIS(L).

In 2020 will need to arm someone else to handle the Kurds.


Whatever we do winds up being another verse in the song "I know an old woman who swallowed a fly."


We get down in the trenches with some problem or other like this and feel we have no choice but to resolve it with force.

But just like beating a child. All you do is teach someone that force wins. So it's what they do later to someone else.


Some day we'll get real leadership that can rise about this.


It's not the stupid saps doing the beheadings. It's the azzholes selling weapons and goading them on.

Some mid east weapon trader is making big bank.
This means some upper class American weapon trader is going to make even bigger bank.

The stupid terrorist is just a tool of the military industrial complex. Everything he does just brings him closer to his own demise. It's illogical. He's being manipulated.

climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Sep 18, 2014 - 09:36pm PT
The stupid terrorist is just a tool of the military industrial complex. Everything he does just brings him closer to his own demise. It's illogical. He's being manipulated.

Now that is a very interesting point Spider. I'm sure there is a lot to what you say.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 18, 2014 - 11:47pm PT

little evidence that Marco Polo existed and none that he travelled.
Interesting claims, Wayne, though those claims themselves don't have much to back them. . I guess in your view Marco is where Jesus is and slightly above where Moses, David, and Solomon are on the credibility scale.



What really isn't in question is that the Chinese were using oil and gas to boil down Brine 2000 years ago for a commodity that was worth more by weight than gold at the time. The same wells that produced the brine for salt sometimes hit petroleum caches, which fueled the fires.

Here is a nice little piece from our friends at Energy and Petroleum magazine.

http://www.epmag.com/Production-Drilling/Ancient-Chinese-drilling_4266

2,000 year-old Sichuan salt industry has drilled approximately 130,000 brine and gas wells, with 10% of those in the immediate Zigong area. Zigong has a cumulative gas production over this period of over 1.06 Tcf. The area continues to be a major salt producer, and many of the historical wells are still in production.
Amazing that a guy in the 13 th century could describe the process so well when he probably didn't exist, and no other westerners ever mentioned anything about it.

We westerners were still rooting for grubs 2000 y.a.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 19, 2014 - 12:03am PT
The stupid terrorist is just a tool of the military industrial complex. Everything he does just brings him closer to his own demise. It's illogical. He's being manipulated.

Get with it. That's not how stooopid is spelt on the Taco.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 19, 2014 - 09:32am PT
Some mid east weapon trader is making big bank.
This means some upper class American weapon trader is going to make even bigger bank.

A good example are these guys:


They are an investment group that own shares in Hughes aircraft, Vought, General dynamics, and United Defence. Members of the group include the Bush family, three defence secretaries under Bush and Reagan, the Saudi Royal family, and until it got embarrassing, Shafiq Bin Laden, older brother of a freedom fighter trained by the CIA. You might have heard of him.

But you don't actually have to sell weapons to make money. United Defence won a bid to supply these things to the U.S. Army in the early Bush jr years. It was aptly called the Crusader.


Right after 9-11 the program was cancelled as being obsolete and redundant, but not before Carlisle sold off for $850 million.


Here's a picture of Shafiq and Ghw Bush the day before 9-11



I bet the meeting they had in DC a day later was a little awkward.

George: " hey Shafiq! How's the family?"

Shafiq: "Smashing, George. Is jr. busy?"
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 19, 2014 - 10:17am PT
Yes, there are many players with various competing and interlocking layers of interest. Lots of money flowing lots of directions for sure.

But giant overarching conspiracies with the Jews and the Bilder-what-ever-the-f*#k-group behind it all?

I don't believe any of that sh#t for a skinny New York minute. Same old spurling human cesspool of making it up as we go.

Too many humans going too many directions for it all to be one big puppet show. Anybody who believes all the "It's all part of the plan" BS, has never spent enough time trying to herd climbers.....
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 19, 2014 - 10:22am PT
And Ron will make bank stuffing the diaper heads for display at the Reno Airport...
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 19, 2014 - 07:17pm PT
http://sofrep.com/37048/first-complex-attack-isis-baghdad/
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 19, 2014 - 07:33pm PT
Glanton...get off the floor and quit laughing at the Chief...he's short but not that funny...
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 19, 2014 - 07:35pm PT
Same church ,

different pew.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iranian-blogger-found-guilty-of-insulting-prophet-mohammad-on-facebook-sentenced-to-death-9741572.html
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 19, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
http://www.libyaherald.com/2014/09/18/brother-of-human-rights-activist-farida-allaghi-survives-tripoli-attack-friend-slain/#axzz3DiJDeNtZ
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human rights are not "islamic"
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 19, 2014 - 08:06pm PT
Murder, it's the "islamic"thing to do.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1132736/dean-of-ku-islamic-studies-department-shot-dead

(not "islamic" enough)


I can find a dozen of these stories every day in 5 minutes.

Be happy,

make a video,

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Sentence?

91 lashes.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6258790/iran-pharrell-happy-video-jail-sentence
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 19, 2014 - 09:33pm PT

Business at any cost.

It's the white thing to do.

Hmmmm. i never thought of it as a white thing.. i do think the Chinese are proving to be better at it.

Come'on Bro,,,,,,,

Don''''''t stoop to the stoopid.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 19, 2014 - 10:13pm PT
Quit your bickering. ISIS must be obliterated. Focus on that.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 20, 2014 - 05:12am PT
Winston Churchill in 1899



How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

(Source: The River War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 London).

Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/09/pm-cameron-stop-hogwash-isis-islamic/#pwxm4vxVxubEm9GP.99
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 20, 2014 - 08:46am PT
This mornings headline brought to you by the "islamic" cult.

http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/16434-badghis-clerics-issue-decree-prohibiting-women-from-work
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 20, 2014 - 10:22am PT

In what civilized country does this "faith" fit?

I dunno.

In what civilized country does the idea that you can inter an entire race of people in the national interest exist? I'm not talking Nazi Germany. Their laws have changed.

The 1944 Hugo Black written decision that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans has never been overturned and is thus still US law.


http://blog.pacificlegal.org/2014/will-one-of-the-worst-supreme-court-decisions-finally-be-overruled/

Maybe this is for the " we are a christian nation" thread.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 20, 2014 - 11:58am PT
Our problem is the radical right thinks the solution is to nuke the Middle East.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 20, 2014 - 12:02pm PT


When the entire left half of the political spectrum cannot find fault with radical Islam...

...then Western Civilization is up shitt creek, and free-thinking people are doomed

That decision was written by Hugo Black, FDR appointee and firmly on the left.


Free thinking people are doomed when they let fear and their dogmas get in the way of actual thought.


Freethought or free thought is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, or other dogmas.[1][2][3] The cognitive application of freethought is known as "freethinking", and practitioners of freethought are known as "freethinkers"

And Western Civilization is an oxymoron, as two World Wars in the last century attest.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 20, 2014 - 03:11pm PT
Send his picture to Cosmic for some Cosmotology...That's worse punishment than a Hell Fire missle up your azz...
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 20, 2014 - 04:52pm PT

http://www.arabnews.com/news/630941

[ARABNEWS] Officials from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention Vice (Haia) in Riyadh have jugged
"Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!"
an African man accused of engaging in black magic to create rift in married couples for SR20,000 a client, said Turki Al-Shelail, Haia front man.
"Gimme RS20,000 or yer marriage is bust!"
"Which one?"
Haia officials have confiscated the material supposedly used by the man to cast spells.
"Don't touch that!"
"By Allan, Abdul! Yer hand's turned into a toad!"
"Make it stop jumping!"
"No! I'll get warts!"

Saudi bloggers have expressed their indignation at the heinous crime and urged authorities to behead him.
"Dat's right! Orf widdiz 'ead!"
"Those who turn to sorcerers to create division among members of society must be punished," said one blogger, who did not mention his name.
Ummm... What if the sorcery's total BS? I regularly sit around uttering Words of Power and nothin' ever happens.
Have you tried it in Soddy-controlled Arabia?
And what about good-hearted sorcerers who turn bats into people or make wells wet?
"God's wrath will be incurred on people who try to create division among married couples and who pay huge amounts to destroy homes and families," said Mouda Alaf.
"Y'see, honey? I was only shaggin' Fatima because somebody laid a curse on me!"
"Damn those sorcerers! Come on, Moh! I'll make you a special dinner!"

Another blogger urged security officers to catch people who turn to sorcerers to do their dirty work.
"You there! Yer under arrest! Book 'im, Mahmoud! Soliciting Sorcerers One!"
"The sorcerer should be asked to break his black magic spells before being beheaded," said another blogger.
"Ummm... Lemme get this straight: I undo the spells, then you behead me?"
"Yeah. Them's the rules."
"It'll take awhile to undo the spells..."
"How long?"
"'Bout seventy years."

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From Rantburg.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 20, 2014 - 05:10pm PT
can't believe anything you see now, anonymous has declared war on them

[Click to View YouTube Video]
WBraun

climber
Sep 20, 2014 - 05:15pm PT
So anonymous is going to hack into the drone controls and blow ISIS out of the sand?

OR .... they are going after all the rouge intelligent agencies and politards running this scam .....
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 20, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
Hey, I'm starting to think ISIS has something to do with Islam...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/16/the-apocalyptic-magazine-the-islamic-state-uses-to-recruit-and-radicalize-foreigners/
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 20, 2014 - 06:12pm PT


Hey, I'm starting to think ISIS has something to do with Islam..

Clearly a theocracy. They even have " in God we trust" on the money they buy arms with.
WBraun

climber
Sep 20, 2014 - 06:14pm PT
No wonder you are so messed up in the head, HFCS

You read the Washington Post and believe all their disinfo bullsh!t.

You don't have clue what this fuked up media outlet is behind and about .....
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 20, 2014 - 08:38pm PT


"Muhammad is the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales"
--tops ONS study released today only when all variations are added together

But no worries...."Amelia stays as the top girls name for the third year running in 2013"

Harley and Bentley are pretty popular, which probably pisses off the Triumph and Rolls folks.

And who would name their kid Junior? What if he named his kid after himself?

Especially if his last name was Major and he became a Major...

What a mess.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 20, 2014 - 09:32pm PT
"Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair."





crankster

Trad climber
Sep 20, 2014 - 09:57pm PT
Good article, HRCS. Thanks for sharing.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 21, 2014 - 07:37am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 21, 2014 - 10:46am PT


Sep 21, 2014 - 09:28am PT
oddly, the left-wingers on this site mainly seem obsessed with the rights of people to have gay sex



Dude. It's ok for you to come out. Your fascist party is now on board.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/20/politics/gop-same-sex-marriage/
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 21, 2014 - 11:45am PT
How "moderates" deal with it.

http://weaselzippers.us/200259-province-in-moderate-muslim-indonesia-proposes-100-lashes-for-gay-sex/
nah000

climber
canuckistan
Sep 21, 2014 - 12:12pm PT
Ron Anderson:

the day you post a parallel list of the [tens of or more likely hundreds of] thousands of civilians killed by u.s. drone stirkes and military actions in the middle east and ask the question:

how do u.s. corporatocratic ideologies fit into a civilized world?

will be the day when you [and your specific question regarding radical islamic ideologies - which is of course also an important question] will be taken as seriously as i assume you hope to be...

just because those deaths don't happen on u.s. soil or to white people doesn't mean they are imagined, or "news channel conjecture", either...

if you want to focus on facts you need to be open to all of them, not just the ones that reinforce your f*#ked up worldview...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 21, 2014 - 12:54pm PT
TGT..100 lashes might be not be punishment for some...?
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 21, 2014 - 02:31pm PT
radical right thinks the solution is to nuke the Middle East

f*#k yeah!
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 21, 2014 - 02:58pm PT
Befor 9-11 the national murder rate for all people in the usa was 5.6/100,000

Now it is 4.6/100,000

It's not this great apocalyptic war scenario you want to paint.

As to americans captured and killed in isis controlled areas, it is awful.

Don't go there.
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Sep 21, 2014 - 03:04pm PT
oddly, the left-wingers on this site mainly seem obsessed with the rights of people to have gay sex

odd, I don't see any indication whatsoever of this

clearly there is no real political divide, everyone wants to bomb the crap out of ISIS

the only people obsessed with gay sex are those who think others are obsessed about it
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 21, 2014 - 03:21pm PT
They won't say it but the right wing extremists want to nuke them all. Millions of innocent people turned to dust.

Well, I guess pyromaniac does.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 21, 2014 - 06:25pm PT


They won't say it but the right wing extremists want to nuke them all. Millions of innocent people turned to dust.

Well, I guess pyromaniac does.

Actually, they don't. They need cheap labor to extract the oil. At least a quarter of it comes from where we are discussing.You can't get a lot of production out of people who have been turned to glass.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 21, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
You can't have gay sex with glass people either...
Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Sep 21, 2014 - 08:29pm PT
The below, is a list of Muslim attacks in the USA ..

Tragic & horrible. Hundreds & thousands of people maimed & dying due what one group believes. Now lets talk about how many hundreds of thousands are maimed or die each year to keep the alcohol & tobacco industries in business...
WBraun

climber
Sep 21, 2014 - 08:46pm PT
The earth weeps while the stupid New World Disorder runs amok on her breast.

Modern man has lost his soul, his mind and his heart.

The earth weeps ......

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 21, 2014 - 10:17pm PT

Have any of the religious war enthusiasts here, wonder why that invitation to the block party thrown in the gated community next to you never came ?

They don't invite the hired help?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 12:26am PT
"I think the president's concern, and I understand it, was that he had a fear that if we started providing weapons, we wouldn't know where those weapons would wind up," said Panetta, defense secretary when the US pulled out of Iraq in 2011.

"My view was: you have to begin somewhere," added Panetta, also a former CIA director.


So Obama ignored the same advice that Reagan took in Charlie Wilson's war. The Stinger missles from that fiasco are still shooting down Aircraft and the arms are killing americans.

The U.S. spent a billion a year arming Mujahedin and training Taliban, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Ossama Bin Laden with CIA money. Zarqawi's Al Qaida in Irag turned into ISIS. We also built up our great friends the Pakistanis who hid Ossama at their military academy for 8 years.

So yeah, he was worried where the arms would turn up. There is a very good reason he was worried. Reagan trained and armed what became Al Qaida and ISIS.

So Panetta is an idiot.


And King Abdullah has plenty of cash from U.S. aid and his own oil wells. Let him buy pretty exploding toys for his neighbors.

Oh, wait. The other Abdullah beat him to it. And we are paying fighters. Now all he has to do is stop the transshipments Qatar is trucking through Saudi Arabia to ISIS. He'll have to pass up the shipping permits, though.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/saudis-reportedly-to-arm-syrian-rebels-with-advanced-weaponry/
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 22, 2014 - 06:51am PT
Thanks, Chief, for the Hillary Clinton endorsement. Welcome aboard.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 22, 2014 - 07:33am PT
Headline in today's LA Times: "Obama waiting for Arab states to step up"

BwaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!!

You mean like Michigan?
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 22, 2014 - 08:28am PT
i'm waiting for the FRENCH to terminate the ISIS!
WBraun

climber
Sep 22, 2014 - 08:38am PT
Obummer won't do sh!t and for the very reason that ISIS is a US created proxy to take down Syria.

Another phony "war on terror" by your stupid govt. to keep you stupid.

Americans falling for this stupid sh!t as the same stupid Bin Laden bullsh!t are goners.

You've been 0wned and will continue to be 0wned.

Man ..... are Americans ever stupid .

You're American - you've been genetically engineered to remain stupid .....

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 09:43am PT
CHIEF:

I bike: walk: and Drive every day. I got my licence in about 1963. In all that time I've never heard of a bicyclist around here being beheaded by ISIS. ( I have no plans to bike tour in ISIS controlled territory) the terrorists you need to worry about are white folks drinking and text messaging while they are driving. Maybe they need to beheaded. I'll talk to my local ISIS chapter about that.
It might cut down on the 55,000 people who are masacred a year by drunken Christians.

I nominate this guy from the other day as a likely candidate.

The driver was identified as Kristopher Woodruff, 34, of Vernonia. He was booked in Columbia County Jail on charges of first-degree manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and a fail to appear warrant.

According to police, initial investigation indicates Woodruff became distracted while looking at a text message on his phone while driving. His vehicle traveled onto the shoulder where it struck the victim, police said.

Woodruff does not have a valid driver's license, according to investigators.

And ISIS isn't the only folks thinking women belong at home.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-great-gop-fail-women


Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 11:49am PT


Ah, so you have contributed to the rise and current financing of ISIS. Good on you!

Unless your only means of getting around is walking barefoot, you've made a pretty good contribution too.


Good luck with those hemp ropes for climbing.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 22, 2014 - 12:55pm PT
You really can't make this stuff up.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 02:35pm PT
That we depend on oil from ISIS is a complete myth. We get about 7,000 barrels a month from Iraq and Syria out of 287,000 barrels, so, maybe 2% ( none from Syria) . We get half of our imported oil from Canada and Mexico. There are very few ISIS fields there.

Meanwhile we are the second largest EXPORTER of oil a month At 300,000 barrels from Alaska and Gulf shale oil. Most goes to Japan.

And we will soon be producing 500,000 barrels a month for export , making us the largest exporter in the world.


http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/09/21/commentary/japan-commentary/rather-than-boon-for-japan-u-s-shale-oil-is-still-rip-off/#.VCCUSX5HarW

The plutocrats would be perfectly happy if no oil at all came here from Iraq. The price would just go up.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 22, 2014 - 03:55pm PT
We all know that question is a thinly veiled narcissistic personal attack. And you drive a car, so you're practically autodepositing your your paycheck to ISIS.

Or something like that.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 22, 2014 - 04:07pm PT
It's the Chief's quiet understatement - that 'less is more' gravitas, grounded in true self-awareness, that provides the true power and wisdom of his message. Like a siren song drifting o'r troubled waters, or the saving beacon of a lighthouse piercing through a fog of human failings.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
Let's start over.

After 1135 posts on sand niggers, turning random human beings to glass and how we can't live without Syrian oil....


What was the issue the Chief is talking about?

I can't get past the angry dwarf thing.
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Sep 22, 2014 - 04:23pm PT
why would the US Pentagon tell some guys on the internet how many oil fields held
by ISIS it has destroyed so far?

what possible benefit would there be in putting that out for the public?

I was't invited to the daily briefings.....
dirtbag

climber
Sep 22, 2014 - 04:23pm PT
Too funny, Lorenzo!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 22, 2014 - 04:25pm PT
My clowncar runs on organic bio diesel and the laughter of children.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 04:39pm PT

My clowncar runs on organic bio diesel and the laughter of children.

Mine runs on electricity that destroyed Celilo falls and the Native American Columbia River Chinook salmon culture. ( and the laughter of children)

I am ashamed, but when it happened I was 10,892 miles away and 10 years old.

I'm willing to blow up John Day dam if you are.

How many M-80's would that take?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 22, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
Well, they haven't quite reached the level of turning each other into glass, but they are getting closer.



http://theaviationist.com/2014/09/22/hezbollah-drone-video/
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 22, 2014 - 06:21pm PT
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-attack-on-iraqi-base-leaves-hundreds-missing-shows-army-weaknesses/2014/09/22/9a8b9e4d-0fea-4650-8816-5e720dbffd04_story.html
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 22, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
destroyed is relative. There are moar clever, and environmentaly responsible ways of nuetralizing an oilfield, besides simply blowing it up.

Anonymous nuetralized the ISIS website this weekend. Unable to connect. CNN stopped running ISIS video, as did LiveLeak and YouTube about a week ago. So there's nothing new from them. No proof vid on the 300 Kurd execution this past w/e.
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Sep 22, 2014 - 06:43pm PT

We are ready for any and every ISIS or terrorist attack on our residence here in Joshua Tree.....bring it on......
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 22, 2014 - 06:54pm PT
Gordon...Don't see any drones..? You'll perish...
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Sep 22, 2014 - 08:53pm PT
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 22, 2014 - 08:58pm PT
Now I can't even remember who was angry.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:23am PT
Here is another interview with General Wesley Clark on the same topic PotatoHead brought up. He claims destabilizing the Middle East was in the works since 1991.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

And the original interview is available in its entirety on YouTube in four parts starting with this one:

http://youtu.be/bSL3JqorkdU

If you don't watch it all, watch parts 1 & 4
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 07:32am PT
O'Reilly gets real? A 25k man mercenary army?

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/bill-oreilly-on-americas-strategy-to-defeat-isis-militants/
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:17am PT
Excellent Pentagon briefing on the first USA/Coalition strikes in Syria happening right now.

Wow. Looks like there was a serious message sent to ISIS. MANY missiles from Many platforms in one night.

Damn.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:23am PT
Let's hope the virgins in Paradise are up to the task.
And just how did the virgins get to Paradise?
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:35am PT
Good job Bush aircraft carrier!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:40am PT
It appears many virgins may be needed this morning.

Three waves of airstrikes just last night.

Some pretty amazing photos and video brought forward. There is also a new Al-Qaeda group that was hit- Khorasan.


They were supposedly in the final stages of planning for major strikes against the west.


Let me say openly that I am conflicted on all these issues. I am a peacenik that really wishes we could get away from so much war.

I am not a politician, or foreign policy expert as so many around here are.

I am also a military man, and when my brothers are taking the fight to the enemy, particularly when the enemy is as evil as these ISIS people, I am with them.



Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:45am PT
Russia was quick to condemn the airstrikes. TheWashington Post noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin — the patron saint of territorial integrity — decried the airstrikes as a violation of Syria's sovereignty.

Good ol' Vlad is all about territorial integrity, isn't he?
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:48am PT
Ron, if you are deluded into thinking that Obama is the first president to make major mistakes in foreign policy, or has supported the wrong people, or is the last who will do it, or that a conservative wouldn't, or hasn't supported the wrong people, you need to sniff some more taxidermy products.

Maybe you've heard of Teddy Roosevelt in the P.I. Maybe you've heard of Vietnam? Maybe you've heard of Iran/Contra. Maybe you've heard of the original war in Afghanistan? Maybe you've heard of WMD?

Right now Obama is kicking some ass on ISIS, with GUNS etc. You like guns don't you? F*#k me man, you could drive Poe to madness.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:27am PT
They did it under Obama's orders. But thanks for caring.



I do not think OBAMA is kicking any ass.


Just like HE did not terminate Bin Laden.

Let's be fair, neither did any of the good men you pictured.
Neither did the JCOS. Neither did men on the decks.
But we're all part of a big incredible machine.

Obama's still the boss.
You did take orders didn't you?
couchmaster

climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:43am PT


Leon Panetta said that all of President Obamas security advisers had wanted to support moderates in Syria, all of them (including Hillary). The President overrode them and said no.

It was a terrible decision. ISIS filled that power vacuum and is the result of the Presidents choice.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:51am PT
The US is responsible to fill every power vacuum? We'd better get busy.

I'm grateful for a level headed CIC for a change. Syria's not our fight. Any power vacuums there are neither ours to take blame for nor fill. And that also goes for Iraq. THAT lesson should be well burned in by now, but apparently it isn't.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:54am PT
all of President Obamas security advisers had wanted to support moderates in Syria

Yeah, they're 'moderates' until they get in power.
Then they're another bunch of azzholes we can't 'reason' with.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:59am PT
The rightwing America-haters, Chief, Ron, et al, just can't support the president under any circumstance.

Too busy trying to assign blame...and they certainly won't look in the direction of the do-nothing Republican congress.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 10:12am PT
why is Syria/Iraq our fight? One must first answer that before criticizing the specifics of our involvement. So far, nothing about that on this forum.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 10:25am PT
Tvash, the president is trying to make it the world's fight.

"President Obama emphasized that the extensive operation had included Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain.

“America is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations on behalf of our common security,” Mr. Obama said. “The strength of this coalition makes clear to the world that this is not just America’s fight alone.”

Chief, try to put aside your hate for awhile. Turn off that damn talk radio. Fire up the 998 and chill.
Do you actually think you have knowledge of even a minuscule fraction of the amount of advice and intel the president gets?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 10:27am PT
tvash, from an evolutionary perspective (I know you believe in evolution) how do you know stirring things up over there (as only the West knows how, lol) won't serve as prelude to a new chapter of civilization, one that's better for the greater good all things considered (like little Levant girls yet to be born who will aspire to empowerment, edu, equality, etc.)?

I know you've noticed, Nature's way is to keep things stirred up (or stoked) so change can occur. Nature abhors a vacuum. She also abhors stasis when she has evolutionary growth in mind.

Many have evolutionary growth in mind. And long term future. For future sake. For the future of sugar and spice and puppy-dogs tails. Everywhere. (Not just Seattle.) For instance. :)
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 10:41am PT
OK, so far we have 2 arguments for involvement:

1) It shouldn't be a US fight, but the world's fight. No reason given as to why, however.

2) We should hit the region with a military Chicxulub to stir things up and see what evolves out of it in the hopes that it will be something 'better'. Not...as compelling an line of reasoning, perhaps. A bit, how shall I put this?...theoretically removed for my tastes.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 23, 2014 - 10:54am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 11:07am PT
More accurately, we had an administration faced with a very violent civil war in a country we have virtually no experience with involving a psychopathic tyrant supported by the Russkies and Iranians on one side and a host of bad actors, including factions of Al Qaeda, on the other, in a region we'd just pulled out of after a decade of failure following our almost single handed destabilization/invasion based on a lie.

Hmmm...that paints a very different decision making process to me.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 23, 2014 - 11:09am PT
And Its Party Time At Raytheon!

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/precision/index.html

Mission: Precision Targeting

Avoiding casualties. Reducing risk. Minimizing collateral damage.
In a new era of warfare, our precision weapons are meeting the
mission—hitting the target and nothing else.

Raytheon’s systems incorporate satellite navigation, laser guidance,
high-definition radars, advanced seekers and other technologies. They
allow customers to carry out discriminating strikes on bona fide targets
and defend against incoming attacks with unprecedented effectiveness.

When near misses aren’t acceptable, Raytheon is precisely on target.

Raytheon stock price is up 25pts since ISIS became major news.

https://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=RTN&a=11&b=31&c=1981&d=08&e=23&f=2014&g=w
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 11:24am PT
More accurately, we had an administration faced with a very violent civil war in a country we have virtually no experience with involving a psychopathic tyrant supported by the Russkies and Iranians on one side and a host of bad actors, including factions of Al Qaeda, on the other, in a region we'd just pulled out of after a decade of failure following our almost single handed destabilization/invasion based on a lie.

I'm trying to find something here to disagree with. Can't.

The Amnesia Sufferer's (conservatives) have no recollection of the search for WMD and that pesky Iraq War.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 23, 2014 - 11:26am PT
What's the difference now? Now it's a good guy playing the shell game?
It's still a shell game. You almost always lose at it.
Degaine

climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 12:19pm PT

Survival wrote:
F*#k me man, you could drive Poe to madness.



Ron Anderson wrote:
..But whom , may I ask is the "poe"??

Seriously?

Edgar Allan Poe.



Ron Anderson wrote:
So why is it a dumbass "hillbilly" like myself...


You've got the first step down, only eleven more left.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 12:39pm PT
Ron knows who Poe is, he was only asking which one of us was "mad".

There Ron, I just defended you!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 12:47pm PT
Deleted my comment. No need to add to the dung heap.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 12:55pm PT
Assuming that's Kuwait - no one has discussed their opinion of that joint international action at all here. You're the first.

And, assuming that's Kuwait - a civil war does not an invasion of a sovereign nation make.

Or perhaps it's Saddam's crushing of the Shiite uprising - a group the US hung out to dry.

Next argument...
WBraun

climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
America and Israel are the ones who started the whole Mideast mess from the beginning.

America and Israel two biggest terrorist nations on the planet.

Americans are totally stupid ......
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:00pm PT
Given that its' untitled, unsourced, and pretty generic, that picture could be anything you want it to be.

I believe America and Israel arrived late to the ME party - but you're just a stupid f*#king German, so, other than the Jew killing part, how would you know either way?

And yes, that was my attempt at employing a Braunism.

How'd I do?

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:10pm PT
Anybody else surprised the USAF is using F22's?

A third of a billion each. Use it or loose it, I guess.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:15pm PT
As long as those F-22's don't try to land on CVN-77 then it's OK.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:16pm PT
In case it comes up, if the Chief sent me homemade chocolate chip cookies I'd say "Thanks for the cookies"
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:25pm PT
Assuming that's Kuwait - no one has discussed their opinion of that joint international action at all here. You're the first.

And, assuming that's Kuwait - a civil war does not an invasion of a sovereign nation make.

Amen.

Righties don't like their politics too complicated. "Saddam invaded Kuwait and see what Bush the Elder did!" (took 5 months to form a coalition). Like they are the same situation. Well, they are in the same general area, 'bout it.



Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:45pm PT

In case it comes up, if the Chief sent me homemade chocolate chip cookies I'd say "Thanks for the cookies"

But....
Would you eat them?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
It was over in 42 days because we cut and ran, abandoning Kurds and Shia we promised to help in uprising to Saddam Slaughter.

In Coalition-occupied Iraqi territory, a peace conference was held where a ceasefire agreement was negotiated and signed by both sides. At the conference, Iraq was approved to fly armed helicopters on their side of the temporary border, ostensibly for government transit due to the damage done to civilian infrastructure. Soon after, these helicopters and much of Iraq's military were used to fight an uprising in the south. The rebellions were encouraged by an airing of "The Voice of Free Iraq" on 2 February 1991, which was broadcast from a CIA-run radio station out of Saudi Arabia. The Arabic service of the Voice of America supported the uprising by stating that the rebellion was large, and that they soon would be liberated from Saddam.[116]

In the North, Kurdish leaders took American statements that they would support an uprising to heart, and began fighting, hoping to trigger a coup d'état. However, when no U.S. support came, Iraqi generals remained loyal to Saddam and brutally crushed the Kurdish uprising. Millions of Kurds fled across the mountains to Turkey and Kurdish areas of Iran. These events later resulted in no-fly zones being established in northern and southern Iraq. In Kuwait, the Emir was restored, and suspected Iraqi collaborators were repressed. Eventually, over 400,000 people were expelled from the country, including a large number of Palestinians, due to PLO support of Saddam. Yasser Arafat didn't apologize for his support of Iraq, but after his death, the Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas' authority formally apologized in 2004.[117]
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
Our brilliant military strategy against ISIS is simple:
Blow up e-infrastructure to shut off their internet and cell phones.

Hits on multiple levels both physical and psychological.

ISIS online presence diminished. Recruiting degraded.
ISIS command and control in disarray.
Carrier pigeon messaging starts to look like a good idea.
ISIS fighters angry can't surf western porn sights on days off.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
Taking on ISIS means direct involvement in the Syrian civil war, which, for the aforementioned reasons, has its issues.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but making such a call - with all the details and contingencies required, seems somewhat more difficult.

zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Sep 23, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
And I have lately encountered several 20-30 year olds that have asked me what's with all these bad vibes from older Vets about Vietnam?

Just cherry picking stuff, but this seems like something worth exploring.

Go ahead and elaborate 'The'.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:06pm PT
Iraq was approved to fly armed helicopters on their side of the temporary border, ostensibly for government transit due to the damage done to civilian infrastructure. Soon after, these helicopters and much of Iraq's military were used to fight an uprising in the south.

Sorry Chief. You are rewriting history. The limited Iraqi use of helicopters was part of the cease fire agreement and didn't include slaughtering marsh Arabs. GHW Bush let it happen.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:09pm PT

"Not when ISIS came over the border in droves into Iraq in Dec of last year."

???

ISIS originated in Iraq. they've been staging attacks there in various forms for over 10 years.


Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
Wtf DOESNT it have to do with the agreement?

There was a cease fire agreement. We let Saddam get by with stuff not in the agreement so he could slaughter dissidents we encouraged then betrayed.

I can't help you beyond that
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:14pm PT
ISIS for adults:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/the-iraq-isis-conflict-in-maps-photos-and-video.html?_r=0
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:18pm PT

GW1 Commemorative.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:24pm PT
Of course you didn't. Too embarrassing.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
love you Chief!
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:31pm PT


Nice dodge Lorenzo.

100 hrs is all it took to rid the 100k Iraqi invaders/executioners from Kuwait.



Yeah, great job. We let them execute people we said we'd support.

BRAVO!

And people wonder why we aren't trusted in the region..
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:34pm PT
From the NYT today:


"Senior Obama administration officials said on Tuesday that the airstrikes against the Islamic State — carried out in Syria without seeking the permission of the Syrian government or the United Nations Security Council — were legal because they were done in defense of Iraq.

International law generally prohibits using force on the sovereign territory of another country without its permission or authorization from the United Nations, except as a matter of self-defense. American intelligence agencies have concluded that the Islamic State poses no immediate threat to the United States, though they believe that another militant group targeted in the strikes, Khorasan, does pose a threat.

But the senior administration officials said on Tuesday that Iraq had a valid right of self-defense against the Islamic State — also known as ISIS or ISIL — because the militant group was attacking Iraq from its havens in Syria, and the Syrian government had proved unable or unwilling to suppress that threat. Iraq asked the United States for assistance in defending itself, making the strikes legal, the officials said."
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
We're not trusted in the region, at all, for the aforementioned reason, and for many other reasons involving our most recent decade in Iraq, so I'm not quite sure what there is to 'give up' with regards to this easily verifiable statement of the obvious.

The Chief knows weapons systems, but with regards to current events or recent history of the region, he's pretty quickly out of his ground-level element. He also tends to omit casualties as a result of our military action in the region. The numbers are compelling.

His heart seems to be in the right place - wacking as#@&%es and protecting the innocent. I'd eat his cookies. His debate style is ineffective at getting what may be some valid points across, however. If you want respect, you've gotta give some.



Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:50pm PT
If it was such an ass kicking, why were we there for the second bush war?

That lasted 11 years.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:52pm PT
Just cherry picking stuff, but this seems like something worth exploring.

Go ahead and elaborate 'The'.

So are you saying McNamara was right, or wrong? If so when? In 1964 or 1995?

Just curious having had some recent conversations with a Vietnam vet friend of mine.

He is still having bad vibes, mostly about those who criticize the war.

Better?

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:56pm PT
The Jordan period is true, but my link covers ISIS' long history in Iraq in some detail for any interested parties here. Your idea that they came sweeping out of nowhere from Syria to invade Iraq, to bolster the Same As Kuwait argument (I guess) is crap, of course. You just refuted it yourself.

Thanks...I guess.

Dude, you're so busy librul bashing (as only an ex-librul can) that you lose track of your own arguments - and I use that term in the very loosest sense.





Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
I don't read blogs. And I'd wager their wars are as much bullshet as ours, with perhaps one notable exception.

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:13pm PT
Bombs & missiles are flying and all the far-right extremists can do is harp about the '91 Iraq War, which has ZERO to do with ISIS.

Might as well talk about D-Day.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:14pm PT
Seriously? A tough week on the flight deck is supposed to impress?

What, did they run out of french fries by Thursday?

CHeerist.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:22pm PT
Not impressed, Chief. Not gonna be. Sorry man. You never came under fire. You've puffed yourself up like a combat vet.

You're not. You're just a sailor who had to work hard for a few days.

Now KOS? I haven't seen him say or imply a damn thing about his service...in stark contrast to yourself, who never fails to go for the unearned swagger. But I've found that the hard cores - the Real Thing - don't feel the need. Mostly, I've just noticed KOS levies an opinion, then debates that opinion without jumping around a whole lot.

Harsh - but you get what you put out.

Isn't that your line?









crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:31pm PT
Perhaps in the nick of time, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has done President Obama the favor of drafting a strategy to fully destroy the now-infamous terrorist group known as ISIS.

While plugging his new book, "Killing Patton" on CBS This Morning, O'Reilly advocated the creation of a giant "mercenary army" that the U.S. would help train and pay indefinitely to crush terrorist threats worldwide.

Above the chyron, "O'Reilly Gets Real," host Gayle King asked the "Factor" host how this ambitious plan would work.

"Under congressional approval and authority the United States would train, and pay well, mercenary troops form all over the world," said O'Reilly, unperturbed.

"We would select them, Special Forces would train them, a 25,000 man force to be deployed to fight on the ground against world wide terrorism. Not just ISIS," he said.

"And that would be a permanent force," O'Reilly added.

The Fox host went on to assure the hosts that his plan is not only plausible but guaranteed to happen.

"It's gonna happen. This anti-terror army is going to happen," he told King.

Hey, Chief, your pal, O'Reilly, is putting together a mercenary army...never too late to join the fight!
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:36pm PT
re: lone-wolf terror attacks

I do think we should expect them. So prepare yourselves.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:46pm PT
I've never claimed nor implied any combat experience, poser.

Ever.



Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:47pm PT
I can't think of any of the recent manufactured conflicts that have bored me more than the latest ISIS fabrication. The latest Israel flare up panic was a close second. When this is over, can we look forward to a new one in another couple years? Can we have a naming contest in advance and come up with some sensational video topics?

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 04:27pm PT
referenced it before you asked.
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Sep 23, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
Man, you guys are wound tight.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:08pm PT
Well Chief, since this has been going on since before the US has been a nation, how is is it any of our business? Other than the fact that there is all that oil....
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:20pm PT
Thomas Jefferson thought it our business in 1801



Semper Latte


http://blogs.militarytimes.com/battle-rattle/2014/09/23/obama-salute-coffee/

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:22pm PT
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
Could Thomas Jefferson possibly have been an as#@&%e?
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:38pm PT
Everyone calm the f*#k down,
there are




(from the ST ad feed)
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:39pm PT
But one with far bigger balls than the Europeans!

Barbary corsairs and crews from the North African Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and the independent Sultanate of Morocco under the Alaouite Dynasty (the Barbary Coast) were the scourge of the Mediterranean.[2] Capturing merchant ships and enslaving or ransoming their crews provided the Muslim rulers of these nations with wealth and naval power. The Roman Catholic Trinitarian Order or Order of "Mathurins" had operated from France for centuries with the special mission of collecting and disbursing funds for the relief and ransom of prisoners of Mediterranean pirates. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries.[3]

Barbary corsairs led attacks upon American merchant shipping in an attempt to extort ransom for the lives of captured sailors, and ultimately tribute from the United States to avoid further attacks, much like their standard operating procedure with the various European states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

This part sound familiar?

In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:

It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.[21]

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:57pm PT
Oh cheef, you looked at my TR! Now I'm all blushing n sh#t.

At least you recognize that each of my 30 trip reports is better than your, ummm.....ZERO!

It's called content beyond just being an expert on every thread.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 05:59pm PT
Ah, fk ole Flybox (a more prescient nickname than I could have imagined)

Where in WA do you do zee teachin, Survival?

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
Fairchild AFB, a long time ago.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 23, 2014 - 06:22pm PT
Survival might well have taught my bro-in-law to eat a bug. I showed him a pic, admittedly
a few years after the fact, and he said

"THAT'S THE GUY!" ;-)
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 06:22pm PT
I just don't see how Flybox would think that would embarrass anyone, but then, I'm not sure he's quite right in the head in general, so I reckon anything goes in there.

I like the custom helmet paint job. Our teen students had a rainy day at Squamish and customized a bunch of their helmets - I gotta say they came up with some pretty cool motifs.

I'm going to see if they'll do mine for me.

dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 23, 2014 - 06:31pm PT
Calm the f%ck down.

"Let the peace of an unchanging climate be upon you."

The global warming movement has morphed into a coalition
of ‘climate cause deniers.’ They deny the hundreds of causes
and variables of climate change and pretend CO2 is the ‘control knob’
overriding all the others’. -RM

WBraun

climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 06:35pm PT
Consciousness is the actual control knob of Climate Change.

The minute one does not dovetail their actions with nature the climate will immediately change ......
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 23, 2014 - 07:16pm PT
OK Flybox.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
The Chief, 82-86 were my years at FAFB.

There weren't too many 105 pilots left at that point as I recall, because they were being phased out. They were retired in 84. So if there were 50 105 pilots sent through the school in that time, I might have only taught to a few of them, or even a couple.

Don't remember hearing of Wagner. Of course we were hip to the big name POW's, but I don't remember every name.
We knew a lot about Stockdale, Day, Johnson, Denton, Risner etc.

But we were also tasked with teaching an awful lot of hands on that didn't have anything to do with POW lore, so it's not as though I read an autobiography on each guy that ever did time there.

I believe my first Wing commander was a 105 pilot. His name was Gadd. I also had a Hilton survivor as a commander, Norman McDaniels. It was very interesting to be in a tiny Vietnamese restaurant in Arlington VA one night and find a picture of him on the wall at a POW reunion. Weird.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:11pm PT
Apr 82.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:19pm PT
So you're like 100 years old then?

Kidding. I didn't join until I was past 21. I was the 2nd oldest guy in my Instructor class. They called me "old man" at 21 years.....sheeeit....
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:28pm PT
Oh man, here we go...turning this into another personal story thread, ala Ron.
Chief, why don't you ask your congressperson what to do about ISIS? You should find him/her at home raising $$$ while ducking a vote on the issue.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:30pm PT
Taught DEA pilots in PR, went on vacation to PI and hung out with buddies outside of Clark. I did "cold" jungle/rainforest, in Olympic Peninsula, SE AK type stuff.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 23, 2014 - 08:58pm PT
Yes, also a proud member of the worst, do-nothing congress in our nations history. You should find him glad-handing at a country club fundraiser tonight. Don't worry, he'll crawl back to Washington after the election. Why rush back to work during war time?...there's votes and $$$ to score!
And so much easier to sit back with the rest of his party and blame the president for everything wrong while offering no viable alternative. On anything.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:24pm PT
Supertopo can't get any lower when you have an Air Force guy being ball cupped by a retired Navy guy living in the Sahara north of Bishop...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 23, 2014 - 09:53pm PT
Weed...They told me it was crack cocaine..?
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Sep 23, 2014 - 10:27pm PT
Not wishing to appear too harsh;

yet (extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue)

isn't it about time that U.S. drones began neutron bombing the entire mid-east?

It's not the camels and buildings that are the problem, it is all the crazy people.

Neutron 'em back to the Pleistocene and see what evolves from the ashes.

Make sure the U.S. gets oil rights.

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 24, 2014 - 03:41am PT
from the IS website this morning....

Crash thanks to God Almighty, the day a rocket-American, which was launched on the State of the Islamic Caliphate, near Mount poet, in the countryside of the state of Homs, the eastern, without achieving any goal, so it did not explode as well, which is of type (Tomahawk), and has a rocket engine turbo, wings, electronic processors, in addition to the front camera, and explosive charges are utilized in the preparation of car bombs, God willing.


pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:09am PT
anybody see the "Latte-salute" Obama did...what a shame!
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:09am PT
I disdain Tea Partier's

Soon enough, you righties will lose your favorite pastime - criticizing the President - and will have to actually defend the position of a candidate for the job. Can't wait to see you highlight the foreign policy credentials of Rand Paul or Chris Christie. Gonna be fun.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:12am PT
Pyromaniac, did they have this pic on Breibart this morning?
dirtbag

climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:15am PT
Thanks for the morning laughs guys!
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:20am PT
And we wonder why Sunnis and Shiites don't get along?
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 24, 2014 - 10:57am PT
RIP

ISIS has reportedly decapitated a French mountain climber!
Herve Gourdel was 55 from Nice.
http://7online.com/news/isis-supporters-appear-to-behead-french-captive/322235/


ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian police and soldiers combed the imposing
Djura Djura mountains on Tuesday searching for a kidnapped Frenchman that
a security official said had been snatched by a former al-Qaida commander.

Residents described roads choked with military trucks and helicopters
clattering overhead as security forces fanned out through the rugged
region that has long been a hotbed for extremist groups.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/france-islamic-state-kidnapped_n_5867102.html?utm_hp_ref=world
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 24, 2014 - 11:12am PT
Pyromaniac, did they have this pic on Breibart this morning?

Reagan started the salute thing.. respect military people!

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 11:32am PT

Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped in Algeria on Sept. 21, 2014

Kidnapped just days ago then. :(

.....

Of course it can't happen fast enough, but we ARE witnessing an Islamic reformation. Better before than after the region is chock-full of nuclear arsenals. There is the silver lining if you want one.

.....

ISIS... not about religion eh?
dirtbag

climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 12:11pm PT
Reagan started the salute thing.. respect military people!

Reagan certainly did respect the military. Even Nazis!

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
Meet the first female UAE fighter/bomber to engage targets. She flew and engaged in the Syria op.

crankster

Trad climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
That's cool. We need all the help we can get.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2014 - 07:55pm PT
Jim, the ladies also grace our air corps, and they're fighters/bombers as well.


Those are F-15 Tomcats in the background....badass! I know for a fact the ladies also fly the A-10 Warthog's too. Badass ground-support plane. And yeah, we just sent a whole wing of A-10's to Iraq, about 6-8 planes out of Arkansas.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:03pm PT
Blueding...Very yeah..! But don't those lesbos know they are sending ISIS to hell and not to nooky heaven...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:06pm PT
Yeah, they do, Johnny. That's why they're all smiling....

Muzzies hate getting killed by chix. And God bless the ladies that engage them.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:09pm PT
Early on in Afghanistan there was a female AC130 commander with a sweet voice that would broadcast in the clear on frequencies used by the Taliban.

.
The talibunnies called her,

"the angel of death"
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:28pm PT
Lt. Col. Kim Campbell (daughter of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed), managed to wrestle her A-10 back to base after completing her mission and encountering massive anti-aircraft bursts on her way home.


TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:31pm PT
Our son carted her wreck home. (aboard a C-5)

Said the difficult part was finding parts of the aircraft structurally sound enough to chain it down.

He's out on Monday.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:38pm PT
Correction...

Those are F-15E Eagles

I'm comforted to be corrected by a pro. You'd know!
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:48pm PT
This just in...the architect (and his despicable daughter) of one of the worst foreign policy disasters in US history, weighs in.

Now we know what not to do.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox on Wednesday to discuss the Islamic State, focusing their statements on criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the jihadists whose brutal conquests in Iraq and Syria have prompted the U.S. and allies to launch airstrikes against.

Asked by Hannity how could Obama have been so wrong on so many issues when it comes to ISIS, the former vice president said, "I think it's deliberate. I think [Obama] has a world view, and increasingly what he's found is that it isn't consistent with reality."

Cheney hit Obama for his hesitation to heed certain military advisors in his response to ISIS, "[Obama] clearly lacks the experience, and also I think the respect, for our senior commanders," Cheney said.

Cheney amplified the threat of ISIS, suggesting that ISIS could be the terrorist group that carries out an attack worse than 9/11 in response to Hannity's questioning on previous remarks he made. "I do believe there will be another mass casualty attack against the United States, and I do believe that next time they will have deadlier weapons than airline tickets and box cutters."

Cheney went on to say that he thought defeating ISIS will require "boots on the ground," despite Obama's insistence that is not an option.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 08:58pm PT
If you missed the Presidents excellent speech at the UN today (why would you?)..read about it here.
http://politi.co/ZNOKes
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 24, 2014 - 09:10pm PT
Ur BadAss Chief!!

i was only an EM E4 after 2yrs active, so i salute ya!

Even if you were just a working man.


Did you ever do time on the Kitty Hawk?
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 24, 2014 - 09:13pm PT

....it's part of their apocalyptic End of Days doctrine...it HAS to happen

When did they start reading the bible?
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 24, 2014 - 09:16pm PT
When did they start reading...?
WBraun

climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 10:18pm PT
Cash rules everything .....

America has become the most corrupt country in the world.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 24, 2014 - 10:24pm PT
What Werner B. says! Duh!

what if Barry's CIA is going to let one of
their controlled lone wolf ISIL(S) terrorist blow up something
here in the USA just before the election.

Thats so predictable from these scoundrels as to be an anticlimax.

i'm gumby dammit

Sport climber
da ow
Sep 24, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
Hopefully it will be you
dirtbag

climber
Sep 24, 2014 - 10:49pm PT
You can tell when Dave forgets to take his meds.

It seems to occur all the time.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 24, 2014 - 11:43pm PT


....it's part of their apocalyptic End of Days doctrine...it HAS to happen

When did they start reading the bible?

Dudes! It's an Abrahamic religion. It's in our apocalyptic end of days doctrine, too.
Read the book of Revelations.


They believe in most of the prophets in the bible, including Jesus and John the Baptist.

They have the same apocalypse, pretty much, that the bible religions do, including that Jesus is the true messiah, ascended into heaven, and will come down from heaven and defeat the false messiah ( antichrist) in the last battle before the day of judgement.

Sound familiar?

Read the Quran. You"ll be stunned at the nativity story Jesus and the Virgin Mary ( Maryam)
I read it in church at Christmas once. Fit right in. They even have a surah ( book) of Mary. Christianity expunged the ones we had floating around in the second century.


There is a reason the term " people of the book" exists.

Maybe it will happen on the plains of Meggido and everyone will be happy.
Delhi Dog

climber
Good Question...
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:13am PT
America has become the most corrupt country in the world.

You don't get out much these days do you...
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Sep 25, 2014 - 04:03am PT
^^^
Them's R some Beauty-ful boats.....

My stateroom was right under the 3 wire
Top bunk
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 25, 2014 - 06:20am PT
It's a wonder any aircraft could land on that small a surface...? Thank God the Navy had our Air Force to train their pilots...
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 25, 2014 - 06:33am PT
awesome pictures of the big boats!

take out isis oil and wheat!
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Sep 25, 2014 - 07:06am PT
A Lebanese writer examines the dysfunctional Arab world.
Refreshing to read something that is not a Westerner either saber rattling or self-flagellating.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-barbarians-within-our-gates-111116.html?hp=pm_2#.VCQaWhbp-Dh
WBraun

climber
Sep 25, 2014 - 07:41am PT
Americans have become the most arrogant country on the planet.

Rap, steal, destroy, destabilize, warmonger, any country it deems necessary to support it's ferocious appetite to sustain it's selfish level standard of living.

Americans the obese in body mind and soul.

America is directly responsible for all the turmoil in the MidEast region and many others .....
Port

Trad climber
San Diego
Sep 25, 2014 - 07:43am PT
Cash rules everything .....

America has become the most corrupt country in the world.

You think other countries are any different? Now that's delusional.


America is directly responsible for all the turmoil in the MidEast region and many others .....

Riiiiiigggghhttt. Cause the Mideast was a docile and peaceful place before big, bad America came along.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 08:18am PT
yes, Americans across our Great Nation assume that its only a matter of time before ISIS attacks the homeland...excepting our intelligence services - who've surmised that ISIS is not a threat to national security.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 08:56am PT
when presented with two conflicting data - national security assessment and innernut jagoff opinion, the more likely hypothesis is door number 1.

if that constitites being upset for the jagoff in question, so be it.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 25, 2014 - 08:59am PT
excepting our intelligence services - who've surmised that ISIS is not a threat to national security.

And what exactly is your clearance level that allows you to make that statement?

signed,
One time holder of a respectable clearance
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 25, 2014 - 10:02am PT
The religion of peas down under.

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/uniformed-australian-defence-force-member-allegedly-attacked-by-men-of-middle-eastern-appearance-in-western-sydney/story-fnj3rq0y-1227070573383
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Sep 25, 2014 - 11:19am PT
We are bombing them, killing them, vowing to destroy them...why would they NOT attack us?

This assumes that they are stupid.

A smart person would understand that an attack on the US Mainland would result in a formal invasion force designed to wipe them out to the man.

They should have learned from the beheadings. Maybe they did. Maybe the threat of a mainland attack is enough, creating uncertainty.

If I were them, I would definitely not attack.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 25, 2014 - 11:32am PT
Here is a longer talk by General Zinni about his book.(1hr)

[Click to View YouTube Video]

He didn't, however address the bald guy in the tank top's question about an analysis of who really profits from war in the long run, which is different from how much it costs.

And I'm not convinced his analysis of which recent presidents had real experience in the workings of politics on the hill is accurate. He named GHW Bush, who spent four years as a congressman from 1966-70. By my count that puts him about third on the list of recent presidents. Bush spent most of his time in non elected positions.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 11:52am PT
yes, i had a 'one time clearance' too, and as we both know, that is irrelevant. If my assertion were secret - that pesky 'need to know' clause would keep us both in the dark, regardless of our 007 status.

our intelligence services conclusion is not secret, however. its in the public domain and readily available. i read it in the NYT, but the googlez will produce much rich intel for the 007s out there, im sure.

we're attacking ISIS at the request of the Iraqi govt, and that os our SOLE stated justification. The legality of our actions in Syria is dubious and currently being challenged.

Some here would like to believe that ISIS is a threat to us to justify our actions as self defense, but thats not whats happening. It is an assumption born of being underinformed and over opinionated.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:11pm PT
Why does Tvash get upset...

Maybe he needs to take (a) a probability science course of some kind; and (b) a Human Functioning 101 course?

It's as if he's living in something of a fog sometimes and doesn't always see things clearly.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
Tvash, as a rule, naval officers don't get 'one time clearances'.
And if I had taken that job in Langley, VA I would have had an even higher one.
I suggest you come down off of yer high horse, brah.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
In summary, one must ask "what is the justification for US attacks on ISIS - in Iraq (sanctioned) by the Iraqi govt), in Syria (not sanctioned)?

Its not self defense.

Defense of an ally?

Humanitarian mission?

Is the US taking on radical Islam worldwide as a new phase of the WOT?

Or just in our areas of interest ( oil, etc)?

And, as always, what are the risks of such strategies?

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:28pm PT
you didnt take that job, however, so that is also irrelevant- to any discussion of anything. You're actually the first person I've ever encountered who has attempted to credit their self described expertise to experience they opted out of and therefore never had.

Apparently the Flybox syndrome is contagious.

'need to know'. you might review that 007 .
couchmaster

climber
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
When you have as many bombs stored up as we do, ya just have to use them Dingus.

FACT

We have always been at war with Oceania.

Last year Syria was the Presidents red line and we were going to bomb them for having gas, this year we attack their attackers. It should revert next year and we'll go with bombing the Syrians or more likely the Iranians.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 12:48pm PT
Big Brother neednt lift an eyebrow.

As this forum clearly shows, our fine citizens are perfectly willing to herd each over a cliff.

The ignorance, fear, and indignation of coddled entitlement is all it takes.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 25, 2014 - 01:11pm PT
My four year old could point out this Wag the Dog scenario.

I mean really... how more obvious can they get?

Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Sep 25, 2014 - 01:41pm PT
If you want a war go fight the goddamn thing...

Naw, bluering would rather a bunch of chicks go do his fighting for him.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
I agree with a draft - an all ages draft. The only thing that gets you out of it is poor health. Healthy grampas and grandmas can slop the troops in the chow line or work a desk.

Oh, is your business gonna fail if you're deployed? Tough shite.

You want a war? You got one - and that does mean YOU.

That would also be the end of the universal health care argument, toot sweet.

Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 25, 2014 - 04:25pm PT


Naw, bluering would rather a bunch of chicks go do his fighting for him.

Hope Solo is in Syria?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 25, 2014 - 05:12pm PT
I agree with a draft - an all ages draft. The only thing that gets you out of it is poor health.


Already have it! But I agree age should not be factor, the older guys can do SOMETHING.

Should women be exempt is the next question. There are non-combat roles for women too.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 05:20pm PT
We don't have a draft. We have a draft registration. We had a draft (sort of) when I was growing up. We also had a bunch of anti-war protests. Go figure.

Women should not be exempted from any roles. Full participation, Israeli style.

You want war, citizen? No problem. You get to come!

You want to opt out of the decision making process because 'politics isn't your thing'? Have a nice deployment, sucker.

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 25, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
the older guys can do SOMETHING.

Go Blue!

What's your plan?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 25, 2014 - 05:53pm PT


What's your plan?

Everybody on the planet gets one armed drone.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 25, 2014 - 05:53pm PT
Here's the IS retirement plan.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 25, 2014 - 06:02pm PT
someonez gotta protect the home front.

Locked and Loaded.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 25, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
Great article in the New Yorker about Kurdistan and ISIS

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 25, 2014 - 08:18pm PT
They are truly brutal and I mean that. Reminds me of christian treatment of American indians and African slaves. History is rife with man's inhumanity to man because someone was considered a heathen or apostatic by "religious", but certainly not good, people.
It waxes and wanes and one religion assumes the current throne of barbarisim but they all get their turn.
Little to choose between them.
WBraun

climber
Sep 25, 2014 - 09:31pm PT
You call that religion because you don't know what religion truely really is.

That's a bunch of morons using religion as an excuse to do bullsh!t.

Americans are stupid and have no clue.

Because they're stupid they throw violence against violence.

Americans fight fire with fire.

Stupid clueless Americans .....
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 25, 2014 - 10:14pm PT
Frank Rich on the fog of war...

In truth, we already have boots on the ground in the form of “special forces” and “advisers.” The moment they start returning to America in body bags, or are seen being slaughtered in ISIS videos, is the moment when the recent polling uptick in support for this war will evaporate. That support is an inch deep, and Congress knows it, which is why members of both parties fled Washington for the campaign trail last week rather than debate Obama’s war plan. As Paul Kane of The Washington Post pointed out, the Senate could not even fill up the scant allotted time (five hours) for debating the war, and “so at one point a senator devoted time to praising the Baltimore Orioles for their successful baseball season.” Next to this abdication of duty, Congress’s disastrous rush to authorize war in Iraq in 2002 looks like a wise and deliberate execution of checks-and-balances.

Almost everything that is happening now suggests this will end badly. We’ve failed to curb ISIS in Iraq because, for all the happy talk about its inclusive new government, Sunni Iraqis have yet to rally behind their new Shiite prime minister Haider al-Abadi any more enthusiastically than they did behind the despised Nouri al-Maliki. As for our expansion into Syria, even if we can find and train 5,000 Syrian “moderates” to fight the Islamic State, it will take a year to do so, according to our own government’s no doubt optimistic estimate. And they’ll still be outnumbered by ISIS forces by at least four-to-one. Nor do we know all the unintended consequences that will multiply throughout the region — as they have in every other American intervention in the Muslim world — with each passing month.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 26, 2014 - 08:17am PT
For the life of me, I can't see any real differences between Islam, Christianity and Judaisim.
All three are:
monotheistic
faith rather than reason based
and all three have:
used torture, murder and genocide
The main difference seems to be in their distribution.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 26, 2014 - 08:46am PT
Muzzie convert beheads coworker in Oklahoma.


http://kfor.com/2014/09/25/reports-police-respond-to-possible-shooting-near-moore-grocery-store/

(there wasn't any shooting except by the good guy.)
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 10:13am PT
Blogophiliac's disease

or a daily diet of FOX. (fkd up, obscure, exagerated)
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 26, 2014 - 10:53am PT
And of course there's a connection between a militarized group in Syria and some disgruntled ex-employee mental case killing someone at his workplace in Oklahoma

Just the religion of peas.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 11:53am PT
Crazy is crazy - whether its a Christian who murders a doctor or this guy.

We don't behead people in our society. We shoot, hang, or lethally inject them. We put them in solitary confinement for 40 years. We put more of them in prison per capita than any other nation in the history of man.

We have a lot of work to do here at home in the humanity department.

A lot of work.


We've been at war for 10 years in two countries. We spent an entire decade bombing Iraq prior to that. And a decade bombing Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia before that.

How many innocent people have we beheaded, dismembered, or burned to death with bombs?

A lot.

Wanna start improving humanity?

Look in the mirror and start at home. This is the place you can actually do something about.






donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 26, 2014 - 11:56am PT
+1 Tvash
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 26, 2014 - 11:59am PT
Look in the mirror and start at home

I'll be having an audience with the Pope in a month. I'll pass on your advice.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:01pm PT
You might also pass on a request to Il Papa to end the institutionalized child rape gulag he's in charge of.

And treat women equality (welcoming them into the priesthood would be a nice gesture, providing a full range of family planning services as required by law in Catholic hospitals would be another)

And stop persecuting homosexuals.



TIA.

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
The Brits are in.





British Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament Friday of the likely length of the mission ahead of what turned out to be an overwhelming vote to send UK air power into the fight.

But, he said, what choice does the country have when faced with a well-funded, highly organized force known for virtually unmatched cruelty?


"Beheadings, crucifixions, the gouging out of eyes, the use of rape as a weapon, the slaughter of children. All these things belong to the Dark Ages," Cameron told British lawmakers.

"Left unchecked, we will face a terrorist caliphate on the shores of the Mediterranean and bordering a NATO member, with a declared and proven determination to attack our country and our people," he said.

The same message came from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington: "This is going to be a persistent and sustained campaign, and it will take time," Gen. Martin Dempsey said Friday at a Pentagon briefing.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
Reilly...Are you part of the LA archdiocese class action lawsuit..? You can always toss the Priest costume and go strait...rj
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:33pm PT
RJ, how can I say no to my gud friend Father Sarducci?
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:37pm PT
What seems to be lost in all the Fly Into the Danger Zone circle jerks here is that the US spent 6 TRILLION dollars fighting 3 wars, each lasting 10 years -

and lost all of them. Worse, it destabilized whole regions in doing so.

son of stan

Boulder climber
San Jose CA
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:43pm PT
Survival Rule 101. When in areas that have muslims who have sympathies
for ISIS, carry a bigger knife.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:50pm PT
The Brits are in.

I love the brits. Thank goodness they're a part of our world! :)

(and have another one, Kate!)
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 26, 2014 - 01:05pm PT
I can't see any real differences between Islam, Christianity and Judaism

Other than that Christians pretty much quit killing each other for purely religious reasons clear back in 1645 with signing of the peace of Westphalia, and the Jews quit clear back around 1000 BC
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 01:31pm PT
He-llooooo Civil War!

People have never killed each other for 'purely religious reasons'

That idea is the refuge of the stupid.



Rock!...oopsie.

Trad climber
the pitch above you
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:17pm PT
Ron,

That's sooooo last page. Raised and dismissed. Move along.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:22pm PT
Let the Kurds mop up ISIS southward to Baghdad - where the Iraqi Army can hold the line (for a change).

Then support the full sovereign independence for the Kurdish territory in exchange.

Require significant ground troops from local nations to mop up ISIS in Syria in exchange for air support. No troops, no support.

It's a local problem - let the locals put some skin in the game for a change.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:35pm PT

Other than that Christians pretty much quit killing each other for purely religious reasons clear back in 1645 with signing of the peace of Westphalia, and the Jews quit clear back around 1000 BC

Wow. Selective history, much?

Ignoring that England was still hanging, drawing, and quartering Catholic priests in the 1680's....,

There was the little incidents of hugonots in France in the 1700's, the Mormons getting killed and killing in this country in the 1830's to 1850's in this country.( they do have Jesus Christ in their formal name)

And the KKK burning crosses sure thought they were Christian, what with all the crosses and such. Probably a pretty good analogy with muslim fanatic groups.

And we won't even get into the role of religion in Palestine.

You don't get to always define what religion is, just as you can't with isis.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
And the KKK burning crosses sure thought they were Christian

Uh' the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic party.

The original bylaws banned Republicans as well as blacks and Jews.

The 30 years war was the last major religious war in Europe.

The Shia and Sunnis haven't stopped killing each other since their founder died.

When's the last time you heard of a Protestant or Catholic sawing the others heads of?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:43pm PT
THE WAR IN Kosovo was the last religious war in Europe.


The Christians continued to kill each other in Ireland four decades ago.


The KKK still used religious symbology, and that they banned Jews ( and lynched them) doesn't exactly support the argument that religion wasn't involved.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:48pm PT
They lynched white Republicans too.

The misuse of religious imagery is not the same as the doctrinally prescribed slaughter in the Koran and hadiths.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:51pm PT
None of this is relevant to the matter at hand.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 26, 2014 - 02:57pm PT
The misuse of religious imagery is not the same as the doctrinally prescribed slaughter in the Koran and hadiths.

DUDE! The bible is FULL of prescriptions for killing your enemies for religious reasons. Have you even read it?

Deuteronomy 20:16

However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.


The Lord God even wanted the chickens killed.

Stop looking at religious sources for isis. We have plenty with our own religion. They are just bad people, not good Muslims.
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:03pm PT
Apparently a woman was beheaded in Oklahoma, by a converted to islam co worker today..

Yep. It is all over the news here. Beheadings aren't that common in the Sooner state. You will love the part where the business owner shot the offender with his own weapon. The violence was over by the time the cops got there.

The good news is the guy lived. Now we get to know what was up. Did it have anything to do with his reported conversion to Islam, etc.

He beheaded one woman and stabbed another repeatedly. The news said it was a good thing he was shot or it could have been much worse.

Crazy F'n world....
WBraun

climber
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:09pm PT
The CIA is laughing their asses off knowing how stupid Americans fell for that phoney beheading stunt.

Now they have the green light to Syria.

Americans are stupid sheep .....
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:14pm PT
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:22pm PT
Interesting the Brits won't bomb targets in Syria. That's because they understand the goals and the best strategy to achieve them. Bombing targets in Syria is counter productive if what we want to achieve is get ISIS out of Iraq (the rest can come later.)

The Brits want us, and the coalition, to bomb the living sh*t out of them in Iraq, focusing the entire power and efforts of the coalition on this. Destroy their vehicles, command and control, degrade their ability to fight us as an organised force. And leave them alone in Syria. They won't be incentivised to stay in Iraq under such conditions for long and what's left of them will migrate back to Syria. And of course this can and should be done without wasting, at 1.5 million a shot, our limited arsenal of cruise missiles. We have complete air superiority, JDAMS should do the job.

At this point close the border. Of course this will have to be done very fast, and will require boots on the ground (+/-30,000 coalition forces?) with the support of helicopter gunships, drones, and enough armor to deter a mechanized attack. You know a lot of those Euro countries have these fancy new tanks which have not been battle tested, here's their chance. When the border is sealed, and most of the rats are back in Syria, Then bombing the sh*t out of them in Syria makes sense, and if they try to get back to the other side they will find out what highly concentrated firepower is all about.

Of course I'm just dreaming, since any prospect of a well thought out strategy using real military force, with concrete goals, seems hopeless. Too bad the Brits aren't running the show.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
You mean the Oklahoma case of sudden Jihadi syndrome Werner?


Jah’Keem Yisrael” on his Facebook page.

http://weaselzippers.us/200898-oklahoma-beheading-suspect-facebook-celebrates-terrorists-has-photo-doing-one-finger-isis-salute/
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
They won't recognize the Ft. Hood killer as a terrorist despite his calls of Allah Akbar as he fired away. This choice has deprived many wounded men and women of benefits they deserve. Workplace violence?!

It'll be he same with this one.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:43pm PT
ISIS taking a village. Very systematic.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:47pm PT
Oh, yeah, you can be very systematic when there's no resistance.

I'd like to see how systematic they are with an AC130 orbiting overhead.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
They aren't behaving in a warm and fuzzy manner. I'm finding it harder and harder to be sympathetic.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 26, 2014 - 06:10pm PT
We've gotta be careful



WBraun

climber
Sep 26, 2014 - 08:24pm PT
Jolly Roger's got right.

And if you still believe the main slime media

Then you are stupid sheep eating from the wolves hands ......
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 26, 2014 - 08:25pm PT
KShalom...Workers comp doesn't cover jihad break down...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 26, 2014 - 08:52pm PT
Duffield...What was the Ice Us diaper head dude shooting at..? His accuracy seemed to be lacking...No wonder they resort to beheadings....They can't hit sh#t with modern weaponry..?
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 26, 2014 - 10:09pm PT
Sep 26, 2014 - 05:09pm PT
The CIA is laughing their asses off knowing how stupid Americans fell for that phoney beheading stunt.

Now they have the green light to Syria.

Americans are stupid sheep .....

Hmmm. Let's take this a step further. Beheading videos with good production value, but no heads. I haven't seen them, but I hear there's no severed heads. Why would they do that? I hear they are ruthless.
Are they not really beheadings the hostages? Are they drawing us into a quagmire? Whatever, it seems to be working.
I do think they killed the hostages. I don't believe it's a CIA plot. But it's interesting.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Sep 26, 2014 - 10:29pm PT
Nomi Prins — US Financial Boots on the Ground
September 26, 2014

Gateway Policies: ISIS, Obama and US Financial Boots-on-the-Ground

President Obama’s neo-Cold War is not about ideology or respect for borders. It is about money and global power. The current battle over control of gateway nations – strategic locations in which private firms can establish the equivalent of financial boots-on-the-ground – is being waged in the Middle East and Ukraine under the auspices of freedom and western capitalism (er, “democracy”). In these global gateways, private banks can infiltrate resource-rich locales fortified by political will, public aid and military support to garner lucrative market advantages. ISIS poses a threat to global gateway control that transcends any human casualties. That’s why Congress decided to authorize funds to fight ISIS despite the risk.

The common thread of today’s global gateway nations appears to be oil. But even more valuable are the multitude of financing deals that would accompany building new pipelines, arming allies, and reconstructing civil-war-torn countries. Indeed, hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake in America’s wars of “principle.”

Middle-East Gateways: ISIS and Money

Obama’s recent public address on fighting ISIS had a dash of economy sprinkled in. For him, US economic policy is foreign policy. It is also a product of an American political-financial expansionary land-and-resource grab that has been going on for decades. Obama’s execution may be far less authoritative than President Eisenhower’s. But his neo-financial Cold War has similar elements to those initiated by Eisenhower and the American banking elite in the 1950s when they collaborated to project American power into more countries, using the military and a combination of public and private capital, as tools.

The second World Bank President and 1950s Chairman of Chase Bank, John McCloy, and ascending and later Chase Chairman David Rockefeller both had aspirations to financially penetrate the Middle East. So did other major bankers. The US government and its banks first focused on Beirut as a gateway to the Middle East. Eisenhower dispatched military personnel to Beirut in 1958 not because he cared about the Lebanese, but because of the attractiveness of the country’s potential as a gateway to the region. By the 1970s, oil and money relationships between Chase and Saudi Arabia and Egypt grew, as they did with Iran and the Shah.

Rockefeller’s relationship with the Shah, who kept his family money with Chase, ignited the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979. Before that, the US government and its military contractors made billions of dollars from arms deals with Iran.

Citigroup opened its first Iraq branch in September 2013, ten years after George W. Bush began his Iraq War while facing a recessed American economy. A decade ago, the Bush administration selected JPM Chase to manage billions of dollars of financing for Iraq imports and exports. JPM Chase also opened a branch in Iraq last year to compete with Citigroup for current gains. Billions of dollars in new pipeline funding and other projects are now up for grabs in Iraq. If the US supports the Iraqi government (against ISIS), these banks, as well as oil and infrastructure-building companies are poised to get more of a chunk of that money. Citigroup is already a forerunner for arranging a $2 billion loan for Boeing Jets to Iraq. As Iraq’s Deputy Transport Minister Bangen Rekani said in April, “We need a lot of funds…we’re in a race to complete the maximum number of projects in a short time.”

Regarding Syria, Obama’s plea for showing strength worked. Congress voted in rare bipartisan fashion to fund the moderate Syrian rebels or “free Syrian army rebels.” According to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, initial assistance would be “small arms, vehicles and basic equipment like communications, as well as tactical and strategic training.” That could just be the beginning. He also said, “as these forces prove their effectiveness on the battlefield, we would be prepared to provide increasingly sophisticated types of assistance.” We’ve been down this road before, positioning the military to gain financial access to an area relative to our competition. It’s lasted for years and killed thousands of people, while not accomplishing the stated goal of curtailing terrorist threats or activities.

It gets complicated from there. Moderate Syrian rebels have been fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom the US would support against ISIS. The US thinks these forces would cease fighting against al-Assad to fight ISIS instead, though the US claims it is not directly cooperating with al-Assad.

Despite this, the US financial hope is that once the dust clears from all these regime changes we support militarily, there will be demand for massive reconstruction and resource extraction projects that our private banks can take care of alongside the IMF and World Bank. At a press conference in Beirut in June, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told the international community that the World Bank would help to rebuild Syria (at a cost of $150 billion after an “internationally recognized government” was put in place) as well as Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq during their ‘recovery’ from years of war. Mega reconstruction profits are at stake for private firms in symbiotic partnerships with these international entities. So too, are the requirements for austerity and loosely regulated financial markets as the Western “reform” bargains that accompany them.

“Wars on terror” serve as a distraction in public and media discourse from a bipolar economy. The September releases of the US Census Report and the Federal Reserve Consumer Finance Survey revealed an ongoing trend toward greater income and wealth inequality. We remain 8 million jobs below pre-crisis levels, adjusted for population growth. Real wages have stagnated or declined. Employers have no incentive to provide well-paying jobs amidst ample desperation in the ranks of the unemployed. We are a mess at home.

Rather than deal with this, the US is trying to prevent terrorism from blocking private bank and corporate expansions and profit elsewhere. ISIS has already caused Iraq to delay its first mega project-finance deal. The $18 billion Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline would extend through Jordan to the Red Sea, pumping a million barrels of crude oil per day, as well as 258 million cubic feet of gas. That’s a hefty financial incentive for which to use public funds.

Truth be told, the game of global gateway finance is a closed one. And there’s still Russia (and China) playing at the same table. In August 2014, Russia’s biggest oil company, Lukoil, estimated construction of the first branch of a pipeline to Iraq’s West Qurna-2 field at a cost of up to $1 billion. Lukoil holds a 75% stake in West Qurna-2 and has invested over $4 billion in the project, which is already producing more than 200,000 barrels of oil per day.

Cold-War Gateways: From Cuba to the Ukraine

The narrative of Russia’s aggression vs. America’s fight for freedom dovetails with the turmoil going on in the Middle East. Both situations deflect attention from our country, which has greater inequality today than before Obama took office, despite a soaring stock market buoyed by the Fed’s stimulus policy of pumping zero-interest rate money into banks providing them capital for all of these international adventures.

After Ukrainian President Poroshenko, a former banker and chocolate mogul, proclaimed the situation with Russia was much improved following his truce with Vladimir Putin, President Obama ratcheted up sanctions against Russia and corralled the rest of the Euro-squad to join him. This action was not about saving Kiev from pro-Russian rebels, but to reinforce the notion that the US is in financial control of the country. Poroshenko is no financial dummy, which is why he threw Putin and any potential Russian economic support under the bus, and high-tailed it to Washington for photo-ops and handouts.

These will come in the form of US government aid, more loans from the IMF and World Bank, plus complex transactions with US banks seeking more areas in which to funnel foreign capital, finance projects, and down the line, maybe securitize the resources of a new corner of the world and sell them to a fresh bunch of hungry speculators. The US has already provided $60 million in aid including food, body armor and communications equipment to the Ukraine to secure its place at this gateway table later.

Stepping back in time, my book, All the Presidents’ Bankers illustrates how President Eisenhower’s 1950s doctrine promoted a combination of US military and economic support to its non-communist allies. Aid from the then-new World Bank and IMF was provided in return for their commitment to provide open trade relationships and adapt policies advantageous to private western banks and corporations. The US government could thus achieve a dual military and financial stronghold. One such country was Cuba, which under Fulgencio Batista became a favorite spot from which to access Latin and South America. National City Bank (now Citigroup) established 11 branches in Havana alone, becoming Cuba’s principle US depository for American companies involved in the sugar industry and other businesses there. That changed with the Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro, who, in 1960, nationalized foreign bank assets. Bankers looked elsewhere to expand, as did the US government.

In Obama’s political-financial strategy, similar gateway strategies are in play. Obama, like all US presidents since Castro came into power, did the communist-bravado thing and extended sanctions. US bankers will reenter Cuba when US policy changes after Castro is truly gone, as they have during several periods before, notably when National City Bank sent an entourage of bankers led by Chairman Charles Mitchell in the 1920s to explore sugar, nickel, and other deals that eventually soured in the 1929 Crash.

The Ukraine is a modern Cuba with more lucrative resources. As with other US financial gateways, Obama supported the Ukraine faction amenable to financial relationships with the US and Europe relative to Russia. Ten years ago, the Bush administration supported Ukrainian leaders sympathizing with the US vs. Russia as well. None of this was because of any purported interest in dispersing democracy, but because the right leadership offers more capital market, foreign investment and resource control opportunities to private US firms.

The Ukraine signed a $10 billion shale gas deal with US oil giant Chevron to explore its Olesky gas deposit around the time it expressed a desire for closer partnerships with the EU. Its ousted ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to subsequently shun an EU trade agreement in favor of Putin’s offer of cheaper gas and a $15 billion aid package provoked internal unrest, as did its weak economy. The US denounced Russian-backed President Yanukovych, until he left his post, for he represented a potential loss of money, power and more financial access. Ukraine stands between Russian oil producers and European and Asian consumers, and is poised to profit from any growing energy demands from Western Europe, as could Western private firms. It also serves as a potential financial out-post for US banks hunting for the next hot resource-saturated capital market.

Ironically, on September 17, 2014, the National Bank of Ukraine did a 180 spin on its economic forecasts and promised positive growth of 1% next year. The government said this economic expansion would come through more favorable corporate and income tax laws that would attract outside investors along the lines of what the US and IMF and World Bank has wanted. (More private relationships of bankers with these entities are in All the Presidents’ Bankers.) The Ukraine received two parts of a $17 billion IMF bailout this year with the IMF saying it may need $19 billion more. This means a greater call on Ukraine’s future revenues in return for austerity measures and deregulated financial markets to private foreign interests.

The real battle between the US and Russia is over the gateway countries in political flux. The real winners will be the private banks and oil companies that will reap the strategic benefits from gateway control over related markets and resources, supported by military and political might, and augmented with speculative capital for years to come. American and global citizens, oblivious to all this, will be the losers in this global shell game.

http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2014/9/21/gateway-policies-isis-obama-and-us-financial-boots-on-the-gr.html

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 27, 2014 - 04:46am PT
Duffield...What was the Ice Us diaper head dude shooting at..?

Prolly just in their general direction to keep them pinned down while the rest of the guys move in. Their style, is to stun them with a suicide truck, then storm the place.

They did that last w/e at an Iraqi Army Base they had surrounded. The Iraqis see a convop of HumVees and assume they are liberators and let them in. Was Ice Us. oops.

You want beheading? ^^
http://alplatformmedia.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=51
7SacredPools

Trad climber
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Sep 27, 2014 - 05:15am PT
Kos said..."For many Americans, the attitude toward the Bales incident is basically "f*#k 'em, they're just brown people." But these things are not so easily dismissed by the Islamic world, who sees Americans as an invading force of murderers. With thousands of civilians dead as a result of US actions, they have strong argument when they call us the terrorists."

Worth repeating!
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 27, 2014 - 11:06am PT
The "Khorosan Group" is most likely an invention of our gov't to justify certain other actions.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388990/khorosan-group-does-not-exist-andrew-c-mccarthy
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 27, 2014 - 11:18am PT
Well Blue, that's probably not such a big deal, since you seem to support every military action no matter what.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 27, 2014 - 11:48am PT
Well Blue, that's probably not such a big deal, since you seem to support every military action no matter what.


Well, I opposed deposing Ghaddafi, I oppose deposing Assad, and helping to overthrow Egypt's Mubarrak was a bad idea.

Oh, and I oppose intervening in Ukraine/Russia.

But Iran? I may be down with that.

But gutting ISIS is really a no-brainer.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 27, 2014 - 02:02pm PT
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/breaking-muslims-shouting-praise-allah-surround-ok-police-following-press-conference-on-beheading/
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 27, 2014 - 02:18pm PT

As for the group in Oklahoma who were chanting praise allah and quoting the Koran in Arabic, if such a thing happens in my hood, there will be an instant reaction. If anyone dares to celebrate the beheading of an American here, they had better dig a hole and cover themselves quickly. I have about 20,000 rounds in various calibers, and im not afraid to use it.

Hopefully, you will be locked up long before then.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 27, 2014 - 02:25pm PT
Hopefully, you will be locked up long before then.

Yeah, so people like Ronnie should be locked up but we should just let Muzzies run around yelling 'Allan Snackbar' at police briefings where a clear Muzzie Jihadist cut an innocent lady's head off.

It's people like Ron, and the off-duty reserve sheriff in Ok. that actually stop this sh#t, dead in it's tracks.

Ron is a peaceful man, until you turn violent on people who are innocent. We need more Ronnies. They just may save your life.
Captain...or Skully

climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
Sep 27, 2014 - 03:10pm PT
I'm sure you'd know ALL about that. You've never seen PERIL face to face.
Armchair warriors are a real danger.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 27, 2014 - 03:32pm PT
I'm sure you'd know ALL about that. You've never seen PERIL face to face. Armchair warriors are a real danger.

What would a "warrior" like you do in a similar situation, Skully? Wet your pants, wait for the second ladies head to fall, or shoot the rotten SOB?
dirtbag

climber
Sep 27, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
Like I said earlier: ISIS is trolling us.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 27, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/26/taliban-in-afghanistan-behead-12-family-members-of/
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 27, 2014 - 06:20pm PT

Sep 27, 2014 - 02:25pm PT
Hopefully, you will be locked up long before then.

Yeah, so people like Ronnie should be locked up but we should just let Muzzies run around yelling 'Allan Snackbar' at police briefings

Muzzies? People like you and Ron, threatening to murder people for engaging in free speech, are a much bigger danger to America than ISIS.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 27, 2014 - 07:48pm PT

Like I said earlier: ISIS is trolling us.

i don't know? maybe ur giving them to much credit? The whole world is trolling us..

IS are just the pawns.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 27, 2014 - 08:29pm PT
Alright Alright, yuo've laid out what you would feel as capital punishment deserving. So where does that leave you in the end? Justified? right? maybe wrong? i could feel the same ways if someone beheaded a female in my family. But i'd like to think i would offer redemption IF he showed remorse.

is it your intention to just, "lay down the law"?
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 27, 2014 - 08:37pm PT
Rifleman Ron, it's only a matter of time before you're behind bars. I just hope your innocent victims survive.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Sep 27, 2014 - 09:04pm PT

spineless taking of shyt wasnt the status quo

For me atleast, i was rigid and got stoned, did some stoning, found myself, and relinquished my judge and jury possession status.

but we all have our jobs to do.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 27, 2014 - 09:18pm PT
Get some help, Rifleman, Ron, before you harm an innocent person. You are a really sick person.


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Carson Valley Medical Center
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bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 27, 2014 - 11:22pm PT
Crankster, you're projecting. You're actually hoping that Ron is your stereotypical right-wing Tea Party crazy guy who just wants to kill Muzzies.

You are half-right. He doesn't WANT to, but he's willing to do the job when he's called on to do so.

It's weird that people like you focus on the Ron's in our society and not the actual beheaders. That woman who lost her life did nothing wrong except show up for work.

Her grandchildren will have this event forever in their minds. And I have a feeling her children will have a whole new "appreciation" of Muslims....

People keep saying that WE create terrorists. I would argue that THEY are helping us right along.

There's a fundamental difference in how Americans conduct themselves in war and combat. We NEVER target civilians, and usually suffer strategic and human losses to avoid these tragedies.

The enemy has no such morals. They kill and murder indiscriminately.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 28, 2014 - 12:42am PT
It's about f*#king time!!!

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/148857-iraq-s-christians-start-taking-security-into-own-hands
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 28, 2014 - 12:55am PT
Hmmm...the cancer appears to be spreading

http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=09/28/2014&SO=&HC=1&ID=400887
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 28, 2014 - 05:42am PT

TFPU!

[quote]It's about f*#king time!!!

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/148857-iraq-s-christians-start-taking-security-into-own-hands[/quote]

The ISIS phenomenon, has changed my views on the gun culture here. There's millions of refugees now, from Syria, if ISIS Had been getting shot at from every house, there wouldn't be so many refugees. The millions of refugees are the true heartbreak and danger. Lots of unhappy kids to grow up and be unhappy adults.


One day, we will be fighting here.

mtnyoung

Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Sep 28, 2014 - 07:42am PT
TGT provides a link about a supposed crowd of Muslims shouting "praise Allah" at an Oklahoma press conference after the beheading. Two posters here seem to believe that TGT's link describes something that really happened (a little predisposed to believe the worst maybe?).

Does he ever check his stuff? Thank goodness for Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/info/news/beheaded.asp

From near the end of their entry on this subject:


Later in the day of the stabbings, a photograph was circulated online with the claim that it showed Muslims surrounding Oklahoma cops and shouting 'Praise Allah'

Moore Police Department Public Affairs Officer Jeremy Lewis was asked if there was a group of Muslims protesting after the press conference, and he stated, 'No, there was not.'"

[Photo caption removed from the copied/pasted quote above]

I think we can agree that this comment from Snopes at least seems to imply that no such protests occurred. So I guess we should ask ourselves who we can better trust, Snopes or a link provided by TGT?
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 28, 2014 - 08:25am PT
They were shouting at the snackbar...
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 08:27am PT
So, blue, you support Rifleman Ron heading to Oklahoma to murder innocent civilians who are exercising their frees speech right.
Ron, obviously, is mentally ill and needs to be locked up. Now I'm wondering about you.

Not to mention that the event in question didn't happen. Even the far right web says so...
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/09/27/Oklahoma-Police-Say-Muslim-Protest-And-Chanting-Reports-False

You rightwing NUTS are really nuts.
WBraun

climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 08:35am PT
So are YOU ... you stupid nutcase ^^^^

You believe everything you read and over react like the little crybaby weirdo you always are.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 08:38am PT
WB, can't you go away for about three months? Seriously.

I really can't think of anything more immature and tedious than your posts dealing with politics or religion. Grow up.

.....

Hey it's as if the last couple minutes of this one were written just for tvash!

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDFrNQAjDYA
mtnyoung

Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Sep 28, 2014 - 08:44am PT
It's how it's done Crankster, doncha know?

The wingnuts get the simple folk to fear brown people. It's not that hard to do, it's a great first step, and it establishes their "credibility."

Then, having set the hook, Wingnuts Inc. get the simple folk to believe their other myths, like:

 Cutting taxes creates jobs (gufaw, snort...);

 Climate change is a myth (simple minds believe simple lies if they are repeated a lot - just ask Joseph);

 The Government is the problem (like any human-made institution it's got it's problems, but any institution that could create a great civilian controlled military, or that could create a system of wilderness protection unparalleled in human history... well you get the idea: it's got it's good points.)

Yep, Werner's right - "stoopidd Americans" (he just doesn't get it though that he's right for the wrong reasons - and it's not like Americans have the stoopidd market cornered among the human race.)

End of Sunday morning rant (off now to work on firewood).
WBraun

climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 09:41am PT
CNN = CIA news network.

Total propaganda disinfo and other lying, spin etc.

Main slime media at it's finest to keep the sheep brainwashed ....

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 28, 2014 - 10:42am PT
Here's a demo, of why airpower, wont' get them. Seems obvious, they know the plane is overhead and they unass the howitzer.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Sep 28, 2014 - 11:28am PT
The little weirdo insecure virus mold nutcase crankcase always needs to have the last say.

Believes everything he reads on a stupid blog thread.

Total insecure little anonymous creep ....

crankster=lame

government is working with tech companies on the "Krypto-currencies"!
ISIS using bitcoin to get $$$.
Degaine

climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 11:48am PT
tioga wrote:
Lemmings in tundra develop overpopulation once in few years...when this happens, they head to the sea, jump in and drown.


That is incorrect. The "lemming suicide" is a myth. Just doesn't happen. Plus, they're relatively good swimmers.

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 28, 2014 - 12:13pm PT
Duffield, sometimes they might hear the jets overhead but quite often
they won't. If the jet is headed towards them at Mach .85 or so he can
launch his JDAM many miles before they can hear him. He can also climb
high and glide into range with nary a peep.

"You can run, but you'll just die tired."
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Sep 28, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
Here is a link to the main newspaper in Oklahoma. It has a lot of stories about what has gone down here. We don't have crowds of muslims chanting, for example.

http://newsok.com/?news

By the way, it is and always has been a very right wing newspaper.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 02:26pm PT
He certainly would have killed more if he had a gun. Like one purchased at Rifleman Ron's gun 'n ammo depot.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 28, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
He certainly would have killed more if he had a gun.

That would have been so unislamic.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 28, 2014 - 03:59pm PT
Ron's shop sells machetes and swords if you're into Isalami head jobs...?
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 28, 2014 - 05:35pm PT
looks to me, like you can both hear and see the jet

[Click to View YouTube Video]
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 28, 2014 - 08:25pm PT
Hey, S(pud), you're wound up pretty tight, even for a right winger. Maybe take a long cruise. Here's your ship, dickhead...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 28, 2014 - 09:01pm PT
Duh-Field..Reilly is one of those Navy guys like the Chief...You can't expect them to know much about aeronautics...Give them some slack...rj
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 28, 2014 - 10:23pm PT
RJ, slack?

UP ROPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Duffield, did you read all the words in my post? What I didn't say is
that most of the time these days the bad guys are only gonna hear us if we want
them to or if it doesn't matter. The main reason they're gonna hear us now
is because the ROE's are so heavily tilted to prevent 'collateral damage' that
we have to orbit until some dipshit with scrambled eggs on his cap decides
it is safe to kill someone.

And while you probably don't care I am not convinced this campaign will really
do that much good in the long run. That said, whatever is happening couldn't
happen to a more deserving bunch of sickos. The trouble is soon they're
gonna start hiding amongst the women and children cause they're chicken shits
at heart.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 29, 2014 - 07:20am PT
It will certainly keep them from creating the perfect little caliphate they thought they had embarked on.

It will keep them reduced to the evil trolls they are.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 29, 2014 - 08:17am PT
I'm curious what your solution would be tioga?
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 09:49am PT
By every metric President Obama has increased border security while the do-nothing Republican congress refuses to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
WBraun

climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 09:59am PT
Brainwashed fool who believes everything he reads ^^^^^^
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 29, 2014 - 10:18am PT
What is it about OK and sudden jihadi syndrome?

http://newsok.com/article/5346476
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 10:21am PT
crankster, he really is a fly in the ointment, isn't he? or a fly in the soup, lol!

Some people just do not belong on the internet, sad to say. But what's there to do.
WBraun

climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 10:26am PT
Hahaha you proved my point you insecure anonymous whinny little girly man ....
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 29, 2014 - 10:29am PT
fortunately, we're not the only ones being trolled. There's something about a guy, taking advantage of a Western education, then flying to the third world and conning all the rubes there - seems really wrong.

Fortunately, the Bangledeshi gummint agrees.

I'm guessing, in a race, the Brits will rip up a passport faster than those clowns in D.C. Our gummint still doesn't get it.


http://news.sky.com/story/1344012/british-islamic-state-recruiter-arrested

A British man has been arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting people to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Syria.

Samiun Rahman, who is from London, arrived in the country in February to find fighters for both IS and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, according to Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division (DCID).

"He has plans to recruit and send a team from Bangladesh to fight in Syria," Commissioner Monirul said.


Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 29, 2014 - 11:19am PT
Have we justified the purchase of the next 2 Trillion dollar weapons program and x billion dollar non-functional Oracle ERP yet? Yes? OK, let's resume the regular programming of "bread and circuses".
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 29, 2014 - 11:39am PT
Yeah, that's what it's all about.^^ Our President, was on TV last night, saying they underestimated ISIS.

Instead of firing the incompetent "intelligence" ass clowns,there will need to be MOAR money allocated to spy. Eric Snowden wasn't even a speed bump for these hide bound beauros.

sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Sep 29, 2014 - 11:46am PT
This circus involves juggling severed heads. Bread is delicious, though. I wonder if the US is aware of the legend of the Hydra?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 29, 2014 - 11:49am PT
saying they underestimated ISIS.

More accurate to say He underestimated,

and won't listen.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 11:54am PT
I wonder if the US is aware of the legend of the Hydra?

I know certain members of S.H.I.E.L.D. were, lol!
WBraun

climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 01:12pm PT
Netanyahu Links Hamas With ISIS, and Equates ISIS With Iran -- New York Times

Typical lying aszhole Netanyahu and NYT is in concert with all those lying pricks.

NYT is worst lying main slime media outlet around.

Just as we expect from that aszhole terrorist Netanyahu himself to say this.

Netanyahu is the biggest terrorist on the planet period .....
dirtbag

climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 01:26pm PT

For ANYONE that publically celebrates and praises allafukkbar over the beheading of an American Citizen in her own country,, the GIVE UP any such rights as they too act the radical Islamic terrorist. And I dam well would be happy to send them to their 72 virgins via 1900 fps and 110 grains of lead.

But in your book, guys who threaten federal officials who are enforcing grazing laws are heroes.

Maybe you and your Oath Keeper Boy Scout troop should re-read that Constitution thingie that you and your troop proudly and ignorantly claim you are defending.
ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Sep 29, 2014 - 01:32pm PT
Ron, let's go back to where you said
...As for the group in Oklahoma who were chanting praise allah and quoting the Koran in Arabic, if such a thing happens in my hood, there will be an instant reaction. If anyone dares to celebrate the beheading of an American here, they had better dig a hole and cover themselves quickly. I have about 20,000 rounds in various calibers, and im not afraid to use it.

You have no respect for the rule of law and the rights granted by The Constitution. The First Amendment gives everyone the right to free speech. Apparently, when you don't like what other citizens say you find it perfectly acceptable to threaten to use violence. (I would say "use violence," but we all know the ONLY action you will ever take is to type away on your computer.)

You are neither a patriot nor revolutionary. You are simply a weak, ignorant, frightened thug that is just waiting for the opportunity to cheer on other misguided men who will actually follow through with the stupid actions that you are (thankfully) too cowardly to do.

Maybe you should think about getting laid, Ron. Be honest; how many years has it been since you have been with a woman (or man)? You ever think that if you stepped away from the dead animals, guns and computer that you might meet someone and be able to create some real happiness for yourself? Seriously, you need to get a life.
ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Sep 29, 2014 - 01:39pm PT
Coward.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 29, 2014 - 01:43pm PT
What makes a Hindu all knowing elephant head anti semitic?
ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Sep 29, 2014 - 01:46pm PT
I am FAR from anonymous. Even if I was, that has nothing to do with the fact that you advocate murder and shitting on the first amendment. "Oath Keeper" my ass. You are just a coward and a bigot who sits on the sidelines cheering on those who at least have the conviction to take action.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 02:01pm PT
someone gets beheaded in Carson city over being non islamic and a group forms to praise them, they do indeed act as support to those who would do this shyt. Morally wrong as wrong can be. And yes, my militia will respond.

When Rifleman Ron has his preliminary hearing I'll work to make sure this is entered into evidence. The guy is a certified whacko.

For the record, this airhead is talking about an incident that DIDN'T HAPPEN!
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
You'll be locked up long before ISIS storms the borders, RR.
ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Sep 29, 2014 - 02:11pm PT
Ron said:
And yes, my militia will respond.

Coward.

You won't respond to sh#t. You will sit your old, bitter, bigoted ass in front of the computer and type.

"Oath Keeper?" LOL!

Words - Action = Sh#t.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 29, 2014 - 02:34pm PT
It would be an interesting experiment to air drop people who get into a tit for tat fight like this into a vast expanse of desert and see what kind of working relationship they can develop in a hurry to get themselves out alive.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 29, 2014 - 02:37pm PT
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/09/26/is_it_time_for_general_dempsey_to_resign

Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 29, 2014 - 02:54pm PT
Ha!

I was once on a program that required a $2 million dollar Oracle database system for a database with a single table. And it was so slow it was completely unusable.


These guys are so good at bilking the government they should be deemed a terrorist organization in their own right.

WTF does anyone care what Obama or any other politician says about the latest brouhaha. Just follow the money. Same players, in for another round. I wish they'd just take the money and spare us the narrative.

It's all for God and Country, right patriots? LOL, please... roll another joint
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 29, 2014 - 07:49pm PT
http://sofrep.com/37100/pkkypg-launch-suicide-attack-isis-tanks/
7SacredPools

Trad climber
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Sep 29, 2014 - 09:30pm PT
Someone suggested that "cowardly" ISIS will hide among their women and children. That would be pretty stupid.
Since when has the U.S. ever been adverse to blowing up, poisoning, or burning women and children when they are near, or considered, a "legitimate" target?

All this moral indignation stinks. Perhaps the West should get the f*#k out of the ME and let them redraw the borders to suit their needs, not those of imperialists.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 29, 2014 - 10:48pm PT
Perhaps the West should get the f*#k out of the ME and let them redraw the borders to suit their needs

Alas, if only the West could.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 07:00am PT
Or we could all just get escorts
Srbphoto

climber
Kennewick wa
Sep 30, 2014 - 07:04am PT
yeah, but the escorts are from Dubai. It really is a never ending circle.
bookworm

Social climber
Falls Church, VA
Sep 30, 2014 - 07:48am PT
"Perhaps the West should get the f*#k out of the ME and let them redraw the borders to suit their needs, not those of imperialists."

and if we treat hamas and the muslim brotherhood, etc., with respect and generosity, they'll see the error of their ways and become cooperative, liberal, freedom-loving states ready to engage the world through diplomacy rather than beheading; yes, they'll give full legal rights to women, stop executing homosexuals and stoning adultresses, stop cutting the clitorises (clitori?) off little girls and allow those girls to go to school, stop killing their sisters and daughters for being raped, stop exploding bombs in crowded markets, stop indocrinating their children in violent jihad, stop killing christians (wait, you libs don't care about that--sorry), stop killing jews (oops, my bad), stop killing muslims at a rate exponentially greater than those killed by non-muslims...

i guess that explains this:

http://www.g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GAI-Report-PDB-Update-9.29.2014.pdf

isis? nothing to see, here...where's my next fundraiser?
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:03am PT
Things are going incredibly badly. Not a bad thing, in the end, the world needs to see what evil looks like. Nipping it prematurely, and the lesson is lost.

item: Various Syrian groups are becoming pissed over the US airstrikes. No surprise here, as soon as we get in, it becomes all about us. See Iraq 2006.

item: The Iraqi Army continues to lose. At least they know better than to surrender and throw themselves on the tender mercies of the Islamic State.


Fighters from the Islamic State in Anbar Province ambushed and destroyed a large Iraqi Army column in a village north of Ramadi. The successful attack occurred despite almost eight weeks of airstrikes by the US military on Islamic State forces throughout Iraq.

Pictures from the recent fighting in the village of Albu Aytha, which is just north of Ramadi, across the river, have been disseminated on Twitter by fighters and supporters of the Islamic State. The Islamic State has taken to releasing its propaganda via its supporters on Twitter as the the majority of its official accounts are continuously being suspended by the social media site.


Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/islamic_state_overru_4.php#ixzz3EoMQNQnT

a US Abrams tank getting destroyed


High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:05am PT
No bookworm, the counter idea / strategy is,

in time, ISIS, in order to be sustainable, would have to form something along the lines of city-states and leadership groups and then the West could more effectively target them.

Instead of what's extant now: ragtag packs roaming about everywhere in the Levant.
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:39am PT
things are going incredibly badly

LOL, no. They are going exactly according to plan.
bookworm

Social climber
Falls Church, VA
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:52am PT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2774122/Obama-accurate-intelligence-ISIS-BEFORE-2012-election-says-administration-insider.html

because ferguson
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Sep 30, 2014 - 12:15pm PT
King Putt would rather go golfing than do his job.

A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.

The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second.

The GAI’s alarming findings come on the heels of Obama’s 60 Minutes comments on Sunday, wherein the president laid the blame for the Islamic State’s (ISIS) rapid rise squarely at the feet of his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said Obama.

According to Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake, members of the Defense establishment were “flabbergasted” by Obama’s attempt to shift blame.

“Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” a former senior Pentagon official “who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq” told the Daily Beast.

On Monday, others in the intelligence community similarly blasted Obama and said he’s shown longstanding disinterest in receiving live, in-person PDBs that allow the Commander-in-Chief the chance for critical followup, feedback, questions, and the challenging of flawed intelligence assumptions.

“It's pretty well-known that the president hasn’t taken in-person intelligence briefings with any regularity since the early days of 2009,” an Obama national security staffer told the Daily Mail on Monday. “He gets them in writing.”

The Obama security staffer said the president’s PDBs have contained detailed threat warnings about the Islamic State dating back to before the 2012 presidential election.

“Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president's daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,” the Obama security staffer told the Daily Mail.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 30, 2014 - 12:20pm PT
Well, they've captured another Iraqi Base, executed 300 soldiers and are nearly in Baghdad. I've been watching Stalingrad footage and believe that's the way it will go. The side with the best snipers, will win.

Too bad we can't sue Cheney for the Billion we wasted on the Baghdad Embassy.
bookworm

Social climber
Falls Church, VA
Sep 30, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
how does barry plan to avoid civilian deaths in his syria bombing? (not that libs would hold him to the same standards you did bush)

easy, lower the standards himself:

http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-exempts-syria-airstrikes-from-tight-standards-on-civilian-deaths-183724795.html


see, barry is allowed to kill all the civilians he wants (even american citizens and their children) because...well...why exactly?
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 30, 2014 - 01:22pm PT
no wonder they hate us
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 30, 2014 - 01:25pm PT
Oh yaaay, booky is back!




Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 30, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
Rag tag bands of wal mart warriors across the sea "threaten" you, personally, here in smalltown, usa. You must agree that we should spend Billions, even Trillions to contain them (and again in 5 years, ad nauseum). I mean, they have shown they can blow up a tank somewhere, on some vacant lot, haven't they? Grainy footage says... YES! Tough stuff. Wow. I mean, they are about to take over the world next. Who could possibly stop them?

or

Maybe just somebody here wants money or votes for their bloated projects.

I'm going with the latter.


Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play da beheading on da CNN
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's
WBraun

climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 01:46pm PT
Yeah ^^^^^ so right.

Americans are so stooopid falling for every stooopid bullsh!t false flag the criminals in DC are throwing at us.

Americans are afraid of beheadings?

Americans have lost their heads years ago and there's no heads left to behead.

Sheep .......
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:01pm PT
The successful attack occurred despite almost eight weeks of airstrikes

Excellent... keep the orders coming. Once they see how much this costs, we can start the political name calling feature set our agency has developed. I wonder how much we can shake out of the pig this time around? Our analysts agree it's good for at least a couple hundred million and an extension on our existing contracts. Thank you, Senator.
WBraun

climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:09pm PT
They gave Israel 5 billion so they can murder a few more thousands and keep their bullsh!t war cries towards Iran going.

So many fuking lies by these Criminals in DC, Israel and Britain .....
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:17pm PT
Rag tag bands of wal mart warriors across the sea "threaten" you, personally, here in smalltown, usa. You must agree that we should spend Billions, even Trillions to contain them (and again in 5 years, ad nauseum). I mean, they have shown they can blow up a tank somewhere, on some vacant lot, haven't they? Grainy footage says... YES! Tough stuff. Wow. I mean, they are about to take over the world next. Who could possibly stop them?

You laugh? In Denmark, they've stopped laughing.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/denmark-christians-flee-muslim-dominated-areas-they-tell-me-i-ought-to-be-stoned-to-death

One day she sat in her car in Nørrebro (a Muslim-dominated area in Copenhagen). Seven young people with Arab background surrounded the car. One of them put his foot up on the hood and stared at her.

“Do you think I’m looking at you, you f*#king ugly whore. Try to see what clothes you wear, bitch,” he said to Jojo, who dresses as Danish women do: shorts and a t-shirt in the summer.

Then he noticed the cross around her neck.

“Well, you have a cross on — then you are also a Christian f*#king whore. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned,” he screamed. …
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:24pm PT
OMG John, it would have been so much scarier if you said they were both BLACK and MUSLIM. Can we work that one in somewhere? Somehow tie it to religious freedom? Good one on dropping the CHRISTIAN reference though. I mean, that will get you some points...

I just can't get scared enough with this one, personally. Talk to the strategists, I'm sure we can use it somewhere. I mean, in contrast the incidents in American cities on a daily basis that don't evoke race or religion but mere criminal mayhem simply don't push the money buttons. Maybe work in "dark" somehow. Clothing? Something that evokes that. Remember our target audience.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:35pm PT
They start messing with my women, I'm not gonna get skeered, I'm gonna deal with it.
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:45pm PT
They start messing with my women, I'm not gonna get skeered, I'm gonna deal with it.

I see your point, it's clear that Muslim minority communities across the western countries are a grave threat to our women. We need to keep pushing those buttons, I agree. But how do we link this the purchase of our weapon systems? Always be thinking that angle... that's how get paid.

Maybe plug this stuff into the mind map software we pay a boatload for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Get some other correlations we can use that will be jarring that don't seem immediately related.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 30, 2014 - 02:58pm PT
Rag tag bands of wal mart warriors across the sea "threaten" you, personally, here in smalltown, usa. You must agree that we should spend Billions, even Trillions to contain them (and again in 5 years, ad nauseum). I mean, they have shown they can blow up a tank somewhere, on some vacant lot, haven't they? Grainy footage says... YES!

How right you are. 9/11 could never happen again.....
Binks

climber
Uranus
Sep 30, 2014 - 03:03pm PT
^^ You're right the TSA has solved everything. Somehow boltcutters are still legal though,... I can't figure that one out.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Sep 30, 2014 - 04:56pm PT
Yes. I think we need to focus on things here. They have issues to sort out among themselves.

I believe Iran will invade Iraq at some point. There was a war during the 80s, IIRC. Went on for like 10 years. I don't think, the foreign policy fools processed, that the war, wasn't between two countries, but two branches of Islam.
ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Sep 30, 2014 - 04:58pm PT
But Dave, those dirty Muslims are beheading people and messing with our white women! They must be stopped! It is important!
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Sep 30, 2014 - 05:11pm PT
Iran's not likely to invade Iraq.

Not nearly as likely as we are, anyway.
WBraun

climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:03pm PT
I don't want another 9/11 to happen.
But if it does, it won't be as bad as many things that are already happening consistently every year.

Oh yeah!

The nutcases that did that last 911 (Dick Cheney along all his nutcase friends) are now talking
a Nuke False flag to blame on whomever they need to to make their next big American invasion happen.

All for the dollar that needs to remain secure and the oil that needs to keep flowing to the American beast called the motor vehicle ......
7SacredPools

Trad climber
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:34pm PT
You'd think Dick Cheese made enough on the last war/wars.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 06:43pm PT
The nutcases that did that last 911 (Dick Cheney along all his nutcase friends) are now talking
a Nuke False flag to blame on whomever they need to to make their next big American invasion happen.

dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:48pm PT

ISIS fighters now 'at the gates of Baghdad': Islamic militants fighting
just one mile from Iraqi capital' despite days Western airstrikes.

Fierce clashes between jihadists and government forces near Iraqi capital.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655977/ISIS-militants-march-Baghdad-trademark-bullet-head-gets-way-control-north.html\\

Feeling manipulated for sure.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:43pm PT
The Kurds are the single best hope of ground attacks against ISIS.

They are holding Kobane (Ayn Al Arab) in N. Syria and have circled ISIS in N Iraq near the Syrian border, North of Mosul.

The Kurds need heavy weapons and air support. They have minimal air support right now but for some reason we are denying them heavy weapons, and telling allies to do the same.

The Kurds are the only ones to be trusted in the area. They have proven their worth.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:46pm PT
Al Jazeera reports they got USA and RAF air power today.
Turks will send in ground troops.

Hope it's not to fight Kurds.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/isil-under-heavy-assault-kurds-iraq-2014930124122402745.html
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 11:16pm PT
Agree, the Kurds are key. But it's tricky. They are not a sovereign country. We are trying to strengthen Iraq. We are also destroying the heavy weapons ISIS has seized.

But I think it's inevitable.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-allies-training-kurds-on-using-sophisticated-weaponry-against-islamic-state-1411339625
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 11:17pm PT
I heard that too, Lorenzo, but they (Kurds) need heavy weapons to control the ground attacks.

The Kurds are not whiners, but they are begging us for more heavy weapons. Anti-armor rockets, tanks, and artillery.

I think we should oblige them. They are the 'boots on the ground' that is needed.

EDIT: Crankster, maybe the Kurds should have their own little piece of Iraq. I think they've f*#king earned it! Kurdistan.
crankster

Trad climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 11:21pm PT
No argument there.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 1, 2014 - 07:00am PT
The kurds will never get the heavy weapons they need, simply because to do so would be admitting that the "United Iraq" farce will never come true. Not there was ever any chance of that working to begin with. The whole situation is FUBAR at this point. Bomb all you want, it won't change anything.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 1, 2014 - 07:19am PT
There's a network of underground tunnels under Baghdad. ISIS, having ex Saddam people, will know where they are. They're big enough to move vehicles, our bunker busters may come into play.

I think Obama will come under increasing pressure as the fighting in Baghdad starts to go street by street. Iran, will feel pressured as well. The destruction of Holy Sites, surely must be playing on Irans nerves. ISIS tanks on the streets of Baghdad may be Irans "red line".

But there were a lot of people involved in the IEDs on our troops, over the years, and payback is being self inflicted.
rbord

Boulder climber
atlanta
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:39am PT
Hahaha you proved my point you insecure anonymous little girly man .....

Lol! You forgot to insult him with black and gay too. Or maybe sociopathic fantasy darkie with a gold digging girlfriend would have suited us better.

I love supertopo!
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 08:39pm PT
The kurds will never get the heavy weapons they need, simply because to do so would be admitting that the "United Iraq" farce will never come true. Not there was ever any chance of that working to begin with. The whole situation is FUBAR at this point. Bomb all you want, it won't change anything.


You're right in one regard. It IS FUBAR, but only because we are currently fighting a war, as you stated, for political reasons, not logical/strategic reasons.

The long-term, strategic move would be to empower the Kurds in order to counter the radicals. And there are many different flavors of radicals in the area, but the Kurds aren't one of them.

We are doing stupid, symbolic sh#t right now. We are not being strategically smart.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:31pm PT
Bluering...what would you expect from stupid Americans and CNN news...?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 3, 2014 - 08:03pm PT
So, Kobane (Aein Al Arab) is under steady assault from IS. Civi's have fled because they know that we, hopefully, will continue to bomb the piss out of it. The coalition knows where the Kurds are who are most definetly coordinating with US Spec-Ops guys guiding the strikes.

The problem is that we continue to deny heavy weapons to the Kurds who seem to be the best fighting force on the ground, as evidenced by the willingness of our spec-ops guys to insert with them.

This brings up questions. If we are inserting w/troops and guiding strikes with compatriots, why do we distrust them with arms support? The Kurds are waaaaay most solid than Iraqi regulars and Syrian 'moderate' militias.

The Kurds are the 'boots on the ground' that we don't want to send. They have the will, and we have the resources. Why not coordinate?

Especially since we don NOT have the will, but have all the resources.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/149494-kurdish-town-practically-empty-as-jihadists-press-assault

Read the last paragraph. I have never liked this president for many reasons, and one of the biggies is his obvious lack of support of our armed forces and allies.

And I did criticize Bush too. Today is the anniversary of the slaughter of Combat Outpost (COP) Keating. 58 Army soldiers went head to head with over 300 heavily armed Taliban that shot us up to all hell. 8 men died that day as they were overrun and ran short of ammo and air-support.

Why the hell were they deployed so far from air support with 58 guys in a sunken valley? F*#ked up!

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/05/01/battle-for-cop-keating-afghanistan.html

We're supposed to learn from mistakes, man!

Pray for the families of the fallen soldiers and their lives. They all died valiantly trying to protect their bros.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 3, 2014 - 08:09pm PT
http://sofrep.com/37222/bomb-damage-assessment-us-airstrikes-smash-isis/
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 3, 2014 - 08:29pm PT
I've said it long before General pundits have said it, where the f*#k are the AC-130 gunships?

We don't need to spend F-18 resources on targets at $1 million/tank when we can have 2-3 AC-130's rotating 24/7 through the area with intelligence from radar/sat data to find targets we can eliminate quickly/easily/cheaply from 20,000 ft.

The AC-130, look it up, is very accurate and very deadly...and very cheap. It fires Howitzer artillery rounds and explosive 30mm cannon rounds.

This sh#t is real easy, if there is a will to kill the target. And they DO need a good killing.

Keep the Apaches and A-10's on the ground, send up the AC-130's. I think we still control Baghram AF base, right? Send them up. What the f*#k are we waiting for?

Here's an AC-130 taking mercy on a mosque while killing everybody else, bad guys...

[Click to View YouTube Video]


This is just lumbering in circles over a target firing 30mm armor-piercing/explosive rounds.

Sometimes jets aren't required. Hence the utility of the Ac-130 gunship, the A-10 Warthog, and the AH-64 Apache Helo.

Please do not mess with us when we have the will....
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 3, 2014 - 08:55pm PT
My biggest fear is ISIS planting Genetically modified corn in Nebraska and condemming Americans to a painful death...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 3, 2014 - 09:02pm PT
How long before ISIS members infect themselves with Ebola and begin vomiting/shitting on the streets of NYC, LA, Seattle, Paris, London, etc ?

They hate us more than we hate them, but they're more evil, imo


This scenario is inevitable. Assuming you're a logical thinker and understand the enemy. Question is, what do we do? What would you do as leader of the country?

Wouldn't you shut down down all visa holders from that area (Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea) from entering the country regardless if they came through a Euro country or passing all "tests".

Next you might completely try to shut down the open southern border!!!

If for no other reason, people from Central America are bringing Enterovirus up to us and our kids in schools.

Of course, this makes me a xenophobe and probably a racist of some sort, but you know what? I don't really care.

People fail to think logically, but defer to political thinking. Very dangerous.
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Oct 3, 2014 - 09:20pm PT
I haven't read all of the above.... but this is a worthwhile listen IMHO.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 3, 2014 - 09:30pm PT
That's a telling video, Mike, if you haven't been paying attention. A kind of intro course as to where we're at.

The problem is that the situation is so dynamic that things change on a daily basis. It's touch and go as far as who controls what.

We are officially in a clusterf*#k.

Our leadership just fumbles around, they have no idea what to do....
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 4, 2014 - 08:20am PT
The soldiers and militia ISIS, is fighting, seems to be well supplied with booze and cigarettes.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 4, 2014 - 08:41am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
crankster

Trad climber
Oct 4, 2014 - 08:50am PT
Oohhh, so scary! ^^^^

The flames!! The explosions!!! The shiny suit!!!!
Bill Whittle. Really, martini, you're that much of an ultra conservative?
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 4, 2014 - 09:04am PT
The soldiers and militia ISIS, is fighting, seems to be well supplied with booze and cigarettes.

If I was fighting ISIS in that town, I'd want a good supply of booze and cigarettes too. Wouldn't you?

F*#k those boozeless posers.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 4, 2014 - 09:28am PT
I totally get ICY's outrage over the booze....It's almost impossible to behead a sloppy drunk Kurd...
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 4, 2014 - 09:30am PT
The IS, takes Abu Ghraib and is within Artillery range of Baghdad


Islamic State militants have taken control of key cities in Iraq’s western province of Anbar and have begun to besiege one of the country’s largest military bases in a weeklong offensive that’s brought them within artillery range of Baghdad.

The Islamic State and its tribal allies have dominated Anbar since a surprise offensive last December, but this week’s push was particularly worrisome, because for the first time this year Islamist insurgents were reported to have become a major presence in Abu Ghraib, the last Anbar town on the outskirts of the capital.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 4, 2014 - 09:48am PT
Looks like private US citizens have joined the Peshmerga (Kurds) AGAINST the bastards known as IS.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185786#.VDAjyRajLXu

WBraun

climber
Oct 5, 2014 - 09:52am PT
Wherever America shows up, mass slaughter, destruction, instability and unspeakable human misery follow.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 5, 2014 - 09:57am PT
You can't score the virgins and have clean martyrdom by barfing Ebola on the streets!!
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 5, 2014 - 05:13pm PT
Twitter, suspended about 1,000 ISIS related accounts, this w/e. Pickings, are slim.

One account, that hasn't been suspended, is Assads. He's still putting up low grade crap. An ISIS video, is slickly made. Good camera work, and well edited. Not so Assads stuffs. Looks like it was shot by a drunk with a phone.

I find the Jim Morrison background on this one, kinda strange.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 5, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
Can somebody explain how a country that has been constantly at war for about a century and has actually dropped nuclear weapons on humans is in the middle 20% on the Global Peace Index?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index#/image/File:Global_Peace_Index.svg
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Oct 9, 2014 - 12:12pm PT
Now ISIS jihadists carrying Ebola

f*#king MC C#m and Co.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786433/Could-Ebola-used-weapon-ISIS-Terror-experts-raise-prospect-jihadists-infecting-spreading-virus-Western-countries.html
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Oct 9, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
Perhaps ending Prohibition 2.0 in the US might help reduce Mexican cartel activity a bit.

Seems like that worked well in the past.

Just a thought.

sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 9, 2014 - 02:34pm PT
We must kill them..we must incinerate them...pig after pig..cow after cow..village after village..army after army..
crankster

Trad climber
Oct 9, 2014 - 02:57pm PT
Aye aye, Colonel. But remember, ISIS don't surf.
dirt claud

Social climber
san diego,ca
Oct 9, 2014 - 02:59pm PT
No we can just let them do it to us. If you want to bury your head in the sand that is your problem. Here is a list of atrocities committed in the name of Islam for ya. All in 2014 alone.



The List of Islamic Terror Attacks from 2014
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2014.10.07 Iraq Abbasiya 17 13 A Shahid suicide car bomber rams into a house and snuffs out seventeen lives.
2014.10.06 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 1 0 A 13-year-old boy is vaporized by a Religion of Peace bomb blast.
2014.10.06 Syria Hasakah 30 23 Thirty Kurds lose their lives to two Shahid suicide blasts.
2014.10.06 Nigeria Ngambi 7 0 Seven people are beheaded by Boko Haram Islamists.
2014.10.05 Chechnya Grozny 5 12 Five people are sectionalized by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.10.05 Egypt Sinai 4 0 Four gentlemen are beheaded on video by the pro-Sharia group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis.
2014.10.04 Pakistan Kohat 6 17 Religious extremists throw a bomb into a bus stop, killing six bystanders, including a child.
2014.10.04 Pakistan Quetta 5 30 Women and children are among the casualties when a suicide bomber targets a minority religious center.
2014.10.04 Iraq Baiji 12 24 A Shahid suicide bomber takes out a dozen innocents, including women and children.
2014.10.03 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A British aid worker is beheaded by the Islamic State for being non-Muslim.
2014.10.03 Iraq Kobani 1 0 Religion of Peace proponents cut off a woman's head.
2014.10.03 Iraq Beiji 2 0 Two pilots are killed when Muslim terrorists shoot down an Iraqi helicoptor.
2014.10.03 Mali Gao 9 0 Nine peacekeepers are burned to a crisp when Jihadists ambush their fuel truck - calling them the "enemies of Islam."
2014.10.03 Nigeria Michika 70 0 A 99-year-old man is among 70 residents of three villages massacred by Boko Haram Islamists.
2014.10.03 Libya Benghazi 12 45 An Ansar al-Sharia attack leaves a dozen security personnel dead.
2014.10.03 Nigeria Bachit 13 0 Thirteen villagers are massacred by Fulani terrorists.
2014.10.03 Nigeria Yola 1 0 Boko Haram beheads a captured Nigerian pilot.
2014.10.02 Libya Benghazi 29 70 Two more suicide bombings take out thirty more security personnel at an airport.
2014.10.02 Pakistan Haramosh 3 10 Sunnis bomb a bus full of Shiites, killing three.
2014.10.02 Afghanistan Kabul 3 7 A suicide attack on a bus leaves three dead.
2014.10.02 Iraq Hit 42 32 Over forty others lose their lives when a town is overrun by ISIS.
2014.10.02 Libya Banghazi 7 48 Seven security personnel are killed by a suicide bomber at an airport and a separate shooting.
2014.10.02 Pakistan Peshawar 7 6 Seven people incinerated by a Religion of Peace bomb blast in a minivan.
2014.10.01 Iraq Baghdad 15 40 Religious extremists target a pet and vegetable market with a car bomb, ending the lives of fifteen patrons.
2014.10.01 Afghanistan Kabul 8 21 Eight people are pulled into pieces by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.10.01 Iraq Jubur 7 30 Seven villagers are killed during an ISIS assault on their town.
2014.10.01 Syria Homs 45 74 Over forty children are among dozens obliterated when a suicide bomber follows a car bombing near a Shiite school and hospital.
2014.10.01 Pakistan Shabqadar 1 2 A female teacher is killed and two students injured when fundamentalists throw a grenade into the school after warnings over the girl's dress code.
2014.10.01 Syria Kobani 1 0 A civilian is captured and beheaded by caliphate terrorists.
2014.10.01 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Sunni is gunned down by sectarian rivals.
2014.10.01 Iraq Baghdad 7 24 Seven Iraqis are sent to Allah by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2014.09.30 Syria Kobane 9 0 Three women are among nine Kurds beheaded by the caliphate, which places the heads on display.
2014.09.30 Iraq Baghdad 20 35 Two Mujahideen car bombs a long a packed street leaves at least twenty dead civilians.
2014.09.30 Iraq Baghdad 5 15 Terrorists fire mortars into a neighborhood, killing five residents.
2014.09.30 Iraq Karbala 8 13 Eight people are taken apart by a Sunni car bomb in a Shiite city.
2014.09.30 Iraq Iskandariyah 5 13 A Religion of Peace bomb blast produces five dead Iraqis.
2014.09.30 Iraq Khanaqin 4 12 Four Kurds are ripped to shreds by an Islamic State bombing.
2014.09.30 Georgia Pankisi Gorge 0 1 A woman is stabbed in the breast by her fundamentalist brother for not wearing a hijab.
2014.09.29 Saudi Arabia Awamiya 1 0 Militant Shiites gun down a cop.
2014.09.29 Pakistan Charsadda 2 0 Two conservative families team up to kill a couple of young lovers.
2014.09.29 Afghanistan Paktia 8 10 Suicide bombers sent eight Afghans to Allah.
2014.09.29 Iraq Tikrit 5 0 ISIS kidnap five policemen and murder them execution-style.
2014.09.29 Nigeria Michika 40 0 At least forty people, including children and elderly, are reported dead following a 'merciless' Boko Haram attack on two small villages.
2014.09.29 Pakistan Tirah 5 3 Five people are killed when Islamists bomb the home of a rival.
2014.09.29 Iraq Riyadh 7 0 Seven Iraqis are decapitated by the Islamic State.
2014.09.29 Somalia Beledweyn 1 0 A respected cleric is assassinated by rival extremists.
2014.09.29 Sudan Khartoum 1 0 A Spanish diplomat is stabbed to death by suspected Islamists.
2014.09.29 Afghanistan Kabul 7 13 A Shahid suicide bomber takes out seven civilians.
2014.09.29 Iran Tehran 1 0 A 37-year-old man is put to death for holding 'heretical' religious beliefs.
2014.09.28 Iraq Mosul 4 0 Four young people are executed following a ruling by a Sharia court.
2014.09.28 Iraq Shirqat 6 0 Six police officers are executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.28 Algeria Telagh 2 0 Two guards at a power plant are murdered by armed fundamentalists.
2014.09.28 Yemen Marib 15 25 An al-Qaeda suicide bomber slaughters fifteen Shiites outside a hospital.
2014.09.28 Pakistan Mattani 1 1 One person loses his life to a targeted shooting by the Taliban outside a family home.
2014.09.28 Yemen al-Baida 6 0 A Shiite family of six is exterminated by Ansar al-Sharia.
2014.09.28 Pakistan Hangu 8 14 Islamic militants blow up eight innocents near a refugee camp.
2014.09.28 Pakistan Jawzjan 5 3 Five policemen are cut down by Taliban terrorists.
2014.09.28 Iraq Baiji 21 0 Twenty-one worshippers are reported dead following a bombing at a mosque.
2014.09.27 Nigeria Makurdi 12 3 Fulani terrorists attack a village, kill a dozen people and rape several women.
2014.09.27 Iraq Tuz Khormato 3 10 Three young men at a sporting event are disassembled by a Mujahid bomb blast.
2014.09.27 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 A Christian mother and her three sons are murdered in their home by suspected Islamists.
2014.09.27 Iraq Tikrit 13 4 Five women and eight children are taken apart by ISIS mortar shells.
2014.09.27 Iraq Mahmudiyah 12 24 A dozen Iraqis are incinerated in a Jihad car bomb blast.
2014.09.27 Jordan Amman 1 0 A 17-year-old girl's skull is smashed with a stone upon suspicion that she is having sex.
2014.09.26 Iraq Kobani 50 50 At least fifty people are reported dead during a massive ISIS assault on a Kurdish town.
2014.09.26 Somalia Barawe 1 0 A woman who 'married several husbands' is buried up to her neck and stoned to death.
2014.09.26 Pakistan Daweezi 3 0 Three peace committee members are taken out in a targeted blast by Tehreek-e-Taliban.
2014.09.26 Afghanistan Ghazni 100 0 Over one-hundred people are reported killed by an Islamic fundamentalist assault on their villages.
2014.09.25 Pakistan Karachi 2 7 Jundollah terrorists kill two civilians with a roadside bomb.
2014.09.25 Iraq Rutbah 2 0 A man and woman are tied up and slowly pelted with rocks for adultery by Sharia enthusiasts.
2014.09.25 USA Moore, OK 1 1 A Sharia advocate beheads a woman while shouting Islamic slogans.
2014.09.25 Pakistan Hayatabad 1 0 A Shiite bank employee is murdered outside his own house by sectarian rivals.
2014.09.25 Afghanistan Maimana 1 18 A bicycle bomb at a bazaar leaves one patron dead.
2014.09.25 Iraq Mahmoudiya 5 23 Two Mujahid car bomb blasts, one near a hospital, produce five corpses.
2014.09.25 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A female human rights attorney is tortured and publicly executed by the caliphate for 'apostasy'.
2014.09.25 Iraq Kobani 40 0 At least forty people are killed by an IS suicide bomber in a truck disguised as an aid vehicle.
2014.09.25 Iraq Yathrib 2 0 Two shepherds are executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.25 Afghanistan Ghazni 15 0 Women and children are among fifteen locals are beheaded by the Taliban.
2014.09.25 Pakistan Rawalpindi 1 1 A policeman shoots a Christian pastor to death who was in jail for a false charge of blasphemy.
2014.09.24 Syria Kobani 2 0 A mother and 8-year-old daughter are raped and murdered by caliphate members.
2014.09.24 Iraq Tikrit 12 8 A dozen Iraqis are crushed by ISIS shelling.
2014.09.24 Australia Melbourne 0 2 An ISIS fan stabs two police officers.
2014.09.24 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 47-year-old woman is shot to death by Muslim 'insurgents'.
2014.09.24 Nigeria Shaffa 20 0 A pastor is among twenty villagers massacred by Boko Haram, which also burned ten churches.
2014.09.24 Syria Kobani 1 0 An 85-year-old man is beheaded by Islamic State militants.
2014.09.24 Iraq Babilan 19 39 Nineteen people are ambushed and killed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.24 Algeria Djurdjura 1 0 Fundamentalists behead a captured French tourist.
2014.09.24 Iraq Baiji 9 0 At least nine others are killed during a suicide attack on a refinery.
2014.09.24 Mali Zouera 1 0 al-Qaeda linked militants cut off a man's head and sit it on a market stall.
2014.09.23 Afghanistan Ghazni 1 0 A 56-year-old Australian is kidnapped, tortured and killed by Sunni fundamentalists.
2014.09.23 Nigeria Nasarawa 10 0 Ten people are riddled with bullets in their own homes by Fulani terrorists.
2014.09.23 Pakistan Mirpurkhas 1 0 An Ahmadi doctor is brutally murdered in his clinic by Sunni extremists.
2014.09.23 Iraq Duluiya 3 0 Two women and a child are taken out by Mujahideen bombers.
2014.09.23 Iraq Sadr City 18 41 Sunnis slaughter eighteen Shiites with a car bomb.
2014.09.23 Pakistan Peshawar 5 29 A child is among five people disassembled by a Fedayeen suicide blast.
2014.09.23 Pakistan Peshawar 3 9 Three people are laid out when Islamists bomb a railway station.
2014.09.22 Iraq Diyala 4 0 Four Kurds are discovered and quickly executed by the caliphate.
2014.09.22 Iraq Saqlawiya 300 102 Three hundred Iraqi soldiers are reported dead following a chlorine gas attack by the Islamic State.
2014.09.22 Iraq Baghdad 12 25 A vicious bomb attack by Sunnis claims the lives of a dozen innocents.
2014.09.22 Pakistan Hangu 4 0 Islamic militants open fire from a passing car, killing four people including a child.
2014.09.21 Iraq Tigris 7 3 Seven civilians lose their lives to ISIS militants.
2014.09.21 Cameroon Tourou 19 0 Boko Haram machine-gun nineteen civilians at a market.
2014.09.21 Pakistan Punjab 2 1 The caretaker of a mosque is among two people gunned down by sectarian rivals.
2014.09.21 Egypt Cairo 3 6 Fundamentalist bombers transform three police officers into a puddle of blood.
2014.09.21 Iraq Baghdad 6 17 A 12-year-old boy is among a half-dozen victims who bleed to death following a Mujahid mortar attack.
2014.09.21 Iraq Baghdad 4 11 Jihadis set off a bomb along a commercial street, laying out four patrons.
2014.09.21 Iraq Mosul 7 0 Seven civilians are executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.21 China Xinjiang 10 54 Ten people lose their lives to a series of Muslim bombings.
2014.09.21 Iraq Tikrit 7 43 A targeted rocket attack on dozens of houses leaves at least five women and two children dead.
2014.09.21 Iraq Baghdad 3 7 Three Shiites are taken out by Sunni bombers.
2014.09.21 Libya Derna 12 4 Militant Islamists kill a dozen people.
2014.09.21 Iraq Sijir 89 43 A series of suicide bombings leave eighty local soldiers dead.
2014.09.20 Lebanon Arsal 1 0 A Lebanese hostage is executed in captivity by the Nusra Front.
2014.09.20 Libya Benghazi 8 0 Eight people are assassinated by Ansar al-Sharia in a series of attacks.
2014.09.20 Lebanon Khraybeh 3 3 A suicide bomber kills at least three people.
2014.09.20 Egypt al-Arish 1 0 A kidnap victim is beheaded by Ansar Bait al-Maqdis.
2014.09.20 Somalia Mogadishu 2 1 Two people are murdered by al-Shabaab gunmen.
2014.09.19 Afghanistan Baghlan 6 12 Six people outside a mosque are sent straight to Allah by Religion of Peace rivals.
2014.09.19 Lebanon Arsal 3 0 IS militants fire an RPG across the border and kill three Lebanese guards.
2014.09.19 Yemen Sanaa 50 0 Another fifty people are reported dead in attacks by Shiite radicals on the capital city.
2014.09.19 Pakistan Gadap 1 2 A Sunni activist is gunned down by sectarian rivals.
2014.09.19 Iraq Karradah 9 18 Sunnis set off a bomb outside a Shiite mosque, laying out nine of their sectarian rivals.
2014.09.19 Nigeria Mainok 36 16 Thirty-six bodies are counted after Islamists pour heavy weapons fire into a market.
2014.09.19 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shiite banker is shot to death in front of his children by Sunni radicals.
2014.09.19 Libya Benghazi 2 0 A blogger and his friend are shot to death by fundamentalists.
2014.09.19 Iraq Mahmoudiyah 3 10 Terrorists kill three people with a car bomb at a parking lot.
2014.09.19 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim terrorists open fire on a 58-year-old man.
2014.09.19 Cameroon Ganse 4 0 Four civilians are riddled with bullets by Boko Haram.
2014.09.19 Iraq Kirkuk 10 14 Mujahideen bombers murder ten people outside a shop.
2014.09.19 Iraq Baghdad 9 23 Sunni bombs at two Shiite markets produce nine dead Iraqis.
2014.09.19 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Two religious workers are shot to death by sectarian rivals.
2014.09.19 Iraq Tikrit 12 7 Women and children are among a dozen killed when suspected Islamic State militants mortar a residential neighborhood.
2014.09.18 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A university professor is shot to death after being charged with blasphemy for his liberal views on women.
2014.09.18 Mali Kidal 5 3 Five peacekeepers are disassembled by fundamentalist bombers.
2014.09.18 Iraq Baghdad 23 50 A suicide bombing is one of three blasts in Shiite districts that lay out two dozen innocents.
2014.09.17 Iraq Ramadi 7 5 A Shahid suicide bomber detonates on a bridge, sending seven bystanders on to Allah.
2014.09.17 Nigeria Kano 17 34 Two suicide bombers slaughter seventeen innocents at a teacher-training college.
2014.09.17 Iraq Tarmiyah 8 16 Eight Iraqis are exterminated by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.09.17 Nigeria Ungwar Ganye 2 15 A pastor and one other person are murdered by angry Muslims.
2014.09.17 Nigeria Fadan-Karshi 12 4 A dozen villagers are burned to death by Muslim terrorists, including the wife of a pastor.
2014.09.17 Libya Benghazi 9 30 Nine others are killed when Ansar al-Sharia attack an airport.
2014.09.17 Iraq Baghdad 5 20 Five civilians are taken out in a series of Jihadi bombings.
2014.09.17 Iraq Tikrit 7 0 Seven local cops are kidnapped and executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.17 Pakistan Sarki 1 0 A Shiite is shot to death by Lashker-e-Islam.
2014.09.16 Turkey Bab al-Salam 7 24 Terrorists set off a car bomb at a border crossing.
2014.09.16 Israel Petah Tikva 1 0 Arabs cut the rope holding a Jewish construction worker, sending him to his death.
2014.09.16 Nigeria Fadan Karshi Daji 33 4 Fulani terrorists massacre nearly three dozen villagers.
2014.09.16 Iraq Duluiya 7 0 Seven woman and children are exterminated by an ISIS rocket.
2014.09.16 Iraq Fallujah 7 27 Two children are among seven killed in two separate attacks by Mujahid terrorists.
2014.09.16 Afghanistan Herat 6 6 The Taliban shoot six local cops to death.
2014.09.16 Afghanistan Kabul 7 20 A suicide bomber kills seven people.
2014.09.16 Egypt Rafah 6 2 Six local cops bleed to death following a Religion of Peace bomb blast.
2014.09.15 Pakistan Pishan 1 0 One person is killed when fundamentalists open fire on an anti-polio team.
2014.09.15 Afghanistan Baghlan 1 7 A Taliban bomb planted along a city square leaves one dead.
2014.09.15 Pakistan Tal 1 2 One other person is brought down by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.09.15 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A Christian who refused to convert to Islam is beaten by the Islamic State and then executed.
2014.09.15 Pakistan Swat 3 0 Three villagers are shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
2014.09.15 Yemen Jawf 25 0 A clash between Sunni and Shia leaves over two dozen dead.
2014.09.15 Afghanistan Shahid Hasas 1 0 A cleric is beheaded by fundamentalist rivals.
2014.09.15 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three young people are executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.15 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 3 0 Two brothers and their father are murdered in their home by Sharia advocates.
2014.09.15 India Poonch 1 5 One person is killed by Muslim bombers.
2014.09.15 Iraq Baghdad 3 15 Three residents are obliterated by a Mujahid car bomb.
2014.09.14 Mali Aguelhoc 1 3 A peacekeeper is murdered by Jihadists.
2014.09.14 Nigeria Bokkos 5 0 Two children and two women are among five Christians shot to death by Fulani shouting praises to Allah.
2014.09.14 Iraq al-Jumasah 8 0 Eight Iraqis are rounded-up and executed by the Islamic State for 'plotting against Allah'.
2014.09.14 Pakistan Spinwam 3 0 Three border guards at a remote post are pasted by a Religion of Peace RPG attack.
2014.09.14 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Sunni leader is shot to death by Shiite radicals while sitting outside his store.
2014.09.14 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim 'separatists' kill a 50-year-old man and injure his wife on their way back from market.
2014.09.14 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shiite cleric is shot to death by Sunni radicals while watering his lawn.
2014.09.14 Pakistan Bara 2 0 A married couple are killed just outside their home by Taliban fundamentalists.
2014.09.14 Nigeria Tunari 20 40 Fulani mercenaries attack a Christian village en masse and slaughter over twenty residents, mostly women and children.
2014.09.14 Iraq Zab 1 0 An engineer is publicly executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.14 Pakistan Nasir Bagh 1 0 A prayer leader is shot to death for leading police in worship.
2014.09.14 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Rivals storm the home of a religious figure and murder five members of his family.
2014.09.13 Iraq Ghadeer 3 1 Three members of a Christian family are taken out by Sunni bombers.
2014.09.13 Syria Aleppo 1 0 A British aid worker is beheaded by the Islamic State after being forced to read a statement blaming his own country.
2014.09.13 Nigeria Ngom 25 16 Twenty-five people are machine-gunned at a market by Boko Haram.
2014.09.12 Afghanistan Badakhshan 6 3 A half dozen Afghan soldiers are disintegrated by a Taliban bomb blast.
2014.09.12 Libya Benghazi 1 0 A mosque preacher is gunned down by suspected rivals.
2014.09.12 Iraq Rashid 4 0 Four brothers are beheaded by the Islamic State for crimes against religion.
2014.09.11 Iraq Baghdad 13 41 Two vicious bomb attacks leave thirteen dead.
2014.09.11 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Militant Muslims beat a truck driver to death.
2014.09.11 Pakistan Tank 1 0 Religious extremists murder a peace committee member outside his home.
2014.09.11 Iraq Najaf 5 12 Jihadi bombers strike a restaurant, taking out five patrons in mid-bite.
2014.09.11 Iraq Karbalah 3 12 Sunnis blow up a bus stop in a Shia area, killing three commuters.
2014.09.11 Iraq Diwaniyah 6 16 A half-dozen people in a commercial district are laid out by a Mujahideen car bomb.
2014.09.11 Pakistan Orangi 2 0 Two Shiites are brought down by Sunni gunmen. One was a doctor in his clinic.
2014.09.11 Thailand Pattani 4 5 Muslim terrorists spray a government building with gunfire, then throw a bomb inside.
2014.09.11 Philippines North Cotabato 2 0 At least two people are riddled with bullets by Bangsamoro Islamic gunmen.
2014.09.11 Iraq Mosul 7 0 Seven men are beheaded for speaking out against the Islamic State.
2014.09.10 Iraq Baghdad 5 9 A Shahid suicide bomber takes out five Iraqis.
2014.09.10 Iraq Baghdad 14 35 Mujahid bomber blow up a pet market, killing over a dozen people and several animals.
2014.09.10 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Six people are obliterated by a Fedayeen suicide blast.
2014.09.10 Pakistan Damadola 1 0 A guard for a polio team is murdered by fundamentalists.
2014.09.10 Iraq Mosul 31 0 Thirty-one police officers are executed for refusing to cooperate with the Islamic State.
2014.09.10 Egypt Ansar beit al Maqdis 1 0 A person is kidnapped and beheaded by Ansar beit al Maqdis.
2014.09.10 Pakistan Karachi 1 1 A prominent Sunni scholar is shot to death by Religion of Peace rivals.
2014.09.10 Iraq Zumar 35 0 Yazidi women and children are comprise most of the thirty-five ISIS victims found in a mass grave.
2014.09.10 Iraq Barzak 14 0 Fourteen dead Yazidis are found executed by caliphate terrorists. The victims include children.
2014.09.10 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shiite activist is gunned down by Sunni radicals.
2014.09.10 Pakistan Sharifabad 1 0 A Shiite businessman is shot to death at his shop by sectarian Jihadis.
2014.09.09 Nigeria Baza 24 14 Two dozen Nigerians die during an attack by Boko Haram.
2014.09.09 Syria Damascus 5 22 Sunni militants send mortars into a Shia suburb, killing five people.
2014.09.09 Iraq Amerli 6 0 Several Sunnis are beheaded by Shia militia.
2014.09.09 Yemen Qattan 4 6 Four people are laid out by a Religion of Peace suicide bomber.
2014.09.09 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A Sunni imam is executed for refusing allegiance to the caliphate.
2014.09.09 CAR Ngakobo 13 0 A priest and three members of his congregation are among thirteen massacred by Muslim 'rebels'.
2014.09.09 Syria Ram Hamdan 45 5 Islamic State suicide bombers blow up a house hosting a meeting of rivals, killing up to forty-five participants.
2014.09.09 Libya Benghazi 5 7 Five local soldiers are murdered by Majlis al-Shoura.
2014.09.09 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Sectarian Jihadis shoot a blind man and his nephew to death.
2014.09.09 Iraq Mosul 5 0 Five women are kidnapped and beheaded by the caliphate for 'acting against the religion of Islam' by telling fortunes.
2014.09.09 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two women are shot in the back of the head for crimes against Islam.
2014.09.08 Somalia Mogadishu 12 27 A dozen people are blown to bits by a Shahid car bomber.
2014.09.08 Afghanistan Kandahar 3 6 Three people are pulled into pieces by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.09.08 Iraq Dhuluieh 17 71 Islamic State members pump machine-gun fire and a bomb into a market, killing at least seventeen.
2014.09.07 Nigeria Mbar 4 0 Four members of a church are murdered in two attacks by Muslim extremists.
2014.09.07 Pakistan Sargodha 3 7 Three people lose their lives when Religion of Peace rivals fire into a Sufi shrine.
2014.09.07 Syria Aleppo 5 30 Five civilians are killed when Islamic State rebels send mortar shells into their neighborhood.
2014.09.07 Syria Aleppo 3 9 ISIS gunmen fire point-blank into a bus, killing three passengers.
2014.09.07 Yemen al-Baida 2 0 Two traffic cops are sprayed with bullets by al-Qaeda.
2014.09.07 Nigeria Michika 60 0 'Scores' of young people are rounded up and then forced on to the ground to have their throats slit by Islamists. Elderly people are also shot at close range.
2014.09.07 Iraq Miqdadiya 2 2 Two children are exterminated by a Mujahideen mortar round.
2014.09.07 Iraq Mosul 40 0 Children and a female politician are among forty people reportedly executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.06 Pakistan Peshawar 1 0 A Sikh is shot to death is shot to death outside his grocery store.
2014.09.06 Nigeria Gulak 100 0 More than a hundred innocents are thought to have been slaughtered during a two day binge by Boko Haram near a Bible college.
2014.09.06 Pakistan Karachi 1 7 The Taliban attack a naval dockyard, killing a sailor.
2014.09.06 Yemen Jawf 20 22 Twenty others are reported killed during a sustained assault by Shiite militia.
2014.09.06 Pakistan Azizabad 2 0 A prominent Shia and his bodyguard are murdered by Sunni extremists.
2014.09.06 Lebanon Arsal 1 0 Another captive is beheaded by caliphate terrorists.
2014.09.06 Libya Warshefana 12 10 A dozen people are killed when an Islamist alliance sends shells into a residential neighborhood.
2014.09.05 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Three women are among six executed by the Islamic State, which include several doctors.
2014.09.05 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Two members of the Shia community are gunned down by sectarian Jihadis in separate attacks.
2014.09.05 Syria Ashara 1 0 A youth is executed and crucified to punish other residents calling for an end to the caliphate.
2014.09.05 Pakistan Rawalpindi 1 0 A female polio worker is shot to death in her home.
2014.09.05 Nigeria Borno 2 0 Two family members are murdered when they refuse to turn their 13-year-old over to Boko Haram.
2014.09.05 Iraq Ameriya 3 9 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out three people.
2014.09.04 Iraq Mosul 14 0 Fourteen young people are abducted and executed by the Islamic State.
2014.09.04 Iraq Tikrit 7 17 A suicide car bomber lays out seven Iraqis.
2014.09.04 Afghanistan Ghazni 18 154 Fundamentalists set off a massive truck bomb outside a government office, killing eighteen.
2014.09.04 Iraq Baghdad 11 32 Sunnis detonate a car bomb amidst a row of shops and restaurants in a Shiite district, killing eleven.
2014.09.04 Iraq Karrada 6 17 A half-dozen innocents are slain when fundamentalists set off a bomb near alcohol shops.
2014.09.04 Iraq Sulaiman Bek 35 0 The bodies of thirty-five truck drivers, kidnapped months earlier by Sunni militants are discovered in a mass grave.
2014.09.04 Nigeria Kawuri 30 0 Pro-Sharia extremists massacre over thirty villagers.
2014.09.03 Iraq Fallujah 5 13 Mujahideen kill five civilians with a rocket barrage.
2014.09.03 Iraq Ramadi 16 0 Sixteen people near a university are kidnapped by the Islamic State and executed.
2014.09.03 Pakistan Mardan 1 0 A Sikh is stabbed to death in a suspected sectarian attack.
2014.09.03 Egypt al-Arish 1 0 A 32-year-old policeman is brutally shot to death by Islamic fundamentalists.
2014.09.03 Afghanistan Kunar 7 0 Seven local soldiers are ambushed and killed by religious radicals.
2014.09.02 Nigeria Eggon 55 100 Muslim 'mercenaries' attack three villages and murder over fifty residents as they also torch a brewery.
2014.09.02 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A 40-year-old Shiite is assassinated in his store by Sunni gunmen.
2014.09.02 Egypt al-Wefaq 11 2 Eleven police officers are blown to bits by a fundamentalist bomb blast.
2014.09.02 Syria Taftanaz 1 0 A second American journalist is beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.09.02 Libya Banghazi 20 36 At least twenty others are killed by Ansar al-Sharia.
2014.09.02 Dagestan Makhachkala 5 0 Muslim militants shoot five people to death and stuff them in a car.
2014.09.02 Iraq Fallujah 3 17 The caliphate sends artillery shells into a neighborhood, killing three residents.
2014.09.02 Nigeria Bama 120 35 Over one-hundred more victims are reported killed during a second Boko Haram attempt to overrun a town.
2014.09.02 CAR Nana Bakassa 5 5 Muslim rebels shoot five villagers to death.
2014.09.02 Nigeria Bama 2 0 A targeted Islamist attack on a family home leaves two members dead.
2014.09.02 Pakistan Waziristan 1 0 An off-duty soldier is murdered by al-Qaeda.
2014.09.01 Yemen Shibam 3 0 Three men are tortured and killed by al-Qaeda.
2014.09.01 Iraq Bartala 1 0 A Christian is tortured and killed by the Islamic State after refusing to convert to Islam.
2014.09.01 Egypt Sinai 4 0 Ansar beit al Maqdis behead four more captives.
2014.09.01 Iraq Hawija 6 0 Six Iraqi policemen are executed in cold blood by caliphate terrorists.
2014.09.01 Syria Aleppo 31 0 A university professor is among thirty-one people executed over a 10-day stretch by IS Jihadists.
2014.09.01 Iraq Bayaa 13 45 A pair of Jihad car bombs produce thirteen dead Iraqis.
2014.09.01 Sudan Kalma 2 4 Two women are killed and four children injured during an armed attack on a refugee camp by the Islamic Republic.
2014.09.01 Nigeria Bama 59 0 Nearly sixty are reported dead following a Boko Haram attack on a large town.
2014.09.01 Nigeria Madagali 350 0 Over three hundred Christians are reported killed when Boko Haram invade a series of villages.
2014.08.31 Iraq Fallujah 3 13 Three civilians are laid out by Islamic State mortars.
2014.08.31 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Militant Muslims shoot a man twice in the head.
2014.08.31 Iraq Ramadi 37 38 Thirty-seven Iraqis are reduced to pulp by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2014.08.31 Pakistan Sialkot 3 0 A man 'honor kills' his wife and two daughters after consulting with other family members.
2014.08.31 Syria Aleppo 1 0 A Dutch national is beheaded by ISIS.
2014.08.31 Yemen Shabwa 6 2 Two Shahid suicide bombers take out a half-dozen human beings.
2014.08.31 Libya Benghazi 10 25 Ten people are killed when an Islamist militia showers a civilian airport with rockets.
2014.08.31 Iraq Jalula 4 24 Four Kurds are left dead following a suicide bombing.
2014.08.31 Iraq Saadiya 19 0 Nineteen Sunnis are executed for refusing to join the Jihad.
2014.08.31 Somalia Mogadishu 5 12 Five others are killed during a sustained al-Shabaab attack on a prison.
2014.08.30 Iraq Yousifiya 11 24 Eleven Iraqis at a checkpoint are exterminated by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.08.30 Afghanistan Jalalabad 6 33 A Shahid suicide bomber disassembles six other people.
2014.08.30 Nigeria Gamboru Ngala 40 0 At least forty more Christians are found hacked to death 'like chickens' by Boko Haram.
2014.08.30 Afghanistan Robaat 12 5 The Taliban stop a bus carrying workers, force them out into a line and machine-gun them in cold blood.
2014.08.30 Nigeria Borno 14 215 Boko Haram militants spray machine-gun fire into villages while yelling praises to Allah. At least fourteen are killed.
2014.08.30 Lebanon Arsal 1 0 Another captured Lebanese soldier is beheaded on video.
2014.08.29 Iraq Mosul 2 0 A Shiite and a Kurd are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.08.29 Yemen Lahj 2 0 al-Qaeda gunmen murder two local officials.
2014.08.29 Iraq Tuz Khurmatu 8 30 A brutal terror attack by the Islamic State leaves eight dead.
2014.08.29 Iraq Wahda 6 0 Six headless victims are found following the liberation of a town from Islamic State.
2014.08.28 Pakistan Awaran 6 7 Six members of a minority religious community are shot to death in their place of worship by suspected Sunni fundamentalists.
2014.08.28 Iraq Hillah 4 0 Four guards at a hospital are shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
2014.08.28 Syria Raqqa 7 0 Video emerges of caliphate militants shooting seven kneeling hostages.
2014.08.28 Iraq Mosul 7 0 Seven people are executed on orders of a Sharia court.
2014.08.28 Nigeria Bauchi 2 1 A suspected Boko Haram attack leaves two dead.
2014.08.28 Thailand Pattani 1 2 Muslim terrorists murder a teacher with a bomb.
2014.08.28 Syria Raqqa 250 0 Video emerges of two-hundred and fifty captives marched into the desert and machine-gunned by the Islamic State.
2014.08.28 Lebanon Arsal 1 0 A captured Lebanese soldier is beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.08.27 Afghanistan Aqcha 1 4 Young children are among the casualties of a Taliban bomb attack.
2014.08.27 Iraq Ramadi 6 0 Six family members are killed when religious radicals blow up their house.
2014.08.27 Iraq Habbaniyah 7 2 Islamic State militants kill seven Iraqis with a mortar round.
2014.08.27 Pakistan Korangi 2 0 A doctor is among two Shiites shot to death by sectarian Jihadis.
2014.08.27 Bangladesh Dhaka 1 0 A TV personality is assassinated by suspected Jamaat-e-Islami .
2014.08.26 Iraq Mosul 5 0 Five men are executed with shots to the head after being convicted by a caliphate court.
2014.08.26 Afghanistan Farah 1 0 A mosque imam is beheaded by the Taliban.
2014.08.26 Iraq Abbasi 12 0 A dozen Iraqis are laid out in a row and machine-gunned by the Islamic State.
2014.08.26 Iraq Baghdad 15 37 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out fifteen innocents in a Shiite district.
2014.08.25 Nigeria Ashigashya 3 0 Religion of Peace proponents butcher three people in front of a church.
2014.08.25 Pakistan Jamrud 2 1 Taliban snipers pick off a truck driver and his assistant.
2014.08.25 Nigeria Gambouru 15 3 Women and children are among fifteen civilians pulled out of their cars and shot to death by Boko Haram.
2014.08.25 Iraq Baghdad 15 32 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out fifteen worshippers at a rival mosque.
2014.08.25 Iraq Hillah 11 26 Two Mujahid car bombs claim the lives of eleven innocents.
2014.08.25 Iraq Shaab 2 10 Two patrons at a market are taken out by Jihadi bombers.
2014.08.25 Iraq Baghdad 15 21 Fifteen patrons at a crowded restaurant are exterminated in mid-bite by two Holy Warrior car bombs.
2014.08.25 Iraq Karbala 12 31 Sunni bombers massacre a dozen Shiites.
2014.08.25 Iraq Qayara 3 0 Three Iraqis are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.08.25 Nigeria Kafin Hausa 6 0 Six people are reported dead after Boko Haram attack two towns and burn a church.
2014.08.25 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three women suspected of prostitution are tortured and shot.
2014.08.25 Kenya Garissa 1 1 A school teacher is murdered by al-Shabaab gunmen.
2014.08.24 Nigeria Taraba 20 85 Muslim gunmen kill twenty villagers and burn two churches in a suspected sectarian attack.
2014.08.24 Iraq Haditha 4 3 A Shahid suicide bomber sends four young people to Allah.
2014.08.24 Iraq Baghdad 7 11 Jihadi car bombers take out seven Shiites.
2014.08.24 Syria Raqqa 150 0 One-hundred and fifty Syrian soldiers are captured and beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.08.24 Nigeria Gwoza 35 0 Boko Haram releases a video of civilians being executed as the narrator explains that 'Allah commands us to kill without pity'.
2014.08.24 Iraq Baqubah 2 0 ISIS blow up a Shia mosque and kill two people.
2014.08.23 Yemen Shibam 3 6 An al-Qaeda ambush kills three local soldiers.
2014.08.23 Iraq Kirkuk 31 123 Three suicide bombers take out thirty-one patrons in a crowded commercial district.
2014.08.23 Pakistan Sadat Colony 2 0 Two Sunnis are murdered in their shop by Shia gunmen.
2014.08.23 Pakistan Zaman 3 3 Three devotees lose their lives when Religion of Peace rivals fire into their shrine.
2014.08.23 Afghanistan Kabul 0 10 A suicide bomber detonates along a city street.
2014.08.23 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 Sipah-e-Sahaba gunmen take down a Shiite.
2014.08.23 Iraq Baghdad 11 24 Eleven Iraqis are pulled into pieces by a Fedayeen suicide car bomber.
2014.08.22 Israel Sha'ar Hanegev 1 3 A 4-year-old boy is taken out by a Hamas rocket.
2014.08.22 Iraq Baghdad 73 20 Shia militia turn a Sunni mosque into a bloodbath, machine-gunning seventy-three worshippers.
2014.08.22 Iraq Baghdad 8 0 Eight Iraqis are reduced to pulp by a suicide bomber.
2014.08.22 Iraq Tikrit 9 0 A Sunni suicide bomber takes out nine Shiites.
2014.08.22 Iraq Shirqat 12 0 A dozen Iraqis are kidnapped and executed by ISIS.
2014.08.22 Iraq Himreen 5 12 A targeted triple-bombing produced five dead Shiites.
2014.08.22 Israel Ashdod 1 0 An Israeli is killed by an Hamas rocket.
2014.08.21 Pakistan Chadrar 1 4 One person is killed when Muslim militants throw a grenade into a family home.
2014.08.21 Pal. Auth. Gaza 18 0 Eighteen Palestinians are publicly executed and dragged through the streets by Hamas.
2014.08.21 Pakistan Peshawar 2 0 Two truck drivers are murdered by the Taliban.
2014.08.20 Syria Aleppo 3 0 Three civilians are pulled in front of a crowd and shot in the head by ISIS.
2014.08.20 Nigeria Buni Yadi 2 0 Armed fundamentalists invade a small town and execute two people for smoking.
2014.08.20 Iraq Kirkuk 2 9 Two people lose their lives to a Mujahideen bomb blast.
2014.08.20 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 A 'foreigner' is brutally stabbed to death.
2014.08.20 Afghanistan Uruzgan 3 2 A 'gruesome' Taliban bomb attack produces three dead civilians.
2014.08.20 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 4 0 Ansar Beit al-Maqdis members behead four male captives.
2014.08.20 Kenya Lamu 1 0 Religion of Peace activists kidnap and behead a Christian.
2014.08.19 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Quran teacher is picked off by Religion of Peace rivals.
2014.08.19 Pakistan Tangi 6 1 Three female teachers and two children are incinerated by a remote-controlled blast.
2014.08.19 Syria Taftanaz 1 0 An American journalists is beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.08.19 Iraq Hardan 19 2 Reports emerge of Islamic State slaughtering nineteen boys and kidnapping two girls from an extended family.
2014.08.19 Libya Tripoli 3 8 Three people are killed when Islamist militia fire rockets into a residential area.
2014.08.19 Sudan Port Sudan 1 0 A man dies from trauma after a Sharia court flogs him for drinking.
2014.08.19 Pakistan Karachi 3 0 Three policemen are shot to death by fundamentalists.
2014.08.19 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A female doctor is murdered after organizing a protest against having to wear the scarf when treating patients.
2014.08.19 Iraq Baghdad 2 10 Two residents are killed when Jihadis send a rocket into their neighborhood.
2014.08.18 Thailand Yala 2 2 Terrorists target a group of teachers, killing two of their guards.
2014.08.18 Egypt Gharbiya 1 1 Radicals assassinate a police officer.
2014.08.18 Nigeria Durwa 6 0 Six refugees from an earlier attack are hunted down and killed by Boko Haram.
2014.08.18 Nigeria Maforo 4 0 Four people are butchered by Sharia advocates.
2014.08.18 Iraq Albu Jwari 1 0 ISIS members cut the throat of an Iraqi.
2014.08.18 Iraq Tikrit 4 0 Four local soldiers are ambushed and killed by Mujahideen.
2014.08.18 Pakistan Karachi 4 0 A salesman and an accountant are among four people gunned down for belonging to the wrong branch of Islam.
2014.08.18 Cameroon Greya 3 15 Three civilians are murdered by Boko Haram.
2014.08.18 Pakistan Jamrud 2 0 Taliban hardliners kill a truck driver and a cleaner.
2014.08.17 Iraq Kucho 20 0 Another twenty bodies are discovered, victims of the Islamic State purge of Yazidis who would not convert.
2014.08.17 Iraq Jalawla 1 0 A captive is executed by the caliphate.
2014.08.16 Iraq Jalawla 13 7 ISIS members send mortars into a Kurdish neighborhood, killing thirteen.
2014.08.16 Mali Ber 2 9 Two peacekeepers are killed by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2014.08.16 Indonesia West Nusa Tenggara 1 0 A police officer is shot to death by terrorists.
2014.08.16 India Awantipora 2 4 Muslim 'separatists' gun down two guards at an airport.
2014.08.16 Somalia Beledweyne 2 0 A woman is among two people shot dead by al-Shabaab fundamentalists.
2014.08.16 Russia Vladikavkaz 1 0 A moderate imam is shot seven times by suspected Islamic radicals.
2014.08.16 Iraq Kucho 312 0 Another three-hundred religious minorities are slaughtered in cold blood by the Islamic State after refusing to convert.
2014.08.16 Iraq Samarrah 3 11 Religion of Peace bombers target an engineering team trying to repair a bridge, killing three.
2014.08.16 Syria Dama 15 20 Islamist-backed groups attack a Druze village, killing fifteen residents.
2014.08.15 Iraq Sayed Ahmad 6 0 Six Iraqis are executed in cold blood by Islamic State.
2014.08.15 Iraq Said Ahmad 5 0 Five members of one family are murdered in their home by members of the Islamic State.
2014.08.15 CAR Mbres 34 0 Thirty-four people are reported killed by Muslim 'rebels'.
2014.08.15 Syria Akhtarin 9 0 Caliphate members slit the throats of nine captives.
2014.08.15 Iraq Jalawla 1 0 A Shiite imam is executed in front of his mosque by dedicated Sunnis, who then blow up the mosque.
2014.08.15 Iraq Kucho 80 0 Eighty men are slaughtered and their women and children enslaved after refusing to convert to Islam.
2014.08.15 Syria Deir al-Zor 700 0 Seven-hundred tribesman are executed by the caliphate over the course of a week, mostly by beheading.
2014.08.15 Syria Deraa 14 12 Women and children are among those killed when Islamists bomb a rival mosque.
2014.08.15 Pakistan Quetta 0 11 A sustained Fedayeen suicide assault on an airbase leaves eleven other injured.
2014.08.15 Kenya Nairobi 0 1 A convert to Christianity is left in a coma after being thrown from a balcony by devout Muslims.
2014.08.15 Iraq Hit 9 13 Nine civilians are turned to paste by an ISIS rocket.
2014.08.14 Yemen Mukallah 3 3 Three security personnel are killed while foiling an Ansar al-Sharia car bombing.
2014.08.14 Kenya Garissa 2 2 Pro-Sharia extremists open fire on a crowd of civilians, killing two.
2014.08.14 Kenya Mandera 1 0 al-Shabaab terrorists murder a road construction worker.
2014.08.14 Iraq Fallujah 5 0 Four children and a woman are killed during an attack by Sunni radicals.
2014.08.13 Iraq Baghdad 6 9 Mujahid bombers murder six people outside of an educational directorate.
2014.08.13 India Galander 3 0 Three people are machine-gunned point-blank by militant Muslims.
2014.08.13 Iraq Baghdad 10 21 Ten Iraqis are obliterated by a car bomb in a Sunni district.
2014.08.13 Egypt el-Mattallah 1 2 A 13-year-old child bleeds out from a Hamas rocket fired from Gaza.
2014.08.13 Yemen Lahj 14 16 A bomb planted by al-Qaeda takes out fourteen innocents on a main street.
2014.08.12 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 A Shia doctor is among two people killed in separate sectarian shooting attacks.
2014.08.12 Yemen al-Jouf 15 0 At least fifteen are killed when radical Shiites clash with radical Sunnis.
2014.08.12 Iraq Diyala 6 0 A religious radical shoots six members of his own family to death for trying to prevent him from joining ISIL.
2014.08.12 Iraq Baghdad 13 27 Thirteen people lose their lives to a Mujahideen bombing outside a family home.
2014.08.12 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Jihadi car bombers take out two Iraqis.
2014.08.12 Thailand Yala 2 1 Militant Muslims kill two police officers with a roadside bomb.
2014.08.12 Libya Tripoli 1 0 A police chief is shot to death by suspected Islamists.
2014.08.12 Afghanistan Bahrami Shahid 3 0 Three policemen are murdered by Taliban bombers.
2014.08.12 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 4 2 Three brothers are among four people gunned down by Taliban militants.
2014.08.11 Nigeria Yelwa 14 0 Fourteen Christians are 'killed for their faith' by heavily-armed Muslims.
2014.08.11 Iraq Bieji 2 0 Two Iraqis are kidnapped and shot in the head by al-Qaeda.
2014.08.11 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Islamists identify a Christian cab driver by his rosary and quickly butcher him.
2014.08.11 Syria Mayadin 4 0 Four men are crucified by the Islamic State - two for blasphemy and two for 'dealing with apostates'.
2014.08.11 Syria Deir Ezzor 5 0 Five people are beheaded by ISIL.
2014.08.11 Nigeria Zarazong 2 0 Militant Muslims burn homes and kill two residents of a Christian village.
2014.08.10 Syria al-Shaafa 2 0 Two tribesmen are beheaded by the caliphate.
2014.08.10 Pakistan Surjani 2 2 A Shiite man and his daughter are exterminated by committed Sunnis.
2014.08.10 Nigeria Kaduna 1 0 One person is killed when militant Muslims fire into a Catholic church during worship.
2014.08.10 Iraq Jalawla 10 80 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills ten Iraqis.
2014.08.10 Nigeria Doron Baga 31 122 Pro-Sharia gunmen fire into a village, killing over thirty residents while shouting 'Allah Akbar'.
2014.08.10 DRC Kivu 3 0 Three priests kidnapped in 2012 are reported executed after refusing to convert to Islam
2014.08.10 Afghanistan Kabul 4 7 A woman and two children are sectionalized by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2014.08.10 Iraq Nineveh 17 0 Seventeen members of the Shabak religious minority are executed in cold blood by the Islamic State.
2014.08.09 Iraq Makhmour 1 0 A journalist is killed by an ISIL shell.
2014.08.09 Syria Alippo 3 12 Three children are 'torn apart' by an Islamic State rocket.
2014.08.09 Syria al-Bulel 2 0 ISIL beheads two captives.
2014.08.09 Somalia Buloburde 13 3 Thirteen security personnel are reportedly killed in an attack by al-Shabaab.
2014.08.08 Yemen Huta 14 0 Religion of Peace proponents capture and behead fourteen soldiers.
2014.08.08 Syria Damascus 15 0 Fifteen more people are reported killed by Ajnad al-Sham Islamist militia.
2014.08.08 Afghanistan Sangin 4 0 Religious extremists storm a checkpoint and kill four policemen.
2014.08.08 Afghanistan Tenai Dara 4 2 Religious radicals storm a house in the middle of the night and slaughter four family members.
2014.08.08 Iraq Iraq 15 0 Fifteen male members of a Yazidi family are beheaded by Islamic State. The women are taken away for 'marriage'.
2014.08.07 Syria Raqqa 36 0 Forty people are reported dead in three suicide blasts and subsequent beheadings by the Caliphate.
2014.08.07 Iraq Kirkuk 11 50 Eleven people outside a Shiite are reduced to pulp by co-religionists.
2014.08.07 Syria Deir Ezzor 19 0 Nineteen oil workers are lined up and executed by militants who quote verse 5:32 of the Quran.
2014.08.07 Libya Zawiya 4 9 Four people are killed during an attack by Islamist militia.
2014.08.07 Iraq Sinjar 397 500 The death toll from the slaughter of Yazidi religious minorities by Caliphate militants rises.
2014.08.07 Yemen Seyoun 50 0 At least fifty soldiers are reported killed during an al-Qaeda suicide attack.
2014.08.06 Cameroon Zigague 10 0 Ten bus passengers are machine-gunned point blank by Boko Haram Islamists.
2014.08.06 Iraq Baghdad 17 25 Seventeen Iraqis are disassembled by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2014.08.06 Iraq Baghdad 11 4 A Mujahid bombing claims the lives of eleven Iraqis.
2014.08.06 Pakistan Peshawar 1 2 Sunnis open fire on a group of Sikhs, killing a teenager.
2014.08.06 Iraq Sinjar 60 0 Another thirty children and thirty elderly are reported dead following displacement by the Islamic State.
2014.08.06 Iraq Aliya Rash 1 14 One other person is killed by a suicide truck bomber.
2014.08.06 Iraq Sadr City 31 84 Thirty-one people at a Shiite shopping center are reduced to pulp by Sunni bombers.
2014.08.06 Yemen Habban 5 1 Five security personnel are machine-gunned in their car by al-Qaeda.
2014.08.06 Lebanon Tripoli 1 7 A civilian is killed when Sunni radicals toss a bomb under a bridge.
2014.08.06 India Kupwara 1 0 Terrorists fire on a security patrol, killing a member.
2014.08.06 Nigeria Gwoza 997 40 One-thousand people are reported dead after Boko Haram fire indiscriminately at residents of a Christian village while praising Allah.
2014.08.06 Iraq Qara Qosh 2 3 A Christian woman and her baby are killed by ISIS shelling.
2014.08.06 Libya Tripoli 18 0 Eighteen Sudanese nationals are killed by a rocket strike during an assault by Islamic militia.
2014.08.05 Syria Maaloula 1 0 Video surfaces of a Christian man beheaded to shouts of 'Allah akbar'.
2014.08.05 Iraq Sinjar 40 0 Forty Yazidi children are reported dead as a direct consequence of an Islamic State assault on their town.
2014.08.05 Pal. Auth. Shejaiya 10 0 Ten more Palestinians are reported dead following an Hamas crackdown.
2014.08.05 Syria Jerthe 3 0 Islamic State militants behead three men and then post the heads for display.
2014.08.05 Pakistan Liaquatabad 2 0 Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat gunmen open fire on a Shiite-owned salon, killing an uncle and his nephew.
2014.08.05 Afghanistan Uruzgan 7 0 A Taliban in police uniform drugs and murders seven Afghan cops.
2014.08.05 Iraq Abu Ghraib 2 0 Mujahideen fire on a car, killing two people.
2014.08.05 Syria Damascus 16 79 Two children are among sixteen civilians killed when an Islamist brigade sends shells into their neighborhood.
2014.08.05 Egypt Matrouh 5 0 Muslim radicals shoot five policemen sitting in a car, then set fire to it.
2014.08.05 Dagestan Shamil 1 0 Islamic extremists are suspected of shooting a police officer to death.
2014.08.05 Sudan Port Sudan 2 0 Two men are flogged to death by a Sharia court for consuming alcohol.
2014.08.04 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 3 2 Three Sufis are killed in a targeted bombing.
2014.08.04 Iraq Telkef 1 6 A Christian is killed by an Islamic State firing.
2014.08.04 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 The 65-year-old principal of a Christian school is gunned down in a targeted attack.
2014.08.04 Iraq Jalawla 3 6 A suicide bomber detonates inside a coffee shop, liquidating three patrons.
2014.08.04 Yemen Hadramout 6 0 A half-dozen local soldiers are murdered by al-Qaeda.
2014.08.04 Syria Mzeiraa 7 4 Two children are among a family of seven religious minorities butchered in their home by Islamic State members.
2014.08.04 Somalia Bosaso 5 0 An al-Shabaab suicide bomber takes out four Somalis.
2014.08.04 Iraq Deir al-Zor 15 120 The Islamic State sends rockets into three non-compliant villages, killing fifteen civilians.
2014.08.04 Lebanon Arsal 2 3 Islamists fire on a peace delegation, killing two guards.
2014.08.04 Thailand Yala 2 0 Muslim bombers kill two off-duty cops.
2014.08.04 Chad Dubuwa 6 0 Boko Haram chasing fleeing villagers into Chad, where they cut down six.
2014.08.04 Israel Jerusalem 1 6 An Arab rams a bus and mows over a rabbi with a tractor.
2014.08.04 Pakistan Quetta 2 0 Two young people are shot to death for having unmarried sex.
2014.08.03 Somalia Mogadishu 3 7 Three elderly female street cleaners are disassembled by an Islamist bomb.
2014.08.03 Iraq Sinjar 88 0 Eighty-eight members of the Yazidi religious minority are rounded up and 'cleansed' by Islamic State members.
2014.08.03 Iraq Diyala 1 1 Islamic State militants kill a man and abduct his 11-year-old daughter.
2014.08.03 Lebanon Arsal 3 0 At least three civilians are killed during an attack by al-Nusra.
2014.08.03 Tunisia Sbitla 1 1 Fundamentalists try to storm a military base, killing a defender.
2014.08.03 Iraq Tal Azir 7 0 Seven Yazidi minorities are executed in cold blood by the Islamic State.
2014.08.03 Syria Damascus 12 23 A young girl is among a dozen killed when Islamic Union members send mortars into a residential neighborhood.
2014.08.03 Pakistan Karachi 1 1 Sunni Tehreek members shoot a rival to death.
2014.08.03 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 1 4 A 6-year-old boy bleeds to death after being hit with a rocket fired by religious hardliners.
2014.08.03 Nigeria Kaduna 1 17 Muslims fire into a Catholic church, killing a guard and injuring several worshippers.
2014.08.02 Pakistan Hangu 1 1 One rider is killed when suspected Taliban open fire on a bus.
2014.08.02 Bangladesh Rangpur 1 0 A religious minority is beaten to death by a Muslim gang.
2014.08.02 Iraq Jurf al-Sakhr 23 0 Twenty-three people are reported dead following shelling by Islamic State militants.
2014.08.02 Iraq Balad 5 16 A Sunni suicide bomber reduces five Shiites to pulp.
2014.08.02 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 Activists behead a citizen who refuses to swear allegiance to the Islamic State.
2014.08.02 Libya Tripoli 22 72 Another twenty-two people are killed when Islamist militias lay siege to an airport.
2014.08.02 Yemen Shabwa 4 2 al-Qaeda gunmen open fire point-blank on a group of policemen, killing four.
2014.08.02 Pakistan Ashraf 2 0 A young couple is murdered by her conservative family for marrying without permission.
2014.08.02 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A man is beheaded for refusing to swear allegiance to the caliphate.
2014.08.01 Iraq Jurf al-Sakhr 17 3 A brutal Islamic State attack on a small town leaves seventeen defenders dead.
2014.08.01 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A politician is shot to death outside a mosque 'on the orders of Allah'
2014.08.01 Syria Qalamoun 7 0 al-Nusra Islamists kill seven people.
2014.08.01 Iraq Mosul 14 0 Fourteen others are killed when Islamic State militants attack a dam.
2014.08.01 Iraq Sadr City 9 21 A Sunni car bomb along a busy street in a Shiite district claims the lives of nine innocents.
2014.08.01 Pal. Auth. Rafah 3 0 A suicide attack during a ceasefire leaves three IDF dead.
2014.08.01 Iraq Baghdad 5 16 Three sectarian bomb attacks on a Shiite mosque kills five people.
2014.08.01 Afghanistan Nuristan 3 0 A woman and her 3-year-old child are shot to death by Taliban fundamentalists.
2014.07.31 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 A woman is put to death for criticizing the Islamic State.
2014.07.31 Iraq Sadr City 3 13 Terrorists bomb a gas station in a Shia area, killing three people in line.
2014.07.31 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 44-year-old man is hit six times in the chest by Muslim gunmen.
2014.07.31 Iraq Tikrit 17 0 Islamic State members execute seventeen civilians.
2014.07.31 Iraq Haditha 6 18 Six local security personnel are ambushed and killed by Islamic State militants.
2014.07.31 Pakistan Umerkot 2 0 Two Hindu brothers are shot to death during a targeted robbery.
2014.07.30 Nigeria Kano 6 6 A female suicide bomber detonates at a university, killing student volunteers.
2014.07.30 Somalia Hosingow 1 0 A mother of two is shot to death for refusing to wear the hijab.
2014.07.30 China Kashgar 1 0 A pro-government imam is stabbed to death outside his mosque by religious radicals.
2014.07.30 Pakistan Quetta 2 0 Two Hazara Shias are gunned down in a targeted sectarian attack.
2014.07.30 Iraq Baqubah 15 0 Fifteen Sunni civilians are captured and executed by Shia militia.
2014.07.30 Iraq Sadr City 16 28 Sunnis detonate a car bomb amid restaurants and shops populated by Shia, laying out at least sixteen.
2014.07.30 Iraq Anbar 6 6 A brutal Mujahid car bomb claims the lives of six people.
2014.07.29 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 1 Two people are assassinated by a suicide bomber who hid the explosives in his turban.
2014.07.29 Nigeria Dogo Tebo 11 37 A suicide bomber sends eleven worshippers at a rival mosque straight to Allah.
2014.07.29 Nigeria Anguwar Bolawa 2 0 A second suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque leaves two dead.
2014.07.29 Libya Benghazi 30 81 Thirty people are killed when Islamist fighters overrun a military base.
2014.07.29 Bangladesh Sylhet 1 100 One person is beaten to death during a riot sparked by a non-fasting person attending Eid prayers.
2014.07.29 Libya Benghazi 3 0 Three civilians are killed when an Islamic militia rocket hits their house.
2014.07.29 Pakistan Lower Dir 6 0 A half-dozen people inside are killed when Taliban militants assault a house.
2014.07.29 Iraq Tikrit 200 0 The Islamic State releases a video showing the mass execution of hundreds of Shiite men and boys.
2014.07.29 Syria Raqqa 35 0 ISIS posts thirty-five more heads in the town square.
2014.07.29 Pakistan Charsadda 2 1 Fundamentalists are suspected of shooting two off-duty policemen to death.
2014.07.28 Nigeria Katarko 8 12 Pro-Sharia militants throw explosives into homes and shoot those trying to flee.
2014.07.28 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A villager on foot loses his life to suspected Muslim gunmen.
2014.07.28 Philippines Talipao 23 11 Women and six children are among twenty-three machine-gunned point-blank by Abu Sayyaf.
2014.07.28 Pal. Auth. Gaza 10 46 Nine children are among ten killed when a Hamas rocket falls short.
2014.07.28 Nigeria Garkida 40 0 Forty civilians are reported killed during a Boko Haram attack.
2014.07.28 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three women are handcuffed and shot in the head by Mujahideen.
2014.07.28 Pakistan Gujranwala 4 8 Two young girls are among four members of an Ahmadi religious minority family burned alive after an angry mob sets fire to their home over alleged 'blasphemy'.
2014.07.28 Israel Nahal Oz 5 0 Hamas terrorists tunnel into Israel and murder five soldiers.
2014.07.28 Iraq Baghdad 14 0 The bodies of fourteen male victims of sectarian killings are found bound and tortured.
2014.07.28 Nigeria Kano 3 8 A female suicide bomber detonates at a gas station killing three other women lining up to buy kerosene.
2014.07.28 Nigeria Kano 0 6 A Fedayeen suicide bomber blows herself up at a shopping mall.
2014.07.28 Iraq Baghdad 6 21 Mujahideen bombs claim the lives of six Iraqis.
2014.07.28 Pakistan Jamrud 1 0 A local soldier is kidnapped and beheaded by religious radicals.
2014.07.28 Israel Eshkol 4 9 Four civilians die from a Hamas rocket.
2014.07.28 China Xinjiang 37 13 Thirty-seven (mostly ethnic Han) civilians are slaughtered by an Islamic mob armed with axes and knives.
2014.07.28 Pal. Auth. Shejaiya 20 0 Twenty Palestinian protesters are executed by Hamas for protesting Hamas.
2014.07.28 Egypt Sheikh Zuwaid 1 10 A 9-year-old girl dies from shrapnel produced by an Islamist rocket.
2014.07.27 Thailand Pattani 1 7 A young girl is reduced to pulp by an Muslim 'insurgent' bomb.
2014.07.27 Iraq Tuz Khurmato 2 4 Two women are pulled into pieces by a Jihad car bomb at an outdoor market.
2014.07.27 Cameroon Kolofata 18 22 Boko Haram kill eighteen civilians.
2014.07.27 Pakistan Karachi 2 1 A 6-year-old girl is among the casualties of an Islamist shooting attack.
2014.07.27 Pakistan Mirokas 1 0 Militants fighting for Sharia kill a bus driver with a roadside bomb.
2014.07.27 Yemen Abyan 2 11 Two others are killed by suicide bombers.
2014.07.27 Iraq Jurf al-Sakhar 3 4 Islamic State terrorists attack a police station and kill three officers.
2014.07.27 Israel Border 1 0 A soldier is killed by a Hamas rocket fired into Israel.
2014.07.27 Nigeria Kano 0 5 A female suicide bomber detonates along a city street.
2014.07.27 Nigeria Kano 5 8 Muslim extremists throw a bomb into a Catholic church, killing five worshippers.
2014.07.27 Afghanistan Spinboldak 2 0 A child is among two people taken out by Shahid suicide bombers at their home.
2014.07.27 Iraq Taji 6 0 An entire Shiite family of six is found beheaded in their home by Religion of Peace rivals.
2014.07.27 Pakistan Jamrud 1 0 Members of a religious group behead a former member.
2014.07.27 Nigeria Hong 30 0 Thirty villagers are slaughtered randomly by Boko Haram gunmen.
2014.07.27 Nigeria Shafa 2 0 Two men are shot to death by Boko Haram.
2014.07.26 Pakistan Karachi 5 0 Five Shiites are shot to death by Sunni radicals in three separate attacks.
2014.07.26 Libya Benghazi 34 87 Three dozen people soldiers are killed during a sustained assault by Ansar al-Sharia.
2014.07.26 Pakistan Gulshan-e-Iqbal 1 3 A prayer leader is murdered outside his mosque by Religion of Peace rivals.
2014.07.26 Iraq Taji 6 0 Six security personnel are captured, handcuffed and shot in the head by Sunni extremists.
2014.07.26 Tunisia Kef 2 6 Armed fundamentalists ambush and kill two local soldiers.
2014.07.26 Nigeria Hawul 2 0 Two Christians are beheaded by Boko Haram.
2014.07.26 Syria Azaz 4 4 Islamists set off a bomb in a vegetable market, killing children and the elderly.
2014.07.26 India Saharanpur 2 19 Two Sikhs are murdered in a violent Muslim attack.
2014.07.26 India Sopore 1 4 One person dies when a Muslim extremist tosses a grenade into the street.
2014.07.26 Pakistan Zubaida 1 1 A teenage girl is murdered by her conservative brother on suspicion that she is having sex.
2014.07.26 Afghanistan Marjah 4 4 Four civilians are disassembled by a Taliban bomb.
2014.07.26 Egypt Rafah 4 5 Four children are wiped out by a rocket fired by Islamic militia.
2014.07.26 Libya Tripoli 23 0 A rocket fired by suspected Islamic militia hits a house and kills twenty-three laborers.
2014.07.26 Thailand Betong 2 52 Muslim terrorists set off a car bomb in front of a hotel that claims the lives of two young people.
2014.07.25 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 2 0 Religious radicals kill two meat shop employees with a bomb.
2014.07.25 Cameroon Bargaram 4 0 Four Cameroon soldiers are killed during a cross-border raid by Boko Haram.
2014.07.25 Yemen Baida 5 2 al-Qaeda members fire heavy machine-guns into a police checkpoint, exterminating five officers.
2014.07.25 Iraq Kirkuk 4 15 Four Shiites are liquidated by a targeted bomb attack.
2014.07.25 Afghanistan Ghor 15 0 Three women and a child are among fifteen Shiites singled out and pulled off a bus by dedicated Sunnis, who bound their hands and then execute them.
2014.07.25 Iraq Tikrit 18 0 Eighteen suspected victims of the Islamic State are found bound and executed.
2014.07.25 Syria Raqqa 50 0 At least fifty Syrian soldiers are captured and beheaded by Islamic State militants, who then post the heads on a long row of fence posts.
2014.07.25 India Sopore 1 0 A local cop is gunned down by Lashkar-e-Toiba militants.
2014.07.25 Egypt Sheikh Zuwaid 2 0 Two army officers are shot to death by suspected Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis.
2014.07.24 Iraq Taji 61 19 A massive suicide attack on a convoy transporting prisoners leaves sixty dead.
2014.07.24 Syria Raqqa 19 0 Nineteen people are reported dead following a double suicide attack.
2014.07.24 Afghanistan Nangarhar 2 1 A Shahid suicide bomber takes the lives of two local cops.
2014.07.24 Iraq Baghdad 21 33 A double car-bombing rips through a commercial district, snuffing out the lives of over twenty innocents.
2014.07.24 Cameroon Bargaram 1 0 A pastor's body is found after he is abducted by Boko Haram.
2014.07.24 Afghanistan Takhar 6 26 A Fedayeen suicide bomber on a motorcycle slaughters six people at a packed market.
2014.07.24 Yemen Lahj 1 0 al-Qaeda gunmen pick off a man outside his home.
2014.07.24 Nigeria Garubulu 15 0 Islamists enter a village and calmly machine-gun fifteen residents.
2014.07.24 Afghanistan Herat 2 0 Two female aid workers for a Christian charity are shot to death by Muslim radicals.
2014.07.24 Nigeria Kano 1 8 Boko Haram is suspected of a bombing that leaves one dead in a bus park.
2014.07.23 Nigeria Kawo 50 37 At least fifty people at a market are incinerated by a suicide bus bombing, including woman and children.
2014.07.23 Nigeria Kaduna 35 14 Three dozen people bleed to death following a suicide bomb attack on a rival cleric and his followers.
2014.07.23 Pakistan Karachi 1 2 Gunmen attack a vehicle carrying a Shia family, killing the mother.
2014.07.23 Pakistan Badaber 1 2 Tehreek-e-Taliban members attack the home of a judge, killing a guard.
2014.07.23 Iraq Samarra 8 0 Eight Iraqi soldiers are kidnapped and executed by Islamic radicals.
2014.07.23 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A 60-year-old Shiite man is gunned down by Sunnis while buying fruit.
2014.07.23 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 Fundamentalists gun down a female singer turned lawmaker.
2014.07.23 Iraq Sharqat 1 0 A female politician is murdered by IS fundamentalists.
2014.07.23 Israel Eshkol 1 0 A civilian is killed by a Hamas mortar round.
2014.07.23 Iraq Jalawla 6 0 Islamic State gunmen execute six people for being related to a policeman.
2014.07.22 Iraq Kirkuk 6 0 ISIL kidnap and murder six taxi drivers.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2014.htm (rest of list)
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 9, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
Bullsh#t.

No way can you call a Hamas rocket falling into Israel an Islamic act. If you do, then the 300 children killed in an Israeli bombing was Jewish terrorism.

Terrorism or fight against oppression, maybe. Violence against a hated oppressor, certainly.

When the Stern gang and Menachem Begin bombed the King David Hotel in 1948 and killed innocents and UN negotiator Count Betancourt it was called a great step in the foundation of the state of Israel.
http://terrorism.about.com/od/groupsleader1/p/MenachemBegin.htm
Begin got a Nobel Peace prize.
Was that terrorism a Jewish act?

And the same could be said in Ireland.

Your list is simplistic crap.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 9, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
The Koblane campaign reminds me of Stalingrad - Turkey being the Volga

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 9, 2014 - 05:44pm PT
It would seem that we are letting them take Koblane to put the pressure on
Turkey to step up to the plate. So far they don't even seem to want to
select a bat and get in the on deck circle - effing Islamic hypocrites.
Makes me want to cancel my birding trip to Turkey next year. Interestingly,
one of the stops isn't that far from Koblane! I hope the wind doesn't blow
some of Assad's nerve gas over the border while we're there.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 9, 2014 - 05:50pm PT
meh, we don't care any more. We're always getting blindsided by these 1,000 year old tribal feuds.
But a lot of tribes, swore allegiance to ISIS this month, it's much bigger now.
war, is getting serious, Big stuff

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Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 9, 2014 - 05:57pm PT
^^^ nothing will ever end the stupidity of people who think everything is about Islam.

It's about money and power.

Stupid Americans.
Binks

climber
Uranus
Oct 9, 2014 - 06:00pm PT
probably about as long as the list of US school shootings
Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Oct 9, 2014 - 06:39pm PT
Meanwhile, we have domestic terrorists inflicting their brand of death on the US:

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including an estimated 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.

ISL has a long way to go before they catch up with these mofos...

And don't even begin to ask what the cost is per capita for us taxpayers to fund their reign of terror:

More than $289 billion a year, including at least $133 billion in direct medical care for adults and more than $156 billion in lost productivity.
$5.6 billion a year (2006 data) in lost productivity from exposure to secondhand smoke
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 9, 2014 - 06:46pm PT
And how do you feel about legalizing the smoking of other substances?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 9, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
Can somebody explain how a country that has been constantly at war for about a century and has actually dropped nuclear weapons on humans is in the middle 20% on the Global Peace Index?

Do you understand who started the wars that you refer to that resulted in us dropping 2 nukes? Do you understand that 2 warnings were issued to the Japs before said nukes were dropped?

They refused both surrender options, even the second one after we proved that we meant business. And yeah, more people would have died if we did a ground invasion. Dropping the nukes was a wise, strategic decision.

^^^ nothing will ever end the stupidity of people who think everything is about Islam.

It's about money and power.

Stupid Americans.

All Islamist terrorists kill directly in the name of Allah. How does that have nothing to do with Islam? They f*#king CALL THEMSELVES the Islamic State!

The Fort Hood shooter just sent a letter to the Pope declaring jihad in the name of Allah, and said he hated all other religions.

New developments in Iraq. ISIS got ahold of MANPADS surface-to-air rockets.
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/isis-uses-manpads-to-down-iraqi-chopper/

Are these the same MANPADS that the CIA (and Amb. Stevens) was trying to recover in Benghazi, Libya?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 9, 2014 - 06:58pm PT
As these lines are being written, some 400,000 Kurds in and around the town of Kobane in northern Syria, on the Turkish border, are being besieged and assaulted by massed legions of Islamic State killers armed with scores of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and heavy artillery. Against these, the Kurdish defenders have only AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The Kurds have called on the U.S. to send in air strikes to take out the jihadist forces. In response, the administration sent in two fighter jets Saturday, which destroyed two Islamic State tanks and then flew away. The Kurds are begging for arms. The administration has not only refused to send arms, but is exerting pressure both on our NATO allies and on Israel not to send any either. Over 150,000 Kurds have fled their homes to try to escape to Turkey, but they are being blocked at the border by Turkish troops. Meanwhile, Turkey is allowing Islamist reinforcements to enter Syria to join the Islamic State, while Islamist elements of the Free Syrian Army, funded and armed by the United States, have joined forces with the group in the genocidal assault on the Kurdish enclave.

According to Kurdish sources, the Turks are massing troops on their own side of the border, with the apparent plan being to sit in place and allow the Kurds to be exterminated, and then move in to take over the region once they are gone...For an American administration to collude in such a mass atrocity is infamous.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389096/obama-betrays-kurds-robert-zubrin

Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Oct 9, 2014 - 07:01pm PT
And how do you feel about legalizing the smoking of other substances?

The point is perspective and what's really killing mass quantities of people, but I'll give you credit for trying to change the subject with a non sequitur question.

Cannabis has medically proven benefits, so I approve it. Frankly, I personally would not smoke it but rather eat it for a longer, more mellow effect that doesn't leave me coughing and accidentally drinking old bong water...
Binks

climber
Uranus
Oct 9, 2014 - 07:29pm PT
it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine...
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 9, 2014 - 07:40pm PT
Sorry Locker, but it ain't no joke.

We have a POTUS that is an active conspirator in a genocide.

but then that's nothing new.

so was Andrew Jackson
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 9, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
The point is perspective and what's really killing mass quantities of people, but I'll give you credit for trying to change the subject with a non sequitur question.

Cannabis has medically proven benefits, so I approve it. Frankly, I personally would not smoke it but rather eat it for a longer, more mellow effect that doesn't leave me coughing and accidentally drinking old bong water...


The dangers of tobacco smoke come from carcinogens. If there are no additives to tobacco smoke, only smoking leaves, is that just "as natural" as marijuana?

It's not. Marijuana, whether eaten or smoked, contains many toxic compounds not found in tobacco. And that's just if it's grown in a "clean" environment. The outdoor sh#t is often grown within heavy metals like the dreaded Quicksilver, or Mercury.

This is especially prevalent in California, home of the Purple Kush, which in my time was THE SH#T.

a reference to why Indians died young in Cali....
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-living/ci_26690064/nilda-rego-19th-century-quicksilver-mine-had-contentious
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 9, 2014 - 08:15pm PT
Thanks for keeping your eye on the ball. Some people seem to forget that we need to base our national security policy on the actions of a single nutcase in prison.


You're missing the entire point here.

Nidal Hassan is STILL being classified as a "workplace violence" event instead of a terrorism event! What more does it take to fall into 'terrorism'????

It IS INDEED a national security event. And these people, like him, should indeed be monitored and taken down, and then properly labeled as jihadists.

The Oklahoma beheader is still workplace violence too despite all of his rages online about jihad!
crankster

Trad climber
Oct 9, 2014 - 08:24pm PT

Oct 9, 2014 - 07:40pm PT
Sorry Locker, but it ain't no joke.

We have a POTUS that is an active conspirator in a genocide.

but then that's nothing new.

so was Andrew Jackson

You've lost it, martini. Off the deep end.
Send Robert Zubrin to Mars. Now.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 9, 2014 - 09:11pm PT
All Islamist terrorists kill directly in the name of Allah. How does that have nothing to do with Islam? They f*#king CALL THEMSELVES the Islamic State!

Did you ever hear the phrase " for God and Country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo"?

That was from a Christian US Navy seal when he killed Bin a Laden. And radioed back to a bunch of Christians in the White House. We even have " in God we trust " on all our money.

Or George Bush's famous " this Crusade is going to take a while"?

If you use the same standard it was done in the name of Christanity.

Focus on the real issues. The Middle East is a place the West carved up a century ago and have murdered civilians in two invasions in the last couple decades. The British learned Aireal bombing on Iraquis seventy years ago. Then they, the French, and we carved up the Middle East across ethnic lines for our own purposes.
Why is there no Kurdish state, for instance? Because it doesn't suit us.


We have killed more Iraqi civilians than isis will in a decade and we did it for the oil.

And we wonder why they hate us.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 10, 2014 - 09:05am PT
waste? what waste? more splosions please.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 10, 2014 - 09:13am PT

Most of the C-27 transport aircraft given to the Afghanistan military as part of a failed $486 million Defense Department program were locally scrapped for just $32,000, federal auditors said Thursday.

Why, were two engines too complicated? Or were they affronted that those
Alenias only cost us $53 million?
dirt claud

Social climber
san diego,ca
Oct 10, 2014 - 09:29am PT
Just can't get your head out of Obamas ass huhh Dr. F.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 11, 2014 - 08:36am PT
Did you ever hear the phrase " for God and Country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo"?

Navy Seal follows orders to kill a cult-leader who executes civilians and thanks God and country? I got no problem, you do? And 'Geronimo' was the code-word for Asshat Osama.

We even have " in God we trust " on all our money.

So? We are a country founded on Judeo/Christian principles, AND are still a primarily Christian nation, whether you like it or not...

Or George Bush's famous " this Crusade is going to take a while"?

I don't think he meant that in the historical context, but rather it would be a long road.


Focus on the real issues. The Middle East is a place the West carved up a century ago and have murdered civilians in two invasions in the last couple decades. The British learned Aireal bombing on Iraqis seventy years ago. Then they, the French, and we carved up the Middle East across ethnic lines for our own purposes.

Maybe it was done for their own good. It was carved up on ethno/religious lines. Go back and read what Churchill said about the area when he was serving over there. He referred to them as Mohammedans though.

Also, ask yourself why the peacenik Ghanndi advocated for the separation on India into India/Pakistan, thus separating muzzies and hindus. Was he an 'evil-doer'? And how has that worked out?

There is only one religion that seems to have problems getting along with it's PEACEFUL neighbors. It ain't Christians either, we're usually called upon to sort out the mess after things get really ugly.

Why is there no Kurdish state, for instance?

Good question. I'm in favor of a Kurdistan, but wouldn't that be more of us "nation-building"? Are you being hypocritical here?

We have killed more Iraqi civilians than isis will in a decade and we did it for the oil.

Remains to be seen.

And we wonder why they hate us.


I don't care. I don't wonder. A lot of people 'dislike' me who have no idea of who I am.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 11, 2014 - 10:18am PT
The shitstorm grows and grows. I wouldn't want to be the president right now:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/11/world/meast/isis-threat/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Oct 11, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
I wouldn't necessarily call Islam the religion of peace. Several years ago I worked with several engineers from Egypt and Syria. They were good decent guys, but the religion has some problems. This is a summary of what a friend wrote.

Mohammed is recorded as dying, on or about, 632 AD.
Islam had its own agenda long before the Crusades. If peaceful -- what were Muslim armies doing in Europe 300 years before the Crusades? And hundred of years thereafter?
Seventy-seven years after Mohammed's death, in 711 AD -- some 300 years prior to the first Crusade -- it was Muslim military forces who crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from North Africa into Spain and in less than a decade crossed the Pyrenees.
In 732 AD , the Muslim forces under the command of Abd-er- rahman, were decisively defeated by Charles Martel and the Franks at the Battle of Poitiers [Tours].
800 years later in 1571 the fleet of the Ottoman Empire was defeated at the Battle of Lepanto by the fleet of the Holy League, a combined naval force of Catholic countries led by Don John of Austria and contained vessels from Venice, Spain, the Papal States, Genoa, Savoy, and Malta.
Nine hundred years later, in September 1683 AD -- Ottoman Empire Muslim armies led by the Turkish commander Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha were at the gates of Vienna.
They were defeated by a combination of Austrian, German, and Polish armies.
Islam was not spread by sandal shod mendicant mullahs preaching from the Koran but by mounted scimitar wielding jihadists. If peace was Mohammed's message -- a subtle proposition at best -- his adherents missed the point then and miss it now.
Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Oct 11, 2014 - 04:48pm PT
Ghandi was vehemently opposed to partitioning India for the violence he correctly foresaw. Do you even take a moment to fact check before you hit "post"?
Bargainhunter

climber
Oct 11, 2014 - 11:27pm PT
They appear to be arriving in Baghdad. Read the bolded sentences below. Where is the global coalition to stop these pathetic asswipes? The regional apathy is ridiculous.

"Four Bombings Kill Over 50 People Around Baghdad
By KIRK SEMPLEOCT. 11, 2014

BAGHDAD — A rash of bombings in several districts around greater Baghdad on Saturday killed more than 50 people and wounded nearly 100, unnerving the capital on what, for many, was the final day of a weeklong holiday.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a crowded market in Mishahda, in the rural northern outskirts of the capital, killing 14 people and wounding 27, said police officials and an employee at a hospital, all of whom requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Three more bombings occurred in quick succession around nightfall. A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives detonated his payload at a police checkpoint in Khadamiya, a predominantly Shiite middle-class neighborhood in northern Baghdad, killing 12 people, including four police officers, and wounding 20, officials said.

Around the same time, a car packed with explosives exploded next to a marketplace in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shula in northwestern Baghdad, killing eight and wounding 24, officials said.

After the Shula bombing, authorities blocked off the road leading to the scene, causing traffic to back up, and cars were rerouted. The final attack occurred when a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle into the traffic congestion and set off his explosives, killing 17 people and wounding 28, officials said.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the predominantly Sunni jihadist insurgency called Islamic State, which has taken control of vast regions of the country, often uses suicide bombers and car bombs, usually targeting majority-Shiite neighborhoods. Saturday was the end of a holiday week that began with the celebration of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice.

Elsewhere in Iraq, fighters for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, killed four brothers, including an Iraqi cameraman for a local television station in Salahuddin Province, which is predominantly Sunni, officials and local tribal leaders said Saturday. The journalist, Raad al-Azzawi, and his brothers were shot in the head on Friday in a village near Tikrit while their mother was forced to watch, the officials said.

Mr. Azzawi was kidnapped on Sept. 7 by the insurgents, who said they planned to decapitate him because he refused to work for them, according to Reporters Without Borders, a watchdog group based in Paris.

Omar al-Jawoshy contributed reporting from Baghdad, and employees of The New York Times from Baghdad and Tikrit, Iraq.

A version of this article appears in print on October 12, 2014, on page A12 of the New York edition with the headline: Bombings Kill Over 50 In Baghdad. "
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 12, 2014 - 03:04am PT
Ghandi was vehemently opposed to partitioning India for the violence he correctly foresaw. Do you even take a moment to fact check before you hit "post"?


Actually, you're correct. For some reason I was under the impression that the peacenik favored the separation.

They're still firing shots, yesterday, across the LOC (line of control) in the disputed Kashmir region.

Makes you really wonder....what will it take?
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 12, 2014 - 04:58am PT
They appear to be arriving in Baghdad. Read the bolded sentences below. Where is the global coalition to stop these pathetic asswipes? The regional apathy is ridiculous.


The Iraqi Army still grossly outnumbers them, if they will only stand and fight with the stuff we gave them.

This is their religion. It will re occur forever. They need to come to some sort of resolution on their own.

Though we should give the millions in refugee camps weapons and tell them to go reclaim their homes.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 12, 2014 - 07:41am PT
Would appear, ISIS, is looking to cut Iraq in half. Probably the way this will go. Three different partitions at the end of the day. At some point, Iran, will have to invade. Prolly around the time that big Shia mosque gets blown up.

The world needs an Islamic State, so Islamic people have somewhere to go, other than blowing themselves up here.

A martyrdom operation west of Tikrit. Iran must not be happy this morning. Guy drives FOUR TONS of explosives, in a truck, into the facility and blows himself up. A simple matter after that, to destroy any stunned survivors. Then grab the weapons the US gave and roll westward.



The armored truck prior to the blast.

WBraun

climber
Oct 12, 2014 - 08:01am PT
The District of Criminals is running this show.

All the monkeys in the District of Criminals are at the mercy of their organ grinders.

Nobody is looking at these organ grinders.

Instead the phoney show on the surface keeps going on.

The nutcases think the two party American democrazy system is real.

But it is now a bunch of monkeys run by a criminal system of organ grinders.

Americans are still falling for the media illusionary front that only the public gets to see .......
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 12, 2014 - 08:13am PT
what locker said hahah
I too was looking for J Tackles route on Denali
more hahahahah
and yes this Isis is not funny
end times ?.
WBraun

climber
Oct 12, 2014 - 08:21am PT
US ruthlessness, imperial lawlessness, permanent wars, mass slaughter and destruction all are the trademarks of these monkeys in the District of Criminals.

The leader of America was awarded the Nobel peace Prize.

Yes they got their "peace" in their grave "R.I.P. ......
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 12, 2014 - 09:27am PT
The end is near...Time to give Palin the briefcase with the launch codes...
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 12, 2014 - 09:39am PT
In historical terms the current shenanigans in the ME are lite. Compared to the Iran/Iraq War
in the 80's it is really lite. They like this stuff, you know, why else do they keep doing it?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 12, 2014 - 10:05am PT
I'm sooooo tired of this Islamic bullsh#t. Religion of peace, my ass!

It's time to just let the 2 factions of Islam shoot it out. They will NEVER get along and will continue to kill anyone around them who thinks differently, even muslims.

They are intolerant and incompatible with the modern world. They must be extinguished.

Think about it.

They're worse than a deadly virus because they spread their hate digitally.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 12, 2014 - 10:09am PT
indeed

here's a new little album they posted last week. WARNING GRAPHIC

http://justpaste.it/hij7
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 12, 2014 - 10:25am PT
Why is Turkey not expelled from NATO? We, a member of NATO, are trying to protect innocent Kurds, Iraqis, Yazidis, and Syrians from an onslaught of rape, murder, and plunder and Turkey sits at their border and does nothing?

The French, British, Aussies, and Arabs are in on it, where the f*#k is Turkey?

The Turks should be ejected from NATO. AND the Kurds should be given their own land and replace Turkey as a member of NATO. Boom!
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 12, 2014 - 10:36am PT
NATO is useless. I went on a NATO exercise, and somehow got late night radio operator detail (I was a medic ). You had to hear the meaningless babel in the night over the radio, to know, that in combat, it will never work.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 12, 2014 - 11:08am PT
You're right, there. NATO is just a bureaucratic nightmare, although at
their worst they are light years better than a UN peacekeeper force.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 12, 2014 - 12:17pm PT
Their ability to recruit infinite numbers of foreign suicide bombers, is a huge asset. From earlier today....

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/12/Three-car-bombs-kill-25-north-of-Iraq-s-Baquba.html

By Saif Sameer | Reuters, Baghdad
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Suspected Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) bombers assassinated an Iraqi provincial police chief and killed 28 people in an attack on a Kurdish security headquarters on Sunday, a second straight day of mass attacks that killed scores.

The two attacks, in the north of the country and the west, showed the jihadist group's ability to inflict damage on both the forces of the autonomous Kurdish region and the central government, despite U.S.-led air strikes.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing of a Kurdish security compound in the north, saying it had sent three foreign bombers: a German, a Saudi and a Turk, according to SITE, a group that monitors Islamist militant announcements
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Oct 12, 2014 - 10:52pm PT
Kurdish female fighters are loading their gun to stop ISIS

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and not to forget that innocent kids are been killed while bunch mufti-national cooperation are benefiting from arms sale

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Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Oct 12, 2014 - 11:32pm PT
I'm not particularly enamored of the "air only" strategy, but I'm wondering whatever happened to Napalm?

I also don't quite understand why artillery cannot be neutralized.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 03:16am PT
NATO is just a bureaucratic nightmare, although at
their worst they are light years better than a UN peacekeeper force.


Ain't that the truth....

Why is the UN so silent on this issue? (rhetorical question, or course.)
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 13, 2014 - 04:36am PT
ISIS, only looks at women as sex slaves.

//The teenage girls who abandoned their families in Austria to become jihadis for ISIS feel they’ve made a terrible mistake by joining the barbaric lifestyle and they want to come home.

Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, are believed to be married, pregnant and living in the Islamic State-controlled city of Raqqa in northern Syria, Central European News reports.

Dubbed by Austrian media as the poster girls for jihad, the young friends now believe their lives have been turned upside down by their new lifestyle

The change of heart is a much different tune than the note they left behind for their parents when they fled back in April, which read: “Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah — and we will die for him.”

Kesinovic and Selimovic grew up in Vienna, where they became accustomed to talking to whomever they wanted, saying whatever they pleased and wearing whatever clothes they liked. They did not have to live a life being controlled by people telling them what they can and cannot do.

But Kesinovic and Selimovic decided to leave all that behind and shack up with the same people they’ve now grown to hate.

For weeks, social media accounts believed to belong to the girls have been posting pictures and information leading many to feel they enjoyed living a life of terr//or.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b7_1412953677#dGPkkvfY7z9SM0VD.99
WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:56am PT
You people don't get it.

There is no real interest to stop ISIS.

It's all only show.

That's why it's only limited air attacks.

The real plan is to keep them going as they are the proxy fighters of US, Israel, Britain, etc,
to take out Syria, Iran and install the puppet they need to capture the oil and resources that the industrialized nations are slurping daily.

You people have no clue that the industrialized beast needs to eat at the expense of everyone else.

YOU CREATED ISIS.

YOU CREATE THE WORLD according to YOUR desires.

YOUR desires are to have this so called advance civilization and High standard of living.

Instead the side effect is YOU are completely at odds with material nature itself.

Thus you are stupid Americans blaming everything outside of your own self.

YOU are the cause ......
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:02am PT
I beg to differ a bit, Werner. Dislodging Assad was the initial goal of this administration. It was part of their failed 'Arab Spring' that completely f*#king melted down in their faces, and yeah the goal was to inhibit Russian force in the area and advance Saudi interests.

As with the other parts of the Arab Spring, everything went backwards. The prez and his group of university scholars are in WAY over their heads. Susan Rice, Val Jarret, Hillary, and that f*#king c#&% Samantha Power have no idea what they're doing! Or they're undoing things very well....

Werner, you're right that we started this. I should say THEY started it because I was totally against it from the get-go.

Where we disagree is that I think we need to end what WE instigated. Innocent people are falling victim to our ineptitude and we HAVE to protect them and defend them.

Pulling our remaining 15,000 troops out of Iraq coincides directly with the rise of ISIS in Iraq. Major mistake.

Not deploying power at the outset of violence was the next mistake.

This president only acts in his own interests, not in the interests of the country. He is first, not the welfare of the country. That is not good.

Furthermore, he doesn't give a f*#k about allies. Why would he, he doesn't care about the welfare of his own country (unless it suits him well).

The situation is dire IMO. But I have hope for the Kurds, tough mother-f*#kers.
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/643321


Look at her right hand (the finger), on the AK. You think she trusts anybody? Subtle?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:22am PT

I'm not particularly enamored of the "air only" strategy, but I'm wondering whatever happened to Napalm?

There is this convention on conventional weapons document Obama signed on His first day in office. Frying people with the Harvard candle is now a war crime along with water boarding.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:27am PT
Obama was just going along with the Agreement that we signed, and was ENDORSED BY the Military

Why Blue?

Why blame Obama for what Bush did?

You know that is inaccurate. It was not Bush. He left the base/troops there.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/Obama-s-Politics-of-War
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:51am PT
I love it when hand-wringing bureaucrats try to make war politically correct
and humane. Nape was and would still be extremely effective, especially for
close air support, because it only has to be close and, probably more
importantly, it is a psychological weapon. We should make ISIS an exception.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:58am PT
What ever happened to love...?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 10:15am PT
hand-wringing bureaucrats are kinda like internet armchair quarterbacks

BwaHaHaHa! Was that a quote by Sun Tzu or Genghis Khan?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 13, 2014 - 10:24am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]


Destabilizing Arab countries was planned in 1992.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 11:08am PT
Maye it was by Lao Tzu? ;-)
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 11:45am PT
Status of Forces Agreement, 2008

Did you do any research on the Obama admin's negotiations on the renewed STOF agreement?

You'll have to look real hard....he didn't want one.

Ask Gates and Panetta.
Studly

Trad climber
WA
Oct 13, 2014 - 12:02pm PT
Its very simple to stop Isis. Stop the flow of arms and ammo to them. They cannot sustain battle without it. No way. Its got to be coming from somewhere, cut it off. But you never hear any discussion of practical solutions to end this crisis. Its just more war and soliders and military might and money, thats what we are told is needed.
Does everyone have their head up their ass or are we all so brainwashed we can't think clearly anymore?
WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 12:11pm PT
Studly gets it.

The politards are all always on vacation under Obama's desk.

Their knee-pads must be getting worn .....
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 12:21pm PT
Stop the flow of arms and ammo to them.

You do know how many arms are there for the taking in the ME, don't you?
They've captured most of their heavy stuff. Who would be supplying them,
other than sympathizers in the so-called Iraq army? Certainly not Iran and
most assuredly none of the usual suspects like the UAE or other deep pockets
because ISIS scares the beallah outta them, too.
WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 12:24pm PT
USA Israel Britain Saudis etc, are all supporting ISIS.

They're lying like hell thru their controlled media that they are not.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 13, 2014 - 12:33pm PT
ISIS can't behead you if your head is up your a*#..Just saying...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 01:01pm PT
Its very simple to stop Isis. Stop the flow of arms and ammo to them.


Sounds like something an idiot like Obama would say.

You're talking about a group that saws heads off with KNIVES. They will always find ammo. They have the will to kill, we don't. This is why we're losing this fight.

Waltzing around this sh#t like it's a teacher's lounge is bullsh#t. Men need to take charge and start killing people, to stop the killing.

It's really that simple.
WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
"The only answer will be New Governments with new leaders that give the jobless a job, and clean up their country of extremism."


You just did the exact same thing you claimed bluering did.

It's really that simple itf you are a simpleton.

You're hypocrite and a Dr Failed .....
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Oct 13, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
Thanks, Kos. You are undoubtedly right.

That lag is definitely problematic. I guess I was thinking more in terms of forward observers directing fire, but I suppose that is not the tactic being applied, here.

Somehow, it seems like when the enemy encroaches 1/4 mile into the town, leveling that 1/4 mile would be relatively easy, and create a "killing zone" that would have to be crossed by the invader, and really slow things down.
Of course, the line is not uniform.


I imagine you have to be there to really visualize the situation.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 01:48pm PT
Craig, the SOFA was never going to happen with Obama. It was one of the show-boats that he had to do. He promised, erroneously, to end the war in Iraq and pull everybody out.

He did that! Against the consensus of his generals....

EDIT:
Blueting Patton, how would you take out ISIS, my man!?

AC-130 gunships, brah....Thanks for asking!!!!

EDIT, EDIT:
Got it.

Uh, when ya going???

You really think you're being clever by doing this all the time, dontcha? It only shows that you have nothing else to offer, nothing. Have a solution?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 02:07pm PT
Here, Craig;

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-fruit-of-obamas-abandonment-of-iraq/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-the-violence-in-iraq-obamas-fault/
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 13, 2014 - 02:14pm PT
The Islamic State, announcing it's taken another key installation in Anbar. When Anbar falls, they'll be on the Saudi border.

The Almighty said: ((and you love another victory of God and the opening of a nearby human beings and believers)) Grade: 13

With the dawn of this day rose draped the Islamic Caliphate for hugging strands of golden sun in the most housings immunized and most several hardware in the city of Hit, namely Camp Hit Safavid after battle fierce intensified fueled dawn yesterday between Jund al-Rahman and recruited the devil and used the enemy various types of weapons under the cover of Joy Crusader and Safavi heavy, but Assembly of God antiques close friends and kindness guarded They were heavier than the mountains firmly on the battleground and which forces opponents and lift their spirits news of the destruction of the police chief of Anbar (Ahmed Saddak Dulaimi) at the hands of their brothers in Ramadi was that motivate them to finish the fight quickly and Hadém words of Ibn Rawahah :

But I ask the forgiveness of Rahman and finished with a blow thrown Zubda

Or stab my hand Harran equipped with a bayonet implemented viscera and Alqaibda

Even if they passed the said Jdthe God guided him from the gas was rational

When he saw quite a bit apostates men and the fate of their peers and the inability for steadfastness despite immunity redoubt Oblivious to burn their hideouts and demolish their homes

The Almighty said: ((is the one who took out those who disbelieve from the People of the Book from their homes for the first Hashr what you thought to get out and they thought they Manathm redoubt of God gave them God in terms of not calculate your and tossed in the hearts of horror destroying their homes with their own hands and the hands of the believers and they took my initial sight) "[Sura Hashr - Verse 2].

Magnify the Mujahideen entered the camp and conquerors and enemies dead or homeless, and so was the grace of God alone to control the camp and neighbored by the Heat of the barracks, as well as tighter control on the road link between the Heat and al-Baghdadi and Ahave of villages, and Praise be to Allah.


WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 02:22pm PT
On the battlefield of ISIS the fool Americans are babbling about Bush Palin Cruz Hillary Romney Mcfool etc.etc.etc.

All while drooling and doing the exact opposite they say .......
WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 02:53pm PT
The Putinator made Obummer and the idiot Kerry look really bad several times.

They're no match against the Putinator who outclassed them several times and prevented WWIII.

The stupid American politards will cry foul like little girls and be all butt hurt.

But as usual the American media lies like hell to keep the American sheep in the corral of their slaughterhouse.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
It's always going to be Obama's fault...

Even when there is absolute proof that it isn't...


When dealing with that type of mentality there is no way to win...

EVERYBODY told Obama to keep the troops in Iraq. He could have, but he refused to try.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
Even Panetta wanted the troops to stay there!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/leon-panetta-criticizes-obama-for-iraq-withdrawal/

Locker, when I'm wrong I will admit it freely.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 13, 2014 - 05:47pm PT
It's never too late dude. This guy had sack. His kit was probably prehistoric
compared to the Peshmerga's:


http://www.rferl.org/content/mark-paslawsky/26541831.html


rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 13, 2014 - 05:53pm PT
I suppose the other alternative is another military build up in iraq by the US but what's that going to do to our economy..?
Binks

climber
Uranus
Oct 13, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
I don't care what they do over there. I don't want to spend a dime for it or have a single soldier involved.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 06:09pm PT
Sure he wanted them to stay there, he also wanted a billion dollars
That was his opinion, he just omits that it was Bush's SOFA
so it wasn't Obama's fault that the troops are gone

why?
Money, they filter out the good things about Obama

It was the Military Leaders that would not agree to keep troops in Iraq after 2011
google that.

You google it. Have fun. Everybody wanted to keep troops there except Obama. Yeah, Bush's SOFA expired in 2011, but against their will, Obama defied his generals to not extend it.

McCain wanted to keep troops in Iraq for 100 years....
I wonder how much that would cost?

Cost? Not that much compared to dropping SAT-guided missiles everyday. We still have troops in Germany and Japan BTW...maybe ole' John is not too far off.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 13, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
ISIS attack strategy is similar to the German blitkreig...Artillery , suicice bombers , followed by infantry...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 06:54pm PT
RJ, the unique difference is the suicide bombers and the abuse of civilians.

The Nazis were very careful to hide their atrocities. ISIS publishes them proudly.

This is why they need to be dealt with accordingly. No f*#king mercy.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:01pm PT
That's true, as long as you don't place any value on the lives of our troops.

So, yeah - it's true in your world.

That's not what I said. Exactlty..

We should have left dudes at Baghram, 15 large!

Now? It's too hard to tell without the right intel. It's f*#ked.
bergbryce

climber
East Bay, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:02pm PT
Let the Middle Eastern countries do it, starting primarily with Saudi Arabia. They've got so much money, they wipe their asses with cash. Have them and other ME nations hire some mercenaries who want to be there to fight. No more poor American men and women being sent in, in a vain attempt to stabilize an inherently unstable region. That's bull$hit, ancient foreign policy and I don't support it.

The US can provide intelligence and very limited special forces support, but no full blown ground invasion or anything close to it.

Part of (insert Islamic terrorist organization of the month here)'s strategy is and always will be to keep the US involved. Putting boots on the ground is exactly what they want. They seem them only as live targets. We're out, we need to stay the hell out.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:07pm PT
I don't disagree, Berg.....
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
Because,secretly, they approve of the islamic state and hope to do business with them once they're established. They love lopping off heads just as much as IS does.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:52pm PT
Y'all are bagging on Saudi Arabia? They might spend a lot but it is mostly on toys.
The Turks are yer boys for this job cause they can put boots on the ground and at one
time they did know how to fight. They're probably too pussified now that they aren't all
starving.
crankster

Trad climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 07:59pm PT
Obama was elected on the promise to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home. The American public had spoken.
Paneta is wrong. He thinks the prez is too cautious. I'm glad he's cautious.

Bush wasn't.
Cheney wasn't.
Rumsfeldt wasn't.
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:03pm PT
It's not like we left Iraq high and dry, we left them with a heavily armed trained force. It's not our fault they chose to abandon the fight.

I think we shouldn't have gotten sucked into this mess again and let the chips fall where they may. Let Allah sort it out. Our being there just gives them more reasons to hate us.
crankster

Trad climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 09:30pm PT
Face it, this is mostly a political problem and mostly out of our control.

"All he had to do" is the statement of a complete fool.
"We go kill everyone" is the statment of a complete lunatic.

What johnboy says make sense.
And this by the dr.

The Military Leaders did want to keep troops in Iraq after 2011 because the SOFA would not grant them immunity.

Since they would not immunity from any criminal actions, the Generals had NO CHOICE EXCEPT to Want to take the troops out.

NO one cares about some dumb asses opinion if they SHOULD have left in troops or not.
the military leaders agreed that they had to take the troops out considering the circumstances of the agreement BUSH SIGNED.
WBraun

climber
Oct 13, 2014 - 10:00pm PT
IRS/CIA swiss BANKS Fund ISIL and the U.N
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 09:02am PT
Yeah, it's all just a pretend CIA game. You wouldn't be barking this crap if you had to face these f*#king cavemen.
You'd be begging for Marines and Army Rangers and Air Force bombers...



40 nation coalition sitting on their hands while these animals play their caliphate game.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/world/meast/isis-justification-slavery/index.html?hpt=wo_c2





Real soldiers, with a real government and a real nation behind them.










For all its many faults, I believe in the United States of America.
WBraun

climber
Oct 14, 2014 - 09:32am PT
40 nation coalition sitting on their hands while these animals play their caliphate game.

I told you the US, Israel, Britain is supporting them along with the rest.

If they weren't supporting them then the rest would do something.

You're watching CNN which is the main media outlet of the CIA (Criminals In Action).

They consistently put up sh!t like this to keep you distracted.

You're falling for the psyops.

You just don't get it .......
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 09:54am PT
While you stand on the corner waving your conspiracy sign and shitting in your other hand, I'll stand with the men pictured above.
WBraun

climber
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:02am PT
It's got nothing to do with those men in your photo Bruce.

ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:11am PT
the chief, you need f*#king therapy. Better yet, a padded cell.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:14am PT
I know Werner. I worry about corporations and the MIC, and many other things. But when push comes to shove, we sometimes have to take a stand. I don't want weak people rolled over, but nor do I want ISIS to control the middle east.

Are you standing for what you believe in? Aren't you employed by the federal government?

Sorry, I just don't believe all the conspiracy bs. I've never seen one be proven true in my lifetime.
WBraun

climber
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:18am PT
Read Scott Bennett's account.

SHELL GAME:
The Betrayal and Cover-Up by the U.S. Government of the
Union Bank of Switzerland-Terrorist Threat Finance Connection
To Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Central Command

A Whistleblowing Report to the United States Congress

Submitted by Scott Bennett, 2LT, United States Army (Reserve)
11th Psychological Operations Battalion
To The Department of Defense Inspector General
Chewybacca

Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:56am PT
^ Get your tickets to the battle of the trolls. ^ Limited supplies, get your tickets now!
lol


Oh, I forgot.....Be afraid, Be VERY Afraid!!!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:11am PT
Dear tioga, lots and lots of isis dudes need killing. Many great Americans agree on this.

You're obviously on the isis harmless bus. You should go join them immediately. See how well you fit in.
ncrockclimber

climber
The Desert Oven
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:15am PT
the chief said:
Does that mean yur coming down here to my neck of the desert, Tioga?

9mm Para or 12g Slug 1695 FPS Rem do?

so, are you threatening another forum member with a gun?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:16am PT
Tioga's great uncle was Neville Chamberlain.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:23am PT
lots and lots of isis dudes need killing. Many great Americans agree on this.

Patience grasshopper.

We went in, the last time, without fully understanding who the enemy was. In the end, the entire Islamic World was shooting at us. There are multiple parties there, all fighting with each other. In the end, one or two of them will emerge bloodied and victorious and then it will be our turn to flush the bowl.

Meanwhile, we need new legislation here in the US. That allows us, to not only deal with "home grown" terrorists but also deport their entire extended family, that put that sh#t into their head.

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:23am PT
so, are you threatening another forum member with a gun?

C'mon ncrock, surely you can tell smack talk when you see it?
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:44am PT
you guys should read some of tioga's stock advice!!
tioga=joke
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 14, 2014 - 11:55am PT
Meanwhile, we need new legislation here in the US. That allows us, to not only deal with "home grown" terrorists but also deport their entire extended family, that put that sh#t into their head.

Yer dreamin'

We've got an administration that gives a disease civil rights and allows its import.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 12:07pm PT
tgt=tioga




PS, Werner, are you employed by the federal government or not?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Oct 14, 2014 - 06:48pm PT
Part I: Leave it to ISIS to showcase Islam, lol!

Part II: Leave it to Islam to showcase Christianity, lol!

Growing pains, people, welcome to the 21st century. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo7z2Ml2tI0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_oTeMpHMw&l

It's ovah for jehovah.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1118298/Its-Ovah-for-Jehovah

Sorry, blue.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 14, 2014 - 06:58pm PT
Meanwhile, we need new legislation here in the US. That allows us, to not only deal with "home grown" terrorists but also deport their entire extended family, that put that sh#t into their head.

It's not even really the families, but the mosques. It doesn't take a genius or detective to determine that the brain-washing of this murderous ideology occurs at Mosques.

Yes, it's time to put listening equipment in mosques. What would they have to hide?

This is being done to Christians, BTW.
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/houstons-totalitarian-dem-leaders-demand-pastors-turn-over-sermons-so-they-can-see-if-they-opposed-transgender-bathroom-law/

Looks like Dutch bikers are joining up in the fight against IS in Iraq; http://patdollard.com/2014/10/netherlands-allows-biker-gangs-to-fight-isis/

rad...

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 14, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
Nothing more frightening than a drunk Dutchman and bag of greasy frites...
ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Oct 14, 2014 - 09:48pm PT
PS, Werner, are you employed by the federal government or not?


He's with psy-ops working with black-ops. So, kinda but maybe not really.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:06pm PT
I have always liked Werner, and will stick with him in almost any situation.

But if our government is as evil as he thinks they are, then he should quit taking their/our money!
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:13pm PT
Werner is mole planted by Putin to convert all climbers into enemies of the USA government.

Right now he's only trying at a 5.3 level,
but we all know what he is capable of.
thebravecowboy

climber
hold on tight boys
Oct 14, 2014 - 10:37pm PT
I feel that this is a pertinent time to mention the possibility of unknown unknowns, as well as unknown knowns.

Ulterior motives cannot be denied in the calculations of war. Realism should be real-er, nawmean?
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 15, 2014 - 12:02am PT
Love Rummy

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Explains why the Bush administration couldn't catch Bin Laden.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 15, 2014 - 03:20am PT
Bloody 'ell, if Heathrow isn't chuck full of terrorists and Ebola carriers!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 15, 2014 - 03:28am PT
I don't think you actually know anything about ISIS other than whatever media lies you had heard.


I think you're a pompous dickhead, that's what I think.

I lived in the Middle East for 4 years. I know more about Arabs and Muslims than you can possibly imagine.

Smart ass.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 15, 2014 - 06:53am PT
It's tioga


survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 15, 2014 - 08:00am PT
We're watching you nwo.

Your time draws near.

You will be in the first cull.

You see too much.

We are coming for you.



survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 15, 2014 - 10:41am PT
Yawn. If you have no fear then why are you babbling about world conspiracy?

No, I don't think we'll wait thru winter.

Convert or die infidel.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 15, 2014 - 12:55pm PT
Can you just wait till after this winter? Methinks it to be a bonus snow/ski season.

Izzat right? We were thinking Tahoe again this year, but the Long Range sez low snow. Seems the only place that's really dependable, is SLC.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Oct 15, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
Media lies? You mean the beheadings and mass killings are just TV propaganda?

Enlighten us.

I'd love to know what motivates their "kill 'em all, let Allah sort it out" mentality.

The recent ISIS videos are PURE propaganda intended to inflame the sheep watching the MSM drivel into supporting an attack on scary brown people in Syria. It's a stepping stone to remove Assad. Remember last summer when these same ISIS proxy-criminals gassed civilians in Syria and we tried to spin it and pin it on Assad? Didn't work. Well these sociopaths in our government do not quit. The Obama-puppet is simply along for the ride.

ISIS is certainly composed of some crazy people but they're entirely funded, trained, and directed by US and Israeli interests.

It's common sense. If you were an "Islamic Caliphate" intending on establishing an Islamic State in Iraq/Syria would you simultaneously poke every major Western power in the eyes at the same time while blitzkreiging across the desert destroying everything in your wake? It's cartoonish and isn't true.

And not a harsh word or shot fired at Israel, who is, right now, killing real Muslims every day. Strange that fact eh?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Oct 15, 2014 - 06:54pm PT
supporting an attack on scary brown people in Syria. It's a stepping stone to remove Assad. Remember last summer when these same ISIS proxy-criminals gassed civilians in Syria and we tried to spin it and pin it on Assad? Didn't work. Well these sociopaths in our government do not quit. The Obama-puppet is simply along for the ride.

ISIS is certainly composed of some crazy people but they're entirely funded, trained, and directed by US and Israeli interests.

Possible, for sure. But there are bigger dynamics involved. Sunnis/Shites, Turks/Syrians, Good Kurds/Bad Kurds. Iranians, Saudis...

A shitstorm!!!!
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 15, 2014 - 07:04pm PT
The US has no idea the true ramifications of what it has wrought, past and present administrations included. If it was some kind of letting-the-genie-out-of-the-bottle plan, it has seriously misfired.
WBraun

climber
Oct 15, 2014 - 07:57pm PT
This is what politards do.

They put this kind of stupid sh!t together.

Politards, they're in both parties posing as so called experts getting everyone killed in their stupid paths.

Including the stupid retarded politards on the this forum all point their stupid fingers at everyone else except themselves .......
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Oct 20, 2014 - 07:41pm PT
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Oct 20, 2014 - 08:01pm PT
Cool! I love chicks with weapons.

Karen

Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
Oct 21, 2014 - 07:35am PT
I'd like to see those Isis sh*t heads have a dig a huge ditch then see them mowed down. They are evil and deserve a bitter end.
graniteclimber

Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
Oct 22, 2014 - 08:02am PT
ISIS's claim that they will raise their flag over the White House--that just stopped being funny.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 22, 2014 - 08:09am PT
Was it ever funny? With 10 million or so Muslims here, and an exponential birthrate, could happen.
crankster

Trad climber
Oct 22, 2014 - 09:50am PT

Oct 15, 2014 - 07:57pm PT
This is what politards do.

They put this kind of stupid sh!t together.

Politards, they're in both parties posing as so called experts getting everyone killed in their stupid paths.

Including the stupid retarded politards on the this forum all point their stupid fingers at everyone else except themselves .......

Yawn...
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 22, 2014 - 10:44am PT
We should kill them all.

And then build some really bitchin' ovens to burn 'em up in.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Oct 22, 2014 - 11:00am PT
Some suggest reviving the old tried and true preventive method of 'if they kill one of ours we kill 1000 of them. Oh wait. We are doing that
already to ISIS with JDAM'S in Syria.

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 22, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Oct 22, 2014 - 12:32pm PT
Well I guess them trying to fly their flag over the Canadian Parliment today was insane too.

Meanwhile, the guy that ran over two Quebec Policemen Tuesday, had had his passport revoked. Cuz he'd wanted to leave and join ISIS. That worked out real well for them.

We'll see how bringing back those three young women turns out for us.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:19pm PT
The US just dropped some more arms to ISIS just outside Kobane.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

WBraun

climber
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
All that ordinance dropped for 3 or 4 guys.

Americans are stooopid and phoney .....
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:34pm PT
You can't see what was on the other side of the hill.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1139654/a-spirit-like-salahuddins-how-kurdish-muslims-downed-isis
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:37pm PT
My peacenik self goes out the window when I see that.

Love letter from America, to ISIS.




[Click to View YouTube Video]
WBraun

climber
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:38pm PT
TGT and you can.

TGT you and me, lets go look on the other side :-)

Where's our hummer to go find these bummers ......
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:43pm PT
The reverse slope of that hill was where they had their football field size flag laid out and were staging for an assault on the people in the foreground.

WBraun

climber
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
OK ok ok

I believe ya ....
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
Jihadi last note to self:

Football field size black flags attract unwanted attention.

Kurd FAC

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 23, 2014 - 06:40pm PT
Survival...Thanks ..I love that Movie..Watch it every night before i bathe...
graniteclimber

Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
Oct 23, 2014 - 08:48pm PT
This is where we are right now.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Start at 38 secs.
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Nov 1, 2014 - 01:35pm PT
So, ISIS claims the 200 kidnapped school girls have been converted to Islam and married off. It makes me sick.
WBraun

climber
Nov 1, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
We the USA give Israel billions every year and all while they run ISIL.

Where is the outrage?

None????

Stupid Americans .....
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Nov 1, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
Werner- pardon my ignorance; who runs ISIL/ISIS?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 1, 2014 - 02:17pm PT
In the Congo, they just invite them over for dinner.

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0IK1RQ20141031?sp=true
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Nov 1, 2014 - 04:58pm PT
Why should I spend a year doing research when you already know the answer? Maybe that will help me put the pieces together.
Bargainhunter

climber
Nov 1, 2014 - 08:52pm PT
I found this NY Review of Books article provided some nice background. It's from September, 2014.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/iraq-outlaw-state/
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 08:21am PT
The Kurds in Kobane just got some reinforcements from their Iraqi brothers. And from some Western fighters.

http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=11/02/2014&SO=&HC=1&ID=403332
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 2, 2014 - 08:53am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
WBraun

climber
Nov 2, 2014 - 08:57am PT
YOU are ISIS

Yes YOU

You created it.

You rebelled against your own self.

Now you suffer the repeated material cycles of birth death disease and old age .....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 2, 2014 - 09:04am PT
People who believe in invisible sky wizards created isis.


[Click to View YouTube Video]
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 09:34am PT
YOU are ISIS

Yes YOU

You created it.

You rebelled against your own self.

Now you suffer the repeated material cycles of birth death disease and old age .....

Let me explain where I think you're right, but also wrong and overly critical. Let's do some homework, shall? How did things come to this?

Bush#1 had the right idea IMO. Kill the enemy's ability to fight war, but leave the dictator in charge to control a somewhat savage people.

Bush#2 killed the dictator with the neo-con dream of building a friendly democracy. Savages and tribal people will kill each other in a democracy without a strong-armed dictator or 'alpha-male'.

Yes, we did start the problems, but what were we supposed to do?

I'll continue in a bit....


Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 09:55am PT
This ain't suffering. This is awesome.

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 10:13am PT
After the shitstorm in Afghanistan and Iraq under Bush#2, somebody decided it was their mission to run campaigns on ending wars, which sounds really nice, especially to peaceniks. Fine.

So we start pulling out of Afghanistan and almost completely leave Iraq.

Enter the Arab Spring....what made a bunch of Egyptians think they could have an honest election?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 2, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2014/10/31/one-in-seven-young-britons-has-sympathy-with-isis-cause/
Psilocyborg

climber
Nov 2, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity is being used by godless people in control to further their own personal agendas on the world stage.
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 02:13pm PT
Oh, they've got god. It's their commonality.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
Let me tie this all together. We did almost nothing in the Iranian peoples uprising, but we actually instigated the Egyptian overthrow of Mubarak.

He held that country together for decades in peace.

Next we oversaw the overthrow of Ghaddafi, another dictator that managed a semblance of peace. Libya is in chaos now, and remember Benghazi.

Tunisia and Algeria escaped these gov't coups. They held.

So all the radicals from Egypt and North AFrica congregated in Syria with the weapons from all of those conflicts.

The Kurds and Israelis are the only hope there.
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Nov 2, 2014 - 04:19pm PT
Ok. So US intervention has pissied off the radical groups. So they slaughter their own people as the Taliban has done before? Is the world just to sit back and let it happen?

I'm sick of the US being the world's police. The Arab nations should deal with this but they don't. Maybe we should just walk away.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 04:51pm PT
I'm sick of the US being the world's police. The Arab nations should deal with this but they don't. Maybe we should just walk away.


We, and the Muslim culture, are at a crossroads that people like the Israelis have dealt with for years.

Some muslims need to be shot dead on sight. We know who they are. Kill them.
Karen

Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:14pm PT
bluering, I agree those fanatics need to be shot dead.
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:15pm PT
My point is that Werner feels we have created the Taliban and ISIS/ISIL. So we walk away and it will be all kumbaya, As people are being slaughtered. Werner blames this on the stupid Americans but offers no solution other than to call us stupid.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:22pm PT
The death cult of the child molesting warlord created ISIS.

The Saudi's and the other oil sheikdoms, the primary enablers

Frack 'em out of business!

bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
The only problem in the ME is Sunni and Shia. Let them all kill themselves, but we can help out a bit also....

EDIT:
Steve the chickenshit has Karen the LA racist agreeing on indiscriminate killing

I'm a chickenshit now? And when did I call for "indiscriminate killing"?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/15000-foreigners-80-countries-fight-isis-iraq-syria-says-united-nations/

Anyone calling out Islamonazis is a racist?
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:37pm PT
There's nothing wrong with killing people, so long as the right people get killed.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:43pm PT
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Nov 2, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
This is for Mr Brennan:



"Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent"

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/gift.html

"Therefore, from this day forward Americans of European ancestry can stand straight and proud knowing they are without guilt and thus obliged not to act like damn fools in their relationships with Americans of African ancestry."
WBraun

climber
Nov 2, 2014 - 06:57pm PT
Obama can't do jack sh!t.

He's supposed to be the criminals puppet.

Lately he's been getting uppity towards his masters.

His master just recently threatened him with assassination hints.

You crazy Americans keep electing puppets.

First you have to get rid of all the criminals before you can even think of having a decent govt without endless hell on earth ......
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 2, 2014 - 07:06pm PT
Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.

George Orwell
crankster

Trad climber
Nov 2, 2014 - 07:41pm PT
This thread shows little intelligent signs of life.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Nov 2, 2014 - 08:04pm PT
Werner, you're so smart living off the "Man" ...
Don't give him grief - he has to clean up after the horses/ mules in the NPS stables, and feed the detainees in the LEO jail every day for the privilege of living in a metal storage container provided by "the man".
He only rescues idiots in his spare time, for the pure f*#k of it.
WBraun

climber
Nov 2, 2014 - 08:48pm PT
Every single living entity on the whole planet lives off the man ......
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 3, 2014 - 03:04pm PT
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/religious-leader-shot-outside-islamic-centre-in-greenacre-following-threats-20141103-11g0kx.html
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 5, 2014 - 06:32pm PT
This all goes back to Fatty's Clash of Civilizations threads that he, I, and others were derided for.

The worst atrocities occur in the Central portions of Africa. Central African Republic, Congo, Nigeria, Mali, etc...

Look at the maps of the slaughter;

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zOLXrofb8vss.knNUre6wk3Hc&authuser=0&hl=en

The map is mine own and all links are clickable with links attached for details. Yellow is terrorism, blue is counter-assault, red/purple thumbtacks are US drone-strikes. (This is just Africa, I have others for Yemen, Pakistan, Iran/Iraq, and The Irsael/Syria/Lebabnon front. And the Russian/Caucasus front).

They now occur on new fronts in Libya and Syria and Iraq as a result of inattention to a robust, prolonged support for helping those countries destabilize radicalism.

We left them helpless after we stirred up the 'nest'.

As for ISIS, they are no less ruthless. They execute civilians, even Muslims, on sight and conduct atrocities that I would not even post here.

Over 150 men, WOMEN, and CHILDREN executed by ISIS for being in the wrong tribe that did not support them.

http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/654191

Shot dead, on sight.

I'm a chicken-hawk for saying that we should support Iraqis in quelling this thing? So be it.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 5, 2014 - 06:47pm PT
Did they wrap him in bacon first?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 5, 2014 - 07:02pm PT
I could provide a long list of the attrocities of these Muslim radicals but I won't because the links are included in my awesome maps that were started in 2004 and document quite a bit.

The Afghan maps are divided into 5 different regions, as are the Pakistani maps. Just too much sh#t going on to keep it on one map.

Some regional areas of Pakistan I had to divide into two (North Waziristan) because there was just too much stuff going on.

Mostly because the Eastern Afghan border rested right next to North/South Waziristan Pakistan.

See here..

Eastern Afganistan;

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zOLXrofb8vss.k5_nW3SPuHb8&authuser=0&hl=en

North Wariristan, Pakistan (west - Datta Khel area);

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zOLXrofb8vss.kvSKmHSUvqiI&authuser=0&hl=en

Look at all the thumb-tacks (drone strikes).

Click on any one for details. Some have multiples of activities.

The Pakistanis started trying to clear the area of militants in South Waziristan back in 2008, and they fled mostly to N. Waziristan.

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zOLXrofb8vss.kEn5v83Uv10Y&authuser=0&hl=en
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 5, 2014 - 07:58pm PT
No one gave a moment's notice other than lip service about the 10 years civil war in the various Balkan states. Many intramural scores ethnic and religious were settle through mass killings. There was no petroleum (why you care) involved, so it was ignored until Clinton did the rare thing by acting to stop a war that had no self interest at stake for the USA.

The Bosnian conflict was indeed an ethnic war, the Serbs defending against terrorist attacks from "ethnic" Albanians. Why did they call them "ethnic" Albanians? What was their ethnicity? You know the answer.

Why was the conflict important to us? The same reason the Ukrainian conflict is being fought. Oil and natural gas pipelines to Europe. It wasn't our interest really but the gloablists, and Bill was all on board with that with that hag Madelaine Albright.

Does this sound familiar currently if you disregard the true prize which is the natural resource ?


We don't need anybody's oil/gas anymore. What are you trying to say?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 5, 2014 - 08:09pm PT
Look, the current Mid-East crisis (Afghan theater is different, more Persian), was under relative control when Bush left.

Sure, Iraq was stable with a contingent of about 20,000 troops and airfield support to back up the blossoming Iraqi army. The crazies did quite little in Iraq.

Eqypt was in a talking relationship with Israel and even helping Israelis defend the Sinai border from smuggling and extremists, and tunnel-digging.

The Libyans gave up their weapons program and warned the US to not destabilize the gov't for risk of militias taking over that Ghaddafi had controlled.

Syria was always a pain in the ass to Israel but knew their boundaries, that they'd get their asses kicked if they did overt attacks on Israel.

So what happened? Let me ask you what you think happened, because I KNOW what happened. I follow this stuff closely.
WBraun

climber
Nov 5, 2014 - 08:10pm PT
We don't need anybody's oil/gas anymore. What are you trying to say?

There's only one guy that makes oil.

Actually there's only guy that makes everything in the whole cosmic manifestation.

If you don't want his stuff anymore you'll be dead in an instant ......



bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 5, 2014 - 09:34pm PT
So it's now into overtime with the resource again up for grabs. Use your head, not your emotions.


I think you're confused that I have no emotion for the innocent. The ISIS executions cannot stand.

We have to ask ourselves if we'll be the ones to halt it. Do we have the will?

Or maybe just let it go, not our problem?
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Nov 6, 2014 - 10:39am PT
Depends where you look. I saw a good NYT analysis of the current situation. Militarily, they're basically stalled. They can hold onto the Sunni areas of Syria and Iraq, but their forward progress elsewhere is slow.

I think the real legacy of ISIS, is gonna be to drastically elevate the level of tolerance to the unthinkable. Having grown up in the "Never Again" generation, suddenly, genocide, mass executions, abduction and sale of hundreds of women and girls, isn't even news.

Even the forced exodus of the Myanmar Muslims, which normally would have the UN up in arms, is a yawner. Not a good time to be Islamic.

http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/655896

HLUT, Myanmar: The small wooden boats leave the shores of western Myanmar nearly every day, overloaded with desperate Rohingya Muslims who are part of one the largest boat exoduses in Asia since the Vietnam War.
Helping them on their way: Myanmar’s own security forces, who are profiting off the mass departure of one of the world’s most persecuted minorities by extracting payments from those fleeing
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Nov 6, 2014 - 12:39pm PT
Toldja:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/world/middleeast/isis-wave-of-might-is-turning-into-ripple.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

So much for ISIS pouring across our borders.
crankster

Trad climber
Nov 6, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
Yeah, and the ebola epidemic Cross that off the Republican wish list.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 6, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
Ya know, a month in Italy and I never once saw or heard jack about ISIS?
Granted, I had better things to do most of the time but apparently those
Eyetalians do too.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Nov 6, 2014 - 02:46pm PT
What shall we all freak out about next?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 6, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
I think we should be involved in this ISIS thing, but not deposing Assad. Where is the UN on all this also? Proves their futility.

For the sake of innocents getting executed in Iraq/Syria, we should be involved. ISIS is no threat to the US immediately, but don't we have a moral duty to help out?

We are the best suited to do this. At least until the Iraqis get their sh#t in order...Pulling our troops out was a bad idea.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Nov 6, 2014 - 05:24pm PT
kick ass, hard ass!
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 6, 2014 - 05:37pm PT
Heard an interview with the head of Blackwater on the Dennis Miller Show today.

Blackwater has a very bad rap. They do jobs that the US gov't cannot do, and they are staffed by very disciplined, professional SEALs and retired spec ops guys. These guys are like a private elite unit, with years of combat experience.

The Iraqis and Syrians should hire Blackwater to deal with some problems. Sending gov't troops gets messy politically.

Blackwater is very well armed, trained, and has over 70 support aircraft.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Nov 6, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
When did Pennis Miller stop being funny? After his knees started knocking post 911?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 6, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
Better yet, the Iraqis should hire the IDF, they're very cost effective.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 6, 2014 - 05:57pm PT
When did Pennis Miller stop being funny?


A long long long time ago. Unless you're Rush Scumbaugh, then he's your favorite dude ever.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 6, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
When did Pennis Miller stop being funny? After his knees started knocking post 911?


So now he's dick? Kinda like black conservatives and Hollweird conservatives? Once you come out of the closet you get thrown under the bus?

Do you realize how fascistic you guys sound? Persecuted for their beliefs?

You guys are really tolerant aren't ya?

Conservative=dick, progressive=enlightened?

I think the opposite is more accurate.

EDIT:
Better yet, the Iraqis should hire the IDF, they're very cost effective.

They can't do that, the PC world would be up in arms if more Jews started killing murderous Islamists.

(Don't tell anybody but the Mossad is prolly already there)
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 6, 2014 - 07:31pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Nov 6, 2014 - 08:16pm PT
Trench has a lot of room. They must be expecting to fill it.

Tvash

climber
Seattle
Nov 6, 2014 - 08:21pm PT
nah. lots of conservatives r cool peeps.

Conservatives aren't all dicks, but you are, Blue.

At some level, you already know that. No one lacks that much self awareness.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 9, 2014 - 09:23am PT
It's very weak to send combat troops into a hot shooting arena and telling them not to shoot anything. It's downright selfish of the prez to do this.

Either go all-in and start killing things, or don't put our guys in the crosshairs!

Who the f*#k made the decision to pull the 15000 troops out of Iraq less than a year ago? It wasn't the generals.

Not only is this president incompetent, but he's dangerous. And not to our enemies. To us.

EDIT:
Conservatives aren't all dicks, but you are, Blue.

I'm so offended.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Nov 9, 2014 - 09:39am PT
Blue...it was the American people that wanted the USA out of Iraq...it was costing the tax payers 8 billion a month and accelerating the national debt and we all remember how broke our country was..? right? Where's the fiscal conservatives when we start shipping our teenagers over seas to die.....This is what Obama campaigned on and he kept his promise...i agree with you on killing the bad guys but at what point does the USA stop playing world cops when it can't govern it's own borders..It seems like the repubs take the opposite tack on anything Obama proposes....First the Repubs wanted to keep troops in Iraq and now that he's putting 1,500 of our troops back in the Repubs are crying foul on keeping our troops out of Iraq.....? I'm not an Obama worshiper but when the repubs try to con the voters with their sudden policy changes it makes our political system look suspect...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 9, 2014 - 09:59am PT
RJ, when you expend the amount we did in Iraq, you don't play politics with it. That is all Obama did. For political reasons.

If there was anywhere, any conflict where we should leave a reinforced base for decades, it would be Iraq (maybe Afghanistan too).

You can argue whether we should be there in the first place, and that's a solid argument, but once you go you have to go all-in and commit to it.

The fiscal argument is a bit irrelevant. As a consequence of our indecisions to leave troops there, look where we are today. Spending more and more money dropping JDAMS and Hellfires on trucks.

Mission Accomplished?
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 9, 2014 - 10:19am PT
What's really bizarre is that one of the reasons to depose Saddam was to eliminate a local threat, and to create a Western-hospitable regime. A moderate regime that the world could deal with. That's the way I see it.

Iraq was also a local counter to Iran. Now that is almost completely lost. We are quite literally dealing with the devil now, and it pisses me off.

Iran was always a bigger threat to the world than Iraq. Iraq needed a smackdown for what they did to the Kurds in Halabja and the Saudis/Kuwaitis, but Iran needs a good nuking.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 9, 2014 - 10:27am PT
If there was anywhere, any conflict where we should leave a reinforced base for decades, it would be Iraq (maybe Afghanistan too).

You can argue whether we should be there in the first place, and that's a solid argument, but once you go you have to go all-in and commit to it.

My answer to the first statement is, 'Fort Apache'.
My answer to the second is that we never went 'all-in' because:
A. It's no longer PC to go 'all-in' these days and we're too limp-wristed.
B. We never had a clearly defined mission which, of course, makes it even
harder to go 'all-in'.
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Nov 9, 2014 - 10:42am PT
Reilly, you're right, of course. And even under Bush/Rumsfeld we had pussified, politically-correct Rules Of Engagement (ROE).

We should not engage in hostilities anymore if we're going to put illogical restrictions on our combat forces. We are THE most humane combat force in the world when the shooting starts, we do NOT need special rules that inhibit our forces from killing bad guys that we asked them to kill!

And I don't care if our guys piss on their dead bodies either. Just don't take a picture of it....leave it in the field.

We did much worse to Gerry and the Japs.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Nov 10, 2014 - 04:36pm PT
Listen up when Bluey uses his vast experience to pontificate on military matters.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Nov 16, 2014 - 07:47pm PT
http://news.yahoo.com/graphic-video-claims-us-aid-worker-beheaded-092630290.html
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Nov 17, 2014 - 11:38am PT
Rules Of Engagement (ROE).

didn't that have something to do with mothers against war?


those Kurdish women fighters are kicking ass!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 17, 2014 - 12:47pm PT
F*#k ISIS.

They've killed a lot more Muslims than they have Americans, but it's ok because they're the true Muslims. Just like various Christian sects are the true believers.

And yet werner will tell us that religion is not the problem.

This is NOT all America's fault. These groups were hating each other long before the USA started trying to suck oil out of there. So blaming it all on the USA is just part of your own personal propaganda shell game to justify whatever you believe.

StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Nov 17, 2014 - 12:51pm PT
We will never fix that area of the world militarily, but makes it convient to distract the American people as needed from the lack of progress on domestic issues.

We don't understand that all of the locals are using us for their own agenda, and they don't care how many American's die in the process.
WBraun

climber
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:07pm PT
But makes it convient to distract the American people as needed from the lack of progress on domestic issues.

The politarded idiots create these distractions to keep the survivals of America occupied and fixated away from what's really important.

They are masters of creating illusions for the masses to fall into to keep them under control.

Without controlling the masses there will be no masters.

The illusionary Democrazy system always has masters in the background.

There's no escape for the materially conditioned souls from their masters ......
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:16pm PT
keep the survivals of America occupied and fixated away from what's really important.

What is it that's really important Werner? Maybe you can tell me in a form that's understandable, rather than a double speak riddle within an enigma? Just make it plain English, c'mon bro.
WBraun

climber
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
Know thy self as you truely really are ......
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:19pm PT
I filled my gas tank with water and now my truck won't run...last time i listen to you braun...
WBraun

climber
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:25pm PT
Yes, you should never imitate.

Just as the fool who watched the vet hit the horse with a mallet into his throat to dislodge the stuck item in there.

The fool next thought that's all it takes to become a veterinarian.

Just hit anything with mallet and cured ......

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:32pm PT
i can show you where to milk a bull...it's quite easy,,,
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
Oh I do know myself as I truly am, very well.

Interesting that your true self will let people like ISIS do whatever they want, because you believe it's all being controlled by American puppet masters.

If you were in the teeth of ISIS you would feel differently about the American military. Sorry, but ISIS won't give you a pass because you believe in the gross material self and Hindu gods and reincarnation.
WBraun

climber
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:39pm PT
You're making sh!t up and projecting that bullsh!t onto me.

I don't support any such bullsh!t you're fabricating in your fertile mind.

You are being an idiot .....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 17, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
If you don't support it, then what would you do about it?
WBraun

climber
Nov 17, 2014 - 02:04pm PT
What do think I'm doing about all this?

Are you a fool?

You think you're only person around that has a tiny iota of clue whats going on?

You spend way to much time with your biased Military rah rah to do any serious research.

Just hit a few web sites and you "know".

Don't delude yourself so easily about what people really know ......
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 17, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
Thanks for the non-answer as to what the solution is.


Edit:
You spend way to much time with your biased Military rah rah to do any serious research.

I can only imagine the sites you visit for your serious research, heh....
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Nov 17, 2014 - 03:04pm PT
The first step is to realize the world is run by those with power and money who are sometimes at war with one another. Borders largely don't matter much, nor does religion although those things are used as tools to divide and conquer.

So when you hear about Americans vs. XYZ or Jews vs KKK, it's all nonsense marketing sh!t for us peons to believe in and rally in our prospective corners of the field with the rest of our wooly flock.

And the sad part is it works and will likely always work.

Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 17, 2014 - 06:34pm PT
I'm glad you're here, Moose.

Me, too. The Moose is a positive presence.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Nov 17, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
So are all the chicks..
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Nov 17, 2014 - 08:33pm PT
I can only imagine the sites you visit for your serious research, heh....
Lunker landed using trolling rig.
Degaine

climber
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:45am PT
The Chief wrote:
My POP came over with his direct family in 1936 at the age of ten, from Germany (a little town just SE of Berlin, Eichwalde). Lost half of the the family that remained during WWII.

My Mom lived through the Spanish Civil War in Puente Genil and Cordoba. Lost two of her four brothers and three Uncles.


They both stood firm in defending this nation in any way possible up till they both died three years ago. And regardless some of the faults within this Nation, they both stated repeatedly and emphatically throughout my life that it is the Greatest Nation on this planet. That too was up till their last breaths taken.

Nuff said.

Honestly sorry to read about your parents' respective families. I'm clearly a lot younger than you, so it's my grandparents / great grandparents whose families in Eastern Europe were slaughtered during WWII(my grandparents were able to make it to the US beforehand).

I alone have met hundreds of people with a similar story to yours and mine. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the US who could also write something similar.

That's the story (at least one of them) of the USA, people escaping tyranny and/or coming here in search of a better life.

I thought this was a free country where criticism is not only allowed but encouraged. When you wade through insults and ad hominem attacks on this site, regardless of political leanings, it appears to me that the criticism comes from wanting to make the US a better place. Didn't you spend a career fighting for that freedom, for that right?

Ironic then, don't you think, that you demand that Moose fall in line lockstep with your opinion and not dare criticize this country - is that mentality not the reason your family, mine, and that of so many others were slaughtered during the period leading up to and during WWII? Is that not the reason Moose and his family left Poland? To live in a country where one has the right to criticize?

It's one thing not to agree with his opinion, it's a whole other ball of wax to tell him in so many words to STFU and leave if he doesn't like it.

After all, we're not talking about tioga.
Degaine

climber
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:46am PT
The Chief wrote:
Carry on you whiner Liberal Utopian fantasy seeking freaks.

Pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? All you do in here day in and day out is whine.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 18, 2014 - 05:41am PT
Gun control works, for tyrannical govts..

Good point! Because of that gun control the Poles are still a puppet state of the Soviet Union.

Oh, wait...
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Nov 18, 2014 - 06:42am PT
~40 Americans were murdered throughout the US just yesterday...

THE HORROR!

The world is a big place. Policy dictating dropping tens of thousands of pounds of ordinance on foreign lands should not be driven by the murder of Americans who choose to be in foreign locations.

9/11... like Pearl Harbor... did not give us the right to incinerate two civilian population centers with nuclear fire. But we did...

And although I'm not sure who's being 9/11, the entire episode reeks of something rotten. The official story makes no sense.
crankster

Trad climber
Nov 18, 2014 - 06:45am PT
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 18, 2014 - 07:20am PT
9/11... like Pearl Harbor... did not give us the right to incinerate two civilian population centers with nuclear fire. But we did...

I think you miss the point. It was the way the Japanese were conducting themselves across the entire Pacific, and the way they were treating many millions of civilians, that was the cause of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Of course it's way more complex than that, but the Japanese had no one but themselves to blame. Pearl Harbor drew us into the war, but didn't dictate the way the rest of the war was conducted.

Likewise, the official company line is skewed, as usual, in this case. But there seems to be little doubt in my mind that ISIS must be stopped. The depth of their evil far exceeds ours, in my mind.

War is a shitty business. Perhaps you've noticed.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Nov 18, 2014 - 08:27am PT
But there seems to be little doubt in my mind that ISIS must be stopped.

Perhaps. But killing ISIS and killing off extreme Islam, are two different things.

Politically, it's possible ISIS can be smothered relatively quickly by a coalition of Shia, various Sunni tribes and Western air power. Seems logical, at some point, cities grow weary of foreigners coming in telling them how to behave and enforcing it with Medieval punishments.

However it's impossible for the non-Islamic world to kill the ideology of Jihad. It's been going on for over a thousand years. The only hope toward reigning it in, is to allow the process to vent. Until if/when the Islamic World gets sick of it.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 18, 2014 - 08:59am PT
I agree John.

Killing ISIS is only a small part of radical Islam/Jihad. I totally agree that the Muslim world is the one who truly needs to come to grips with this.

They seem to be moving slowly toward that thinking. My experience with Arabs in particular is that they are shaking hands and kissing cheeks while stabbing each other in the back. The fact that Sunni countries are part of the new coalition is important.

In the meantime, ISIS needs to know that they must keep their pious evil little heads down......
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 18, 2014 - 09:55am PT
The only hope toward reigning it in, is to allow the process to vent. Until if/when the Islamic World gets sick of it.

The only way Islam will moderate its medieval practices is through
economic coopting. Middle class people gots no time for radicalism
cause they're too busy shopping and living large.
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Nov 18, 2014 - 12:51pm PT
Sorry to be OT, but since it came up...

9/11... like Pearl Harbor... did not give us the right to incinerate two civilian population centers with nuclear fire. But we did...

My Dad fought in Okinawa. After the Island was taken and they started building B-29 bases the training began for a mainland invasion of Japan. The losses both to our forces and the Japanese civilians would have been staggering. We would have firebombed every urban center on the island (by this time Japan was devoid of air cover.) We would have attacked every factory, power plant, railway and port facility. The Japanese army and even civilians would have fought viciously. We would, of course have prevailed anyway, but the cost in lives-civilian and military-would have far exceeded the results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I get it that the atomic bombings were essentially premeditated mass murder. The same is true on an even grander scale had we fought a mainland war to take Japan.

I often wonder what would have happened, since we had already completely crushed Japan's ability to fight anywhere in the Pacific, if we had just walked away from the whole thing after Okinawa. If we had demonstrated The Bomb, and kept about ten B-29 bases within striking distance would that have sufficed?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:02pm PT
The fire bombings killed far more people than the nukes did.

Survival, if we had done as you hypothesized we could have just let them starve
and heard the same opprobrium. You can't win when you're killing people, can you?
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
I often wonder what would have happened, since we had already completely crushed Japan's ability to fight anywhere in the Pacific, if we had just walked away from the whole thing after Okinawa. If we had demonstrated The Bomb, and kept about ten B-29 bases within striking distance would that have sufficed?

That's a very interesting thought, kris, and well worth pondering. Was that an option considered?

We'd already committed to unconditional surrender, maybe we didn't want to reverse course. Maybe the fighting had been so bitter that there was no longer room for anything but complete submission.

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
We "demonstrated" the A-bomb on Hiroshima, and it took a second one before the Japanese called it quits.
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
Maybe the fighting had been so bitter that there was no longer room for anything but complete submission.
I suspect that is the deal. We could also have wanted Japan to be ours before the Soviets got across northern China. Who knows.

Regarding ISIS and The Middle East generally.

This killing of Rabbis in Jerusalem could be a big deal. This was done by a younger generation who don't like what their seniors have left them. Yassir Arafat might as well be Martin Luther King. Who do these new players look up to? ISIS for one. This ideology which embraces Medievil killing with the blade could spread like a wildfire.

Slaughtering these Rabbis crosses a line, rings a bell which cannot be unrung. Until today busses, markets, airports and airplanes have been the preferred venues for terrorists. Now it has spread to religious places of prayer.

I'll bet the older generations of Palestinians are appalled by this act. And their fundraisers in Europe and abroad are less than pleased. I fear that Pandoras Box has been opened, the Arab world split by a schism of young and old. We know who will eventually win that one.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
I believe a demonstration was discussed, but it was decided the US had to crush their will to fight utterly and completely, or a lot more Americans would have died as the war ramped down. Unfortunately they massacred a lot of innocent people to do it.

There was still a lot of crazy things going down on the south pacific islands at the end of the war, even though it was clear to many Japanese they were going to lose. At the end of the day you still had to obey the Emperor.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 18, 2014 - 01:59pm PT
If we had demonstrated The Bomb, and kept about ten B-29 bases within striking distance would that have sufficed?


Somehow I don't think so. Neither did my Dad, uncles, relatives. The Japanese were all in for the holy war, so I guess we had to be also.


http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/media/2343-WARNING-EXECUTION-WWII-Japanese-Torture-Atrocities-Beheadings-Rape-Stabbing
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Nov 18, 2014 - 02:10pm PT
My Dad fought in Okinawa. After the Island was taken and they started building B-29 bases the training began for a mainland invasion of Japan. The losses both to our forces and the Japanese civilians would have been staggering. We would have firebombed every urban center on the island (by this time Japan was devoid of air cover.) We would have attacked every factory, power plant, railway and port facility. The Japanese army and even civilians would have fought viciously. We would, of course have prevailed anyway, but the cost in lives-civilian and military-would have far exceeded the results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

My Dad, was with yours. He believes the Atomic Bomb saved his life.

In fact, there was an invasion of Japan near Osaka. They were afraid of a trap. It took him and his unit a full day, the get the trucks out of the water, that had stalled with the fording gear.
Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Nov 18, 2014 - 02:15pm PT
If we had demonstrated The Bomb, and kept about ten B-29 bases within striking distance would that have sufficed?

why not?

certainly we had air superiority over the Japanese mainland and destroyed them in the Pacific

we could have held them "at bay" for decades conceivably with no ability to attack anyone, until
ultimately time and leadership replacement could have enabled submission and acceptance back into the international community

the horrors of torture and murder were ordered by Japan's leadership and not the average citizen
who went about their daily lives and occasionally read a newspaper with war news....

so isn't it fair to say our atomic bombing was really done purely to force Hirohito to surrender
so we could end the war by declaring victory quickly rather than option B, which would have been to mostly enforce a no fly zone around Japan's military for the then foreseeable future and thus avoid the "unnecessary" slaughter and misery caused by our atomic bombing?
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Nov 18, 2014 - 02:31pm PT
>>9/11... like Pearl Harbor... did not give us the right to incinerate two civilian population centers with nuclear fire. But we did...<<

I think you miss the point. It was the way the Japanese were conducting themselves across the entire Pacific, and the way they were treating many millions of civilians, that was the cause of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Of course it's way more complex than that, but the Japanese had no one but themselves to blame. Pearl Harbor drew us into the war, but didn't dictate the way the rest of the war was conducted.

Likewise, the official company line is skewed, as usual, in this case. But there seems to be little doubt in my mind that ISIS must be stopped. The depth of their evil far exceeds ours, in my mind.

War is a shitty business. Perhaps you've noticed.

Oh we all know the official company line on the Japanese nuking. How it "saved lives". Bollocks. With the genie out of the bottle our MIC wanted to try their new toys on fresh meat. There are a number of demonstrations we could have done without nuking civilian population centers..... twice.

Fact is the US was itching to get the conflict and in all likelihood allowed Pearl Harbor to happen. What better marketing material for us sheep to offer up our money and children.

Vietnam. Korea. WTF? Why?

You say war is a shitty business. The exact opposite is true, it's an excellent business. It is perhaps the best business for those selling death by the kiloton, often to both sides.

ISIS was created, trained, and armed by us and our evil cohorts in Israel and SA as a proxy army against Assad and eventually Iran.

Our country is not our own, it hasn't been for a long time. Our own MIC is the biggest threat to the world and has proven such time and time again. How easily we forget.

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Nov 18, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
well here's something relevant. ISIS zipping through an Iraqi Army installation with silenced pistols. Start at 1:15

warning -NSFW raw

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=949_1416344644
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Nov 18, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
This is interesting as well. ISIS can admit and accept failure.

https://www.facebook.com/a3maqnews
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 18, 2014 - 06:27pm PT
Republicans support NSA spying on citizens:
WASHINGTON--Legislation to keep most Americans' phone records out of government hands was defeated in the Senate on Tuesday, dooming at least for now prospects of national security reforms that supporters said would protect the privacy of law-abiding citizens.

A motion failed to get the necessary 60 votes needed to cut off debate on the bill sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), with most Republicans voting against. The final vote was 58 in favor to 42 against.

One of its most outspoken foes was incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who said stopping the National Security Agency from collecting telephone dialing records "would end one of our nation's critical capabilities to gather significant intelligence on terrorist threats."

I saw on the TV that Obama came out against the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. So, when does Ted Cruz come out in favor of them?
crankster

Trad climber
Nov 28, 2014 - 04:13pm PT
Obama failed again.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 28, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
The mosque was bombed for not being "islamic" enough.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 28, 2014 - 04:44pm PT
With those people only Armageddon is enough. We should oblige them.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 28, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name
(Inspired by a leitmotif on a certain News Feed)

by JLH

I heard a young girl lost her head,
Because her brother wished her dead.
She wanted to dance at her senior prom.
It was nothing at all to do with Islam.

A soldier guarding a monument died.
His existence offended the Prophet’s pride.
Infidel warriors can give him a fit,
But Islam has nothing to do with it.

Resistance is futile, says the Koran.
We will subject you, because we can.
You’ll live as a dhimmi and pay your due.
But with Islam this has nothing to do.

A follower of Freud and Mohammed both
Killed thirteen comrades, then, nothing loath,
Said: “Whenever a fellow like me just vents
It’s only some workplace violence,”

Trying to cut off his co-worker’s head
Was an un-Islamic act that led
This newly hatched convert to be shot several times,
But did not, alas, lead to Paradise.

This fine fellow took an axe
And gave some policemen forty whacks.
And when he saw what he had done,
Said: “It isn’t Islam. It’s all in fun.”

Give “Asians” an underage girl for a week,
Whether Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or Sikh,
And they’ll groom her into a prostitute.
But any connection to Islam is moot.

Kidnapped and raped and trying to survive,
Waiting for pedophile “husbands” to arrive,
All the girls taken by Boko Haram
Have absolutely nothing to do with Islam.

Female genital mutilation
Is a typical coming-of-age celebration.
Should blood loss or poisoning bring some harm
It would be inappropriate to blame Islam.

A kid likes to make his parents proud.
So one day he goes where kids are allowed
And blows up everyone there with a bomb,
But this has nothing to do with Islam.

If you are raped, you’ve committed a sin,
But killing your attacker is not a win.
You’re stoned for murder or adultery — they’ll choose,
It’s not Islam, it’s just lose-lose.

A book you write or what you say
Can get you censored or put away,
Or killed on the street without a qualm.
But of course it has nothing to do with Islam.

When all the “good” folks look away,
The “football hooligans” take up the fray.
They’re arrested because they got it right,
But blaming Islam just isn’t polite.

Beat Kurdish children with electric cables.
Kill as many infidels as you’re able,
Rape and maim in exultation.
It’s not Islam, it’s just recreation.

Hanging gays from industrial cranes
Is an exercise that is worth the pains.
No plea can save them, no friend, no mom.
They just have nothing to do with Islam.

An atrocity happened today, somewhere —
A little atrocity that wasn’t there.
Tomorrow will probably be the same.
I wish, I wish I knew its name.
crankster

Trad climber
Nov 28, 2014 - 06:53pm PT
ISIS was last month, along with ebola.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Dec 2, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
Turns out if you are Al Bagdadi's wife, shopping is dangerous.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Dec 2, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
I read, she'd already been captured before and exchanged.
crankster

Trad climber
Dec 2, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
What? I can't hear you...I'm too busy shouting about $2.37/gal. gas!
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Dec 2, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
ISIS was last month...

Not if you are a Christian living in northern Iraq, or a Kurd trapped between ISIS and Turkey.

Unless of course you think that lining up thousands of human beings, gunning them down while laughing and cheering, and then burying them is "so last month." You may have a short attention span, but I don't.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Dec 2, 2014 - 06:42pm PT
a recent (last few hours) ISIS photo TR

http://justpaste.it/we_sh_bag_02

crankster

Trad climber
Dec 2, 2014 - 06:48pm PT
Hyperbole, Ksolem. 2 months ago the righties wanted the president impeached because ISIS was going to steam across our southern border. I'm aware they haven't gone away.
WBraun

climber
Dec 2, 2014 - 07:08pm PT
The US, Britain, Israel is still covertly training ISIS all while being hypocrites against ISIS.

It's all a phoney front to ultimately topple Syria, Ukraine and then Iran.

These politarded leaders have no shame for their stupid genocide against humanity for their selfish aims ......

TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Dec 2, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
The third horseman arrives.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Dec-02/279579-water-borne-disease-plagues-isis-held-city-of-mosul.ashx
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Dec 2, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
The Armegeddon loons are about to get the bottoms knocked out of them..Stay tuned...
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 3, 2015 - 01:14pm PT
Well now the evil fools have burned the Jordanian pilot alive.















Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 3, 2015 - 01:26pm PT
What I don't get is why do we waste so much money training our guys at
China Lake and Nellis when we could just sent them to Incirlik and give
them live targets to practice on? Oh, I forgot, Obama is afraid one of our
guys would get captured? Maybe he hasn't heard of the USAF Pararescuers?
Bargainhunter

climber
Feb 3, 2015 - 01:30pm PT
Haha, that bozo firing his mounted 50 cal (listed 8 posts back on John Duffield's post) is about to have his belt feed jam in a few more rounds.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 3, 2015 - 01:32pm PT
^^ It looks an ejected round to me, but I'm sure his accuracy was like it
usually is over there. I'm surprised he wasn't holding it over his head
like they usually do with their AK's.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 3, 2015 - 02:17pm PT
a new ISIS TR

nasher.me/pic7-jhad9


TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 3, 2015 - 05:20pm PT
One of my enduring frustrations with the political left is their insistence that I must respect other cultures uncritically (but absolutely not appropriate from them those good qualities they may possess), and must always in every way criticize and condemn my own culture.

To do so is some sad form of mental illness. One can look upon the history of Western Judeo-Christian culture, particularly our own American culture, and see flaws and missteps, and yet still appreciate that it has been stupendously successful in establishing a society that is far more stable, safe, productive, and compassionate than any other culture in the history of the world.

The Left condemns the entirety of our culture, seeking to overthrow it in pursuit of a more perfect humanity. Somehow, even seeing events such as in the news today, through the lens of the shortcomings of our own culture, never once recognizing the agency of other cultures being flawed, disastrous, and fundamentally at odds with their own vision of a future of peace and harmony. No, whatever evil is visited upon the world beyond our borders must somehow be a direct result of some past (or current) action of our culture, our society.

This hideous act today, this barbarity- this is the normal state of man. The peace and prosperity we enjoy in America, and in like societies, they are the aberration that flies in the face of history. Our culture works. It builds civilizations. It cures diseases. It feeds the population. It provides safety and security to people far beyond the dreams of the majority of the world’s current population, let alone the humanity of the past.

We have before us such evidence, that our culture is the right, proper way, and yet we today as a society have no courage to proclaim our culture to be the best, to encourage others to join us in prosperity, contentment, peace, and liberty.

And lacking such courage, others step forward, and with the certainty that their culture is dominant, they bring forward misery, hate, death, subjugation, poverty and strife. But they do so with a certainty that they shall triumph over us. And so their cancer spreads.

It is to weep.

http://xbradtc.com/2015/02/03/when-bad-men-combine-uncivil-peasants/
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Feb 3, 2015 - 06:43pm PT
TGT.... thanks for posting this. And the link.

These ISIS dudes are like the SS..... and I hope that when we get them up close. It will be "shoot on sight."



WBraun

climber
Feb 3, 2015 - 07:11pm PT
ISIS is funded by USA.

John Kerry himself confirmed it.

You stoopid Americans are always 0wned so easily.

Because you're so busy looking at dense rocks .....
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Feb 3, 2015 - 07:32pm PT
Nah, it makes perfect sense for an up and coming "Islamic State" boogey man to assassinate as many people from as many world powers that it can all at once. 'Cause they're all evil and stuff with unlimited resources to take on the world. Oh... and they're muslim too. It's so scripted it's pathetic.

Poor pilot bastard who got burned though.... not a way to go... Although he wasn't dropping daisies.

Looks like they want to swing the Jordanian sheeple towards supporting moar war.

How to create a boogey man 101....
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 3, 2015 - 08:53pm PT
Yeah, fear, those ISIS thugs are just misunderstood freedom fighters who
just happen to enjoy imprisoning women and using them as sex slaves.
There's nothing wrong with that, right?
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Feb 3, 2015 - 08:59pm PT
Mr Braun writes:

"ISIS is funded by USA.
John Kerry himself confirmed it."


That doesn't mean they have to be ass-holes.

You're funded by USA. How come you're not an ass-hole?
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Feb 4, 2015 - 12:26am PT
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/21/nato-v-isis
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Feb 4, 2015 - 12:33am PT
One of my enduring frustrations with the political left....blah, blah, blah

The basis for this statement is completely wrong, obviously perverted by the political right to serve the right's bizarre agenda.

Aw, ISIS burned someone alive? Let's keep in mind that in this country the Christians took dozens and dozens of lives by burning them alive.

I am not condoning the behavior of ISIS or the Christians, just saying the barbarity and hypocrisy is there if you just turn away from the window and look in the mirror.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Feb 4, 2015 - 05:56am PT
These ISIS dudes are like the SS.....

Does that mean a Republican president will honor them by laying a wreath at their graves?

Does this mean a Republican politician will say that ISIS are victims, too?
"They [the SS] were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps."
-- Ronald Raygun
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 4, 2015 - 07:18am PT
If the prog obsession with drawing moral equivalency between a wreath at a war grave and burning people alive isn't evidence of intellectual and moral bankruptcy, what is?

Every mention of some evil in the world must be immediately self referenced no mater how absurd the mental gymnastics.

It's a dissatisfaction with their own culture bordering on a mental disorder.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 4, 2015 - 07:35am PT
I don't watch Fox, TGT, so am unfamiliar with this argument. I do know that the right has an obsession with semantics - obsessing over drivel like "the president won't call it the war on terror!!"

The president and our military leaders response to ISIS has been measured and appropriate. Don't shoot first and aim later, the Bush strategy. The right is anxious for another war, US boots on the ground...sending our young kids into another mideast quagmire.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 4, 2015 - 07:47am PT
Kos, he said ISIS was a "boogey man". I might be intellectually challenged but even I know
both how to spell bogeyman and define it and, trust me, ISIS is most assuredly not an
imaginary thing created to scare children and war-mongerers. However, disappointing as it
may be for you to read this I do not favor large numbers of boots on the ground. I would not
mind seeing more special ops teams with massive air support though.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 5, 2015 - 08:10am PT
Super slick production and graphics. Trying hard to look legitimate, as though they're not the skittering rats that they are.


Stand by for incoming boys.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 5, 2015 - 05:05pm PT
Oh yeah, the American public is really ready to send US ground forces into Iraq and Syria, too, huh? The president has been smart and resolute, not like the former president who shot first and asked questions later. He trusts his military advisers, the top brass, not rightwing pundits. Hillary Clinton will do the same when she is elected.

ISIS is trying to lure the US into another quagmire. Don't assist them.
Reuters | Washington
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
The United States and its allies staged 11 airstrikes near the Syrian city of Kobani, where Kurdish militia have been pushing back Islamic State forces, and also targeted the insurgent group with six strikes in Iraq, according to the Combined Joint Task Force.

The strikes near Kobane, conducted since early Tuesday morning local time, hit 10 ISIS tactical units, destroyed three staging positions and a fighting position, the task force said in a statement on Wednesday.

In Iraq, the strikes hit tactical units, a facility that made improvised explosive devices and checkpoints near the cities of Bayji, Tal Afar, al Asad, Rawa, al Huwayja and Mosul.
Tell the brave men that were involved in these missions that we are not doing anything.

Jordan struck ISIS coalition-approved targets today with US air support.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Feb 5, 2015 - 05:26pm PT
In sum, neither United States nor the international community should be surprised or shocked if the Islamic State further expanded its control of more territories in Syria and Iraq and moved to create chaos in Lebanon and Jordan. If the Islamic State’s history is any indication, then one should be concerned about it deepening political polarization and sectarianism in both Lebanon and Jordan, let alone trying to further its appeal by carrying out spectacular acts of violence in the Middle East or the West. The international community should internalize the fact that the Islamic State is theologically driven to apply Salafist ideology in belief and manifest action by way of jihad in the path of Allah against idolatrous regimes and unbelievers to expand “God’s realm” on earth. Each day the Islamic State goes unchecked, the harder it becomes to defeat it. Therefore, the international community, led by United States, should pursue all means at their disposal to curb the power and expansion of this jihadi group, irrespective of any regional and/or international concerted political effort, which at the moment, seems unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Robert G. Rabil is a professor of political science, July 17, 2014
Chugach

Trad climber
Vermont
Feb 5, 2015 - 07:02pm PT
Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency says Iraq and Syria will never return to modern historical boundaries. Jihadists are changing history.

http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60510282
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Feb 5, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
Any of these folks have families?



Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Feb 5, 2015 - 07:22pm PT
Per the duck troll's post:

Another eloquent example of what happens to your brain when you live your life with your head up your arse breathing methane.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Feb 5, 2015 - 08:43pm PT
I was living the American dream until someone told me it was an acute case of diahrea,,
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 5, 2015 - 09:21pm PT
ISIS Moms.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 5, 2015 - 09:33pm PT
Or maybe it's a bit more complicated...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/isis-murdered-kenji-goto

ISIS overplayed it's hand with the brutal murder of the Jordanian pilot. They were trying to scare Arabs from cooperating with the coalition. They miscalculated.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 06:38am PT
Righties can't wait to send YOUR kids into battle.

Cragman, get your facts straight. Starts with turning off Fox.

The fight against ISIS is also a hot topic in Washington, where President Obama reportedly plans to ask Congress to authorize the use of military force against the extremist group. The Associated Press notes that the president has been relying on Sept. 11-era authorizations, and that the process of getting new legislation won't be simple.

"His actions are going to be an important part of trying for us to get the votes to actually pass an authorization," House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday. "This is not going to be an easy lift.

And this is not "nothing"...
For the second straight day, Jordanian F-16 fighter jets conducted intensive airstrikes targeting ISIS in Syria, according to a U.S. official. They were accompanied by U.S. warplanes, including F/A-18s, F-22s and A-10 aircraft -- the latter being there ready to swoop down and help rescue a pilot, should his plane crash -- the official said.
Chugach

Trad climber
Vermont
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:44am PT
A full time professional army is both a beacon of democracy AND a war machine (you binary thinking simpletons).

There are plenty of peaceful democratic countries with full time professional armies who don't screw up the world like the US does, including Canada and probably half of Europe and S. America. These countries damn sure want their military to be war machines as a fully ready deterrent and protection force. There's nothing wrong with that. Until you hippies can change the nature of man, you'll want someone protecting you from the wolves.



survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:47am PT
No one forced them into a thing they did not decide to do on their own accord.


That's true the chief, but still and always, it's kids from poor families and neighborhoods that make up the majority of the enlisted ranks and the infantry.

The majority of them want some stability, some pay, some benefits. They're not chomping at the bit to go fight another ground war in the Middle East.
If they're told to do it, they'll go and do it honorably, as they always have. Ask one of them if he wants to die in Syria, as many surely would, and I bet I can tell you his answer.

Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia are the ones who should be putting armored brigades together.


[Click to View YouTube Video]
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:57am PT
No more GED's or waivers. And NO felony criminal record nor higher degree misdemeanor record that include any drug offenses.

That works well until we ramp up for another large ground war. As you well know, the ranks swell when there is a ground war, and then we cull the "baddies" out when the mission is over.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 09:37am PT
Bargainhunter

climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 10:28am PT
NPR headline this morning: "Jordan Strikes At ISIS; Obama Said To Be Preparing To Request War Powers"

This is a good thing! Let's ramp it up.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 10:48am PT
This should ring a bell for somebody...

"I never thought I'd see S??????l succumb to the fear machine."

lol
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 10:51am PT
Ron, the problem is that Buffs do too good a job against everyone, civilians included.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:11am PT
A coalition of 40 countries, thousands of airstrikes, millions of dollars, working hard to get regional Muslim countries to recognize their part in the tragedy, is hardly weakness.

All of this after two wars, lasting 14 years, three times as long as WWII, in that same region haven't fixed the problem.

Curious what President Dean would do to make the world safe for democracy.
Would you send your daughter to the front line? Why haven't you?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:11am PT
Cragman, apart from the barbarity...

I imagine you've got to be PISSED OFF these days - at Isis - for causing just as much if not more harm to Abrahamic stock - which of course includes Christianity - than any atheism or Catholic paedophilia.

A real test of faith no doubt.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:19am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:38am PT
Righties can't wait to send YOUR kids into battle.

I live in an upper middle class, conservative neighborhood that has lost far more than its per capita share of our sons in battle in Afghanistan and Iraq. Statements such as that above don't sit particularly well with the facts we've experienced.

It saddens me to read so many opinions shaped by dogma, so I might as well add mine to the list. In addition to my own political biases, I have two first cousins still living in Beirut (I used to have seven there, but most are now in France), and I had the privilege of being there when the area was still relatively prosperous and peaceful. I am also the son of one of the very few survivors of the Armenian massacres of 1915 still living, so my view of the history of the post-Ottoman-Empire near east is biased by quite a bit of personal family history.

I say all of this as a disclaimer; my views are not, and cannot be, objective. Every statement I make should include the words "In my opinion"so please understand that I am not claiming to set forth facts. I don't know them any more than most others.

That said, the American public and government both remain largely ignorant of near eastern facts, history, demography and undercurrents. When we studied the near east in Friendly Fresno in the early 1960's, we spent more time on Israel than on Turkey, Egypt, Syria (the two were the U.A.R. then), Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Yemen (then Aden), Kuwait and the Arab Emirates put together. The 1960 Encyclopaedia Brittanica World Atlas had a complete page on Israel, one on Turkey, and one on the entire area. It contained no single-country maps of most of the areas. Sad to say, that emphasis (or lack thereof) reflected the state of our knowledge.

Our intelligence in the area still stinks. I think when President Obama refereed to ISIS as the "junior varsity" his comments represented the failure of American intelligence to grasp the situation. This was a non-partisan failure, by the way. I don't blame the President for thinking what he did. He, and his past several predecessors, were acting based on huge gaps of knowledge.

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire made much ethnic, religious and sectarian conflicts and re-configuring inevitable. Ironically, the Ottoman Turks were some of the kindest conquerors ever in that region. Instead of annihilating or homogenizing the people it they conquered, they pacified them but largely allowed them to remain distinct and retain their languages and culture. Without the unifying force of the Sultan in Constantinople, all of those peoples felt a greater loyalty to their own group than to any central government or people. The term "Balkanization" really reflects what happened when the ethnic and religious mix of former Ottoman territory was released from Ottoman rule.

I think we're still seeing a lot of that same tribalism, if you will, playing out. That doesn't mean we have no role there, and it certainly doesn't mean we have no interest. IS does not, in my opinion, represent the future or the wish of most people in the region, but it fills a vacuum left by weak or corrupt central governments of artificial land boundaries. I, for one, hope that ISIS's cruelty to an Arab Muslim prisoner proves to be its undoing. In the meantime, I hope and pray that those with the military power to stop these pathologically cruel and murderous thugs will have the will to use that power.

John
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:39am PT
Start at the 3 minute mark if you don't want to watch the whole thing.



[Click to View YouTube Video]
dirtbag

climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:44am PT
Yes, we need more tough guys, because neoconservatism was such a huge success.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:47am PT
It's painful to watch at times. Not so much the implosion of Abrahamic religion under the pressures of modern civilization... as the defense of it by the last of its holdouts.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 11:53am PT
I get all the Fox nonsense elsewhere without reading Cragman's article. Suffice to say the rightwing is becoming bloodthirsty....without ONCE mentioning a plan of their own.

It's all the same...we shouldn't have pulled out of Iraq (gee, 12 years wasn't enough?), we should be doing SOMETHING else other than what the President is doing...we'll get around to telling you what that is later - a lot later.

What they want is another war. It soothes them about American power. They don't care if we shoot first and aim later - just start shooting!

Meanwhile, brave American pilots are flying missions against ISIS right NOW.

weakened our nation in the world's eyes
Utter nonsense. Rightwing media nonsense.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 6, 2015 - 12:36pm PT
How many woman and kids will those highly accurate BUFFs burn up?


If only Fatty was here, we could listen to him say "surgical" and "over the horizon."
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 6, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
Unless some of you 1%ers here own chunks of Defense stocks, why would you want to eliminate ISIS?

Imagine our President had a way to obliterate ISIS today, what would happen?

The Libs and apologists, would be in denial that it never happened. ISIS wasn't really that bad. It was given a bad rap by the Media. Fundy Islam, would emerge even stronger. With another bad guy at the helm.

No, ISIS, must be allowed to run its course. Rub peoples face in it. So even the dullest get the message.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 01:42pm PT
Yeah, right, PatatoHead, and the US landing on the moon was faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

What internet forums have shed a light on since their inception is just how much lunacy there is in the mental lives of its users.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 6, 2015 - 01:45pm PT
US landing on the moon was faked


zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Feb 6, 2015 - 01:59pm PT
If you can't get real, can you at least get sane?


The man who invented the neutron bomb, Samuel Cohen, has died in California, at the age of 89.

The neutron bomb was a small tactical nuclear weapon, which produced lethal tiny particles to kill enemy soldiers while leaving buildings largely undamaged.

Mr Cohen called it "the most sane weapon ever devised".


rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Feb 6, 2015 - 02:02pm PT
Cragman...spot on...LOL..
nature

climber
Boulder, CO
Feb 6, 2015 - 04:30pm PT
0wned

nailed it


Roxy? naw.... not sophisticated enough to bust out the zero
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 6, 2015 - 04:51pm PT
It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast, "Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today.

The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today."
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 6, 2015 - 05:33pm PT
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 06:39pm PT
PatatoHead, just curious, what's your take on this interesting "censored" video.

Might have to sign in to confirm age to watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJEvlKKm6og&bpctr=1423277719

Any military or sportsmen (RonA or toker or jonnyrig?) care to weigh in? I thought it was interesting, certainly thought-provoking, some of the commentary too.

"but in my view, this was a 'set up' for something else" -commenter

I'll be back...
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:03pm PT
TGT and Cragman:

You seem to think you have a greater understanding of the history and events in the mideast than anyone else.

Why don't you go ahead and post a detailed step by step solution to the problem(s). Don't bother to put up a bunch of copied Fox News stuff.

Feel free to annotate it with references your carefully conducted research in this area.



TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:13pm PT
Why don't you go ahead and post a detailed step by step solution to the problem(s).

There isn't one.

Sometimes real understanding between cultures means you just realize you have to get more ammunition.

zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:18pm PT
TGT and Cman - great responses fellas.

Didn't mean to single you two out, you just happened to be posting at the time I dropped by.

The offer is open to all takers.

TGT and Cragman clearly have failed.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:23pm PT
Only one person is qualified to answer this complex question...He's smarter than Henry Kissenger and posts from a bunker on Mars...The rest of us are stupid American twinky crankcase loons with diarrhea from eating too many processed foods...
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 07:49pm PT
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 08:12pm PT
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Feb 6, 2015 - 08:18pm PT
Nice one, Larry Nelson.

The only one in that bunch I'd trust is the hindu cat. Look at his eyes. That brother is turned on.

The rest of em...schlomo looks like he just realized that he sharted himself, mullah abdub-adub-duba looks extra shifty like a used car salesman, jesusguy I'm concerned for because it appears he is having a stroke when the picture is taken.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 08:18pm PT
Oh man, the Muslim hater is off probation, and he's got his militia posse with him.

Cragman's not much better. What a shameless fool.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Feb 6, 2015 - 08:45pm PT
The Twinkstar beatdown is some funny sh#t...But so is Cranksters come backs...
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 6, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
Before you hater, moral degenerates joined the conversation there was a reasonably intelligent discussion going on about a serious threat

Your hatred for the President of the United States is pathological. I'm sure in the far-right, extremist circles you keep that you're rarely challenged. Do it here on a public forum and you will get what you deserve. Every time.

Bullies and bigots...yawn...easy to deal with. Stooges.






John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 7, 2015 - 06:40am PT
As people around the world react with shock to the horrific ISIS video of the burning of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh, the Islamic State had a viewing party for their supporters who watched the barbaric murder on giant screens and erupted in cheer.

A video exclusively obtained by LisaDaftari.com, entitled ‘The Muslims’ delight at the burning of the Jordanian pilot,’ depicts ISIS supporters gathering in Raqqa, Syria, the headquarters of the jihadi group, cheering and chanting ‘Allah hu akbar!’ (Allah is great!) as they watched al-Kasasbeh consumed by flames.

http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=443&
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 7, 2015 - 06:41am PT
Bang the drum, fan the flames, you tea partier's will get your war.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 7, 2015 - 07:28am PT
RonA, jonnyrig, Toker, Chief, I know you guys are very familiar with types of guns and different ammo, so would you please evaluate this guy's video. It's in regards to the Charlie Hebdo attack. What do you think?

It's a short piece...

[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJEvlKKm6og&bpctr=1423324608

Does it have any merit? Curious as to your opinion?

Specifically, is this claim true...

"Under no circumstances does a bullet pass through a mans head without his head getting violently rocked on impact."

I've hunted with a high-powered rifle. But it was so long ago. "Under no circumstances" he says. Don't characteristics of wound site depend heavily on bullet type?

Or is it clear to your trained eye that his head wasn't shot just as video claims?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 7, 2015 - 07:51am PT
Thanks, Chief. So if you care to offer one, what's your opinion as to what's actually going on regarding this video? Is it just naivete maybe, or this guy just pushing his own agenda (perhaps based on the illusory nature of the image) or some such?

Just another bs video implying "Conspiracy".

Got it. Thanks for your input.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 7, 2015 - 11:29am PT
"The melon comparison is hilarious."

Ron, thanks for your response. Curious, does the melon shot in the video seem to you more a shot gun blast? Is the volume of that destruction just not indicative of a rifle shot, even a hollow point? From my own experience hunting with a high-powered rife long ago, I do remember the exit hole can be pretty destructive.

PS What you and Chief said jives with my own sense of it. But I wanted to get extra opinions esp in light of some of the HUGE "thumbs-up" numbers on the commentaries at youtube for this particular video.

One other point came to my mind, too. The fraction of a second delay in sound of gun shot as shooter approaches victim could be misleading folks. Also, I felt the dust cloud could've come from the ricochet off the concrete as well.

Thanks.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 7, 2015 - 12:51pm PT
Hey, this thread could use some more science-based liberal input...

Obama still pandering...

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Thanks Larry. Thanks Jerry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oPQRmWm_U#t=78

Hope you all watched Real Time with Bill Maher last night. Still speaking truth to silliness. (Although Marianne Williamson, yes a far left liberal, needed some filtering.)

I wish I could've jumped in on this video. I would've liked to had asked this Zainab Salbi (self-identified in the piece as a Muslim)... hey if Islam is so problematic, so obviously antiquated in so many teachings, so obviously barbaric in its scripture, why continue to support it?

Really, I wish every self-identifying Muslim - esp those with a science background and modern acculturation in the West - would challenge themselves with this question.

ISIS makes strange bedfellows.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 12, 2015 - 04:06pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 13, 2015 - 05:05pm PT
Barry won't back the Kurds.

They might be effective!

http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/398586/watch-spectacular-sight-kurdish-marksman-detonating-isis-car-bomb-distance-patrick
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 15, 2015 - 10:35am PT
Did y'all see where isis beheaded one of their own for smoking?
Apparently some of the ones who went out there from Europe are quitting ISIS
rather than quitting smoking! LOL! One daoud was arrested upon his return
to France after quitting. At least in he'll be allowed to smoke in the French slam! LOL!
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:20am PT
Admit it, right wingers...this is what you want.

fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:48am PT
The machine wants and needs moar woar... And it will get it if the sheep can be riled up enough.

It's an interesting concept of sending our boys over to bomb our other proxy psychopaths, and probably not a new concept.

Syria, and then Iran is the goal.

The new hollywood-esque professional videos from "ISIS" absolutely reek of propaganda.... Isn't it obvious? Only difference between Hollywood and those videos is the poor people actually do get executed.

It's like being beaten over the head with "Yeah, we get it, you're evil-incarnate and must be destroyed".
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:58am PT
I agree. We shouldn't go to war. What we need, is immigration control. Keep the overpopulation problem over there.

There's a lot of people that say Sadaam represented the good old days. Some stability. ISIS is stability too. Everyone should have a homeland. Even radical Islamists.
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:12am PT
As non-PC as it is, I think we need a one-way door for these guys to go join the extremist movement, and keep their asses there.

Saudi Arabia has the right idea: massive border fences. We could round up the extremists and kick them out with parachutes from 30k' over their precious homeland. Anyone trying to escape gets bug zapped.

We cut them off from modern technology/imports.

If they want the 1100's then we give it to them.
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:17am PT
This is the best, most informative article you will read on ISIS and "what they want"

Highly recommended, one of the best pieces of journalism I've read in probably a year or more.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:20am PT
Be sure to keep up with the latest...

These killers are now called "hybrids" - "part criminal and part terrorist."
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:28am PT
Holy crap, outstanding article!!
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 17, 2015 - 08:03am PT
Our current policy,is yet another example of how corrupt the Federal Government is.

Rather than take the difficult step of rounding up Visa Overstays and closing embassies, they pander to the Arms Industry by dropping the priciest weapons available and running up the deficit.
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 09:15am PT
It's groovy how they are restricting civilian ammo availability as we speak, but arming groups that will use our most advanced weapons against us one day.

BHO has to keep the lib votes flowing for ol Hil, though.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Feb 17, 2015 - 09:35am PT
Thanks for the article link, ElCap. What a great read.

Susan
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 10:12am PT
Love yer, too, Dingus.
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 10:26am PT
I agree, Ron, any stability we ever thought existed is evaporating.

Post 9/11 GW had Arab countries swarming to his side and trying to distance themselves from the extremists, but now the governments are packing their suitcases and sending their $$$ to offshore accounts because the people are speaking with action.

They rightfully see Barry O as weak and their apocalypse now mantra is garnering support from all over.

Within a year we'll have troops on the ground and they will bleed us dry financially while they spread and scatter, continually winning every battle in the mosque they appear to lose on the battlefield.

Cluster does not begin to describe this.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 10:40am PT
^^^Wrong on all counts.

GW's war in Iraq was the best recruitment tool the extremists could have imagined.

The President is weak...on Fox.

ISIS wants US troops on the ground. Another quagmire. Lucklily, we have a leader who will let the military aim before they shoot.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 10:49am PT
It's easy to pick the low hanging fruit...restating how evil ISIS is doesn't take a genius. We know that.
Certainly don't need another Bush plunging the US into another misguided ground war.

ISIS is doing a great job creating enemies in the Arab world. That could be there undoing.

Great article, Elcap, btw.

EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Feb 17, 2015 - 10:54am PT
A majority of Americans don’t think the fight against the terror group ISIS is going well, and they’re laying the blame on President Obama.

Fifty-eight percent of respondents believe the U.S. effort to combat ISIS is going badly, according to a poll released Monday by CNN/ORC. Comparatively, just 41 percent think the fight is going well – a slight downturn since last fall – with only 5 percent saying it’s going very well.

In October, opinions were essentially split, with 48 percent of Americans saying it was going well and 49 percent saying it was going badly. Negative opinions about the war went up nine percentage points since then, while positive opinions fell by seven points.

The number of people who approve of Obama’s handling of the Islamic State threat is in line with how Americans view the overall fight, with 40 percent of people approving of Obama’s handling of the terrorist group and 57 percent disapproving.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/16/poll_majority_negative_about_obamas_handling_of_isis_125623.html
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 17, 2015 - 10:56am PT
This is gonna get much worse.

Only a fool or a traitor would think he can charm the Persians out of their drive for nukes.

They've been at war with the west and pissed off ever since Marathon 3500 years ago.

Layer on that the Shia / Sunni war that's been going on ever since Mohamed's in-laws started squabbling over the spoils 700 years ago.

The community organizer thinks his personal charm will sway the azzhatolas and they will see the way to the skittle shitting rainbow unicorn and whirled peas. meanwhile they tell their negotiator to quit yelling at Kerry, because he's ready to cave.

Iran goes nuke, The Soddy's have already placed their order with Pakistan, and if the brothers in faith don't turn the whole neighborhood into glass, a loose one will show up in a shipping container near you.
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:02am PT
I think the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:22am PT
So we should barrel into Iraq, guns a firing, bombs a dropping--again--because that was a smashing success the first time?

dirtbag

climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:25am PT
Indeed Peladob. How many are under the thumb if these Islamic thugs now? MILLIONS.

The number of ISIS militants is in the tens of thousands.

Faux news won't tell you that, though.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:37am PT
I can't wait til our new republican president fixes all this sh#t.
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:39am PT
I'm going to repost this article link since it dropped off the page, worth reading for sure:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

Conservatives must be the biggest coward bedwetters I've ever encountered.

Pissing their pants with fear, playing right into the ISIS gameplan, ready to commit us to yet another military adventure that will further bankrupt our country and boost ISIS recruitment. And not a damn one of these rightwing cowards will be in the line of fire as they carp and cry from their keyboards, safely ensconced in Dumfukistan, NV.

It was barely a year ago that McCain was crying to arm the "rebels" in Syria, you know, the same "rebels" that now make up ISIS. Genius plan, Grandpa Walnuts.

Cut off the money, first and foremost. Continue with air strikes and cruise missiles. Let the Turks, Egyptians, Kurds, Iraqi sunnis, and Iran take the lead. They are ALL under threat in a serious way. We, on the other hand, face essentially zero threat.

There have been way more instances of rightwing nutjob domestic terror incidents in the last 10 years in the US than any islamist ones. The whole "I's a sovrun citzun, I do whut I want!" teaparty Bundy supporting clowns are a bigger threat in the US.

TGT, take your dementia meds, this isn't a comic book, this isn't Victor Davis Hanson's wet dream, this is real life. You want to commit our young people to fight and die for Israeli interests...then strap up and get your old ass over there and lead by example. I won't hold my breath waiting.

climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:45am PT
ElCapinyoazz

[quote]This is the best, most informative article you will read on ISIS and "what they want"

Highly recommended, one of the best pieces of journalism I've read in probably a year or more.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/[/quote]

WOW. Finally I am beginning to understand why ISIS exists. It makes sense from a fundamentalist religion POV. Easy for me to understand having been around certain Baptists for a while. Exceptional article.

Over a thousand year old Islamic "zionist" fundamental motivation.

And yes they want EVERYONE else (the Romans and illegitimate muslims) to go to war with them. Their strategy makes sense.

They won't last long though... Sad so much suffering over such BS.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 11:47am PT
Survival and elcap nail it. I look forward to reading that article when I have more time.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Feb 17, 2015 - 12:02pm PT
Psywar101 - destroy by psychological means so that the enemy begins to doubt the validity of his beliefs and actions.

'Taking Selfies to a New Level' these muslim devils actually
show their faces!!! Unlike the ISIS sissy's in Iraq and Libya hiding behind masks all day. Must be uncomfortable.

These CAR fighters don't seem shy at all posing menacingly.

http://shoebat.com/2014/05/24/muslims-attack-french-soldiers-machetes-french-open-fire-take-victory/
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 12:15pm PT
I think we should implement intensive national physical fitness programs and huge tax breaks for families with honest, responsible, physically fit kids.

If any foreign situation in my lifetime could start scooping up American youth in the name of world peace, it's this one.

From my standpoint as a doc, our youth are not ready mentally, and certainly not physically.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 12:19pm PT
Elcap for the win!
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Feb 17, 2015 - 12:28pm PT
Decided to do a little research on ISIS.

Now I see the following when I visit this forum.


LOL
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Feb 17, 2015 - 12:34pm PT
The Alantic article is a really good one, Elcap. Thanks for putting that up.

Still, might need to sharpen my sword to protect my family. Religious fervor can be hard to dissipate.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 17, 2015 - 12:46pm PT
Not according to these three who were in charge of that "military". One was just replaced this morning.

Yes indeedy. AND got locked out of his office by a dysfunctional Federal Gummint that closes for a coupla inches of snow.

We need to remember, this isn't your Fathers Federal Government. It's a bunch of entitled jackwagons that are in it for the benefits. Gotta fix that first.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Feb 17, 2015 - 01:05pm PT
Scott: In the city always a refelection, in the woods always a sound.

Curtis: What about the desert?

Scott: You don't wanna go in the desert.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 02:12pm PT
"Simple"

Nuts.
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 02:41pm PT
Just heard Ft Carson is sending 4000 to Kuwait right now.

Dingus might get his wish!
lars johansen

Trad climber
West Marin, CA
Feb 17, 2015 - 02:54pm PT
El cap, thanks for posting the link. I let my subscription to the Atlantic lapse. About as clear a picture of a very murky situation as you will get.
lars
WBraun

climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:04pm PT
Stop reading

Go to Syria and Ukraine and see for your own self the fuking lies by the corrupt western media controlled by the criminals in DC, Israel, and UK.

You loons lap it up like ice cream.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:05pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
lars johansen

Trad climber
West Marin, CA
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:10pm PT
Thanks Chief, I'll follow the link. Let's please stop the name calling. I've never offended you, have I?
Werner, since you have obviously been to Ukraine and the Middle East why don't you tell us what's really going on.
lars
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:10pm PT
Mid East Politics 101: in the name of religion, you enslave whoever possible. When your slaves complain/object/revolt you convince as many slaves as possible that it's the West's fault. Those who don't buy it are of the lesser subclass of your religion and deserve to die.

Wash, rinse, repeat if necessary.
WBraun

climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:30pm PT
All this bullsh!t beheadings and burning Jordanian pilot was distributed thru none other then Rita again.

All that bullsh!t comes thru Rita.

Americans are so stupid they believe everything they're spoon fed ....
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:32pm PT
They set 45 soldiers on fire in cages today. I hope they don't capture any Americans.
WBraun

climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:34pm PT
So it's OK to burn up and kill non Americans ???
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:35pm PT
some one schooled me last time I suggested this
So I will ask again

What are Bombs for If not this?


from 9/21/14
Old news but still,

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185359#.VOSMZEKCX8s
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:49pm PT
Lots of Islam and Mid East scholars believe they have been able to make the waves they have this time because the Koran predicts the formation of the caliphate prior to the apocalypse, and that the apocalypse/end of the world/we're all gonna die mantra is attracting people the same way that talk of natural disaster or foreign invasion gets prepper types here to stock ten years of food/toilet paper/booze.

Crazy gonna crazy.
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:50pm PT
Bombs are for this.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 17, 2015 - 04:06pm PT
As a crankster pointed out I am Troll?

well then please explain if there is an answer other than turning half the sand over there to glass?

If thirteen BOMBZ One A week till the fallout was no longer worth the result , were the plan that the civilized world were to choose.

Who would 'Win' and Who would "lose"?
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Feb 17, 2015 - 05:36pm PT
Today's crazy news.

Police: Terrence Lavaron Thomas stabbed two people today
waiting at a bus stop near Detroit. He first questioned them,
asking if they were muslim. When two people answered they were not
he pulled out a knife and stabbed them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/17/man-stabs-two-at-a-bus-stop-after-asking-them-if-theyre-muslim/?tid=sm_tw

Recommend carry an instant blood clotting product when out in public.
http://www.amazon.com/Pac-Kit-90326-Piece-WoundSeal-Powder/dp/B003S8A6KU

or similar product






crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:21pm PT
As a crankster pointed out I am Troll?
Wasn't referring to you, Gnome.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:36pm PT
Maybe we should give them jobs.

You must be blonde and work for the state department.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
Just for Dingus.

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-roots-of-obamas-appeasement.html#.VOEkYirl4BI.twitter
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:48pm PT
The Chief...Those ISIS guys could work at Foster Farms processing chickens...Turning swords into plow shares...
atchafalaya

Boulder climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:48pm PT
Tgt, say, thanks for posting that article for Dingus. A really special share...

Makes one wonder who the moron is who wrote that, or if anyone reads it and is stupid enough to agree with the writers misinformed opinions. Oh well, anyone can "publish" an article on the internet. But it takes a special kind of idiot to re-post something that stupid.

Cheers and namaste
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:48pm PT
Maybe the American unemployed should join ISIS.

At least then Obama will pay attention to them.
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:51pm PT
Maybe they can join the KKK and keep business as usual, burning the others alive, because God told them its OK to kill the others that make them feel icky

There must be a lot of unemployed KKKs right?, since their Red State Gov.s decided to sell out the state to special interests and now there are no jobs
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 06:54pm PT
Paying attention to the unemployed is a bad thing in Extremist World.

When ya heading to the front, TGT?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:00pm PT
There must be a lot of unemployed KKKs right?

You mean the little antebellum club started as the official terrorist wing of the Democrat party?

The one that won't allow blacks, Jews or Republicans as members?
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:01pm PT
Not trying to change the subject but who is Rita..?
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:04pm PT
Rj, you are one funny dude. Google Rita Katz.
Chief, let's stick to ISIS. This is an interesting read.

http://www.newsweek.com/how-isis-can-be-defeated-307423
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
Focus, Chief...this is an ISIS thread.
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:09pm PT
There has never been a terrorist wing of the American Liberals
Every terrorist group of Americans formed out of right wing hate group called right wingers or conservatives, and there were black right wingers as well

100 years ago the Right wingers were called Democrats, they stayed Dems in the South until they found out the Dems were Now liberal and supported Minority Rights, so they ALL switched to the NEW Conservative Party the Repubs

There is only one group that hates to give minority equal rights, and that is the right wingers, so if you call the past Democrats right wingers, then you are just saying that they were actually what we now call a Republican
I know it may be too much to comprehend, but if you had any sense, you would be able to figure out that the whole South is RED, like it's Always been
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:14pm PT
??? The comparison between the KKK and ISIS....means what, exactly, Chafe? Do you have ADHD?
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:19pm PT
There has never Been a Liberal KKK
they are were all Right Wingers

can't you comprehend the difference between a liberal and conservative
The Dems were the Conservative party then, The conservatives fought for slavery, started the KKk, killed millions of blacks, end of debate.

Now they are called Republicans, hence they are now called RED STATES.
They are the same redneck god and gun loving morons
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:23pm PT
Prove it wacko
What Liberal has been a KKK member?
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:26pm PT
There were exactly ZERO liberals in the KKK, can you bother to look up the definition of right winger vs. liberal?

Right winger hate group = KKK = Conservative = Republican

It doesn't, matter if you call them Dems or not, the Southern Hate Party all changed to Repubs when the parties changed

end of debate
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:33pm PT
So, the Chafe is arguing that Democrat's have a "racial problem", not Republicans? Wow. Just, wow. Wasn't the late 1800's like a long time ago?
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:49pm PT
ISIS bad.
ISIS bad.

This, we know. We get it.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 08:23pm PT
Who's Barry? Are you talking about the Commander in Chief? Traitor.

You can't grasp the big picture. All you want is vengeance. Sad.

You're a modern day Curtis LeMay.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Feb 17, 2015 - 08:54pm PT
If I were an expert in psy-ops I would be spreading the word that Bahgdadi is just another of the 30 Dajjal. Not the Mahdi

"The Mahdi is of my lineage, with a high forehead and a long, thin, curved nose."

Doesnt look like this Bahgdadi dipsh#t.



crankster

Trad climber
Feb 17, 2015 - 09:01pm PT
There IS a US-led coalition fight going on against ISIS. Happening NOW. But most are fixated on the rightwing media's semantic nonsense (see: any post by Cheef).
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Feb 18, 2015 - 06:19am PT
There has never been a terrorist wing of the American Liberals
Every terrorist group of Americans formed out of right wing hate group called right wingers or conservatives, and there were black right wingers as well

Weather Underground and the SLA came from rightwing hate groups?
peladob

Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
Feb 18, 2015 - 06:34am PT
Make sure you know the source of that kidney grandma's getting....

.....I'm waiting for the twin experiments to start.

http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-envoy-un-islamic-state-might-harvesting-organs-010243591.html
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 06:34am PT
Oh man, Cragman channeling Fox, et al, rightwing media lunacy....meanwhile, the brave men and women in our armed serviced fight on.

US Launches 16 Airstrikes Against Islamic State in Last 24 Hours

The United States led coalition against Islamic State had staged 16 airstrikes against the terror group since early Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement Wednesday.

14 of the airstrikes were launched into Iraq, while two were staged in Syria. They struck several units of ISIS fighters as well as staging areas, fighting positions, buildings and equipment.

Cragman...I'm guessing you voted McCain/Palin, right?
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 06:54am PT
Rightwing media went (fake) nuts about a State Dept. spokesperson relation poverty to ISIS recruitment. Nary a mention when GW did the same thing,

President George W. Bush In 2002: "We Fight Against Poverty Because Hope Is An Answer To Terror." In a 2002 speech to the UN International Conference on Financing for Development, President George W. Bush addressed the need to confront poverty as a driving force of radicalization, calling it a condition "that terrorists can seize and try to turn to their advantage:

BUSH: Many here today have devoted their lives to the fight against global poverty, and you know the stakes. We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror. We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity. We fight against poverty because faith requires it and conscience demands it. And we fight against poverty with a growing conviction that major progress is within our reach.

We will challenge the poverty and hopelessness and lack of education and failed governments that too often allow conditions that terrorists can seize and try to turn to their advantage. [President George W. Bush's Remarks To The International Conference on Financing for Development, United Nations, 3/22/02]

Hypocrisy is the lifeblood of the far right.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 06:58am PT
Not only is the POTUS worried about improving his golf game, he considers Climate Change a more serious problem than the ISIS threat.


The world gets warmer.......with every subject these nutjobs burn.


And the POTUS putts on.....



Oh Stfu.

On the Climate Change thread, you admitted that you aren't even interested in learning about the science.

In other words, you are happy being ignorant. Congratulations.

Why should anyone give a flying fook what you say about climate change?
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 18, 2015 - 07:20am PT
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.co.il/2015/02/progressives-they-are-just-actors-in.html

..............


In progressive world, the KKK equals the Tea Party, when in the real world, the KKK served as the armed wing of the Democratic Party. In progressive world, Western civilization is the source for all the poverty and evil in the world, when, in fact, the concepts of liberty, justice, and human rights are Western constructs.

Your standard progressive activist has really done nothing very interesting, so he or she needs to get proper credentials, to show that he or she knows what's what, and that progressivism is what the world needs to deal with "problems"--after all, isn't life just a series of problems calling for progressive intervention? They want to see what they believe.

We, hence, have progressives making up the sort of stuff that puts them, the elite, in the center of the battle, on the ramparts, in the muddy trenches and downed helicopters with the common schlubs--the sort of worldly experience that allows progressives to tell us how to live our lives.

Telling lies is essential to progressivism.
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Feb 18, 2015 - 07:21am PT
I voted for Bush in 2000, Kerry in 2004, Obama in 2008 and 2012.

At the state level, I've voted straight ticket Republican with the exception of Brown in the most recent election.

You regularly state you're a Republican, even though you voted for Democrats in the last three presidential elections.

Claiming you voted straight ticket Republican, while voting Democrat in the primary state level race? That's not a straight ticket.

Didn't you previously say you voted for four candidates(in 2014), with half Republican and half Democrat?

Who did you vote for US House?
Hoser

climber
vancouver
Feb 18, 2015 - 07:23am PT
Put 5000 Chris Kyle's in country, give them all as much ammo and a green light to terminate any fkstick that is in an ISIS controlled area carrying a weapon. Do that until that area no longer has any human walking around carrying a weapon

people like The Chief are why Americans said sorry before telling you where they were from for the decade before Obama showed up, and why Canadians had to sew flags on their packs so they were not mistook for Americans.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. I think you have tried the lets go in an kill everyone approach already... maybe you need a WMD again and again...
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 07:26am PT
Spot on, Hoser...but we're not all crazy down here. The far right is spoiling for a fight, sure, but, luckily, we have a president who remembers the Iraq debacle.
Hoser

climber
vancouver
Feb 18, 2015 - 07:59am PT
I know Crank,

Dont worry Chief, our Canadian version of Bush is outta here in the next election.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 18, 2015 - 08:13am PT
Hoser's are Kafir.

WBraun

climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 09:12am PT
The criminal mainstream media outlets are doing and excellent job of keep all you stooopid sheep in line.

Rita Katz is doing her job keeping the bullsh!t level at extreme.

That is how you keep the sheep in line by the dogs of the media.

Americans with all their advanced so called education and technology still remains stupid as hell when it comes understanding the real world around them.

All the wars, lies and stupid politics that we now see in front of us is of our own making.

Instead the stoopid Americans point their fingers at everyone else as usual due to the excellent brain washing of their criminal leaders.

Instead of fighting the world it's much easier to get rid of the criminal leaders.

Unfortunately it's still the other way around, endless war.

Stupid stupid stupid brainwashed Americans you deserve everything being dished out to you ....

dirtbag

climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 12:59pm PT
Tiny man with big moobs is compensating again.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 01:05pm PT
Oh, how cute. Now chief is complaining about personal attacks.
Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Feb 18, 2015 - 01:05pm PT
If all this off topic ad hominem b.s. doesn't stop now, I'm going to kill the discussion
dirtbag

climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 01:09pm PT
Newsflash: you can't control how discussions proceed. If that makes you uncomfortable then don't introduce anything.
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 18, 2015 - 01:11pm PT
My attempt...

(CNN)The U.S. is maintaining a list of about two dozen or so top ISIS operatives in Iraq and Syria it hopes to target in airstrikes according to a senior U.S. official. The list essentially amounts to a kill list, since the U.S. has no troops on the ground in Iraq or Syria to capture ISIS suspects. The number one target on the list is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

One U.S. official said Baghdadi is well aware the U.S. is hunting him, so the belief is he is staying out of sight. It's been months since the last intelligence report about where Baghdadi is hiding, a senior U.S. official tells CNN. The U.S. believes Al Baghdadi knows warplanes are hunting him so he moves cautiously -- even as his influence has grown beyond Syria and Iraq.

The U.S. has already killed a dozen or so ISIS operatives on the list including an ISIS chemical weapons expert the senior official says. But others are added to the list as intelligence is gained about their role in ISIS. The official strongly emphasized that the command and control structure of ISIS remains murky and more intelligence is needed about the identity of top operatives.

ISIS executioners like so-called Jihadi John are still in the U.S. crosshairs -- but the list focuses on targeting those whose death would broadly hurt ISIS. The kill list may now expand as the U.S. struggles to understand an ISIS command structure made more confusing by the growth of ISIS adherents in Egypt, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. One analyst cautions those labeling themselves as ISIS all may have very different goals.

"We have to take each terrorist or cult organization in every country as a separate entity. We can't look at it as one big group. You may miss the most important targets when you are doing that," said Mark Hertling, CNN military analyst.

The execution of Egyptian Christians on the Libyan coastline underscores the targeting problem. The U.S. wants to identify the killers. But the broader worry is ISIS's position in Libya. It now has a stronghold in Derna and operates across Libyan coastal areas within reach of southern Europe via busy shipping lanes.

"It's very difficult to have the same kind of controls over people who might be getting on boats who might be working as stevedores or laborers on ships that are coming into European ports," Hertling said.

Port

Trad climber
Norwalk, CT
Feb 18, 2015 - 01:12pm PT
If all this off topic ad hominem b.s. doesn't stop now, I'm going to kill the discussion

So that another can be created and the same BS continues? Take responsibility for your own thread. Did you really think it'd be any different than all off-topic threads?
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