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?

^^^ nothing will ever end the stupidity of people who think everything is about Islam.

It's about money and power.

Stupid Americans.

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.

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...

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.

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

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!

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.

Did you ever hear the phrase " for God and Country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo"?

We even have " in God we trust " on all our money.

Or George Bush's famous " this Crusade is going to take a while"?

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.

Why is there no Kurdish state, for instance?

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.

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"?

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.