Read more http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/us-military-staff-alert-after-isis-group-posts-hit-list-online-6264450 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/21/isis-military-hit-list_n_6916628.html Kinda ****ed up, if you ask me. Involving wives and kids in this business?
I am in no way defending ISIS. If you guys kill every single one of them, I'll be very happy. But are you sure you haven't killed any of their wives and kids? barfo
I'm positive I haven't. I'm also positive that no wives and children were targeted at their homes and schools just because we couldn't get to the bad guys.
I'm also pretty certain that people from a random air force base that have never deployed to the middle east also haven't.
We are dropping million dollar bombs on them with a legion of flying robots. If they fight back, that's kinda how war works.
If these treats ever happen, with the combination of all the school shootings over the years I truly wonder if we will see armed security at schools one day.
They aren't supposed to fight back? They don't have a flying robot army, but they're doing their best, cut them a little slack.
A) They aren't "fighting back" against shit. They are the instigators. Good people try to stop them from mutilating, bombing, beheading, and generally killing and terrorizing others in their ignorance-fueled genocidal tendencies. B) When those good people do, they rarely but occasionally have collateral damage. And even that is significantly lower than the vast majority think. Not one single time has an American or allied force been directed to go after families in their homes. Those who have have on their own have been severely punished. In war, there are rules.
I think the general fear of ISIS is due to them not following any rules of war. Beheadings, burning people alive, capture and murder of foreign journalists covering the fighting, etc. I mean, we deal with plenty of religious nations without having to bomb them.
Hey barfo, Discuss this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...a-success-now-the-yemeni-government-may-fall/ Four months ago, Obama called Yemen’s war on terror a success. Now the Yemeni government may fall. On Tuesday, Shiite insurgents overran Yemen’s presidential palace, posing a coup-style threat to current President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Should Hadi be pushed out, it'll likely have broad consequences: Hadi had proven himself a loyal ally in the fight against al-Qaeda’s much-feared branch in Yemen, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Not that long ago, Yemen was being painted in a different light. Flash back to the heady days of September 2014 (four months ago), and the war on terror in Yemen was being touted as a "success" in speeches by President Obama. Talking about the threat posed by the Islamic State, Obama pointed toward Yemen and Somalia as possible examples: This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out [the Islamic State] wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years. Even back then, many who knew the situation in Yemen questioned that logic. My colleague Ishaan Tharoor argued that Yemen was an example of "U.S. mission creep, not success," and that the threat posed by AQAP was still very real (after AQAP claimed to be behind the high-profile attacks in Paris this month, that point grew stronger). "Very few people who are not part of the administration consider either of those cases a success," the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman wrote.
Wait, so killing a bunch of people and spending billions of dollars didn't actually help anything? Weird. You'd think we would eventually get the hint. Oh wait...beheadings! Scary twitter feed!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/politics/isis-gaining-ground-in-yemen/ ISIS gaining ground in Yemen, competing with al Qaeda Sorry, but Obama and Hillary and now Kerry have really fucked things up all over. Obama's speech about war on terror and Yemen is just downright clueless.
I don't know, I might have gotten really drunk one night, and hopped on a plane to Riyadh, killed a few random people, and gotten home in time for cornflakes.
