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On 9/2/14 6:41 PM, KC wrote:
On 9/2/2014 4:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:24:22 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote: On 9/2/14 3:53 PM, wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:26:29 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:04:09 -0500, Califbill wrote: "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ISIL has reportedly beheaded another American journalist. Says they do not care what the world thinks about them. Makes them even scarier to a sane person. === Yes but it will also make it easier to marshall world opinion against them. No civilized society goeas around beheading journalists. They are not exactly an invincible force if everyone stands fast against them. Somewhere they have a source of funding and supplies. Without that they could not last long. If nothing else it should be relatively easy to kill their telecom, media and internet. Where do they go after that, carrier pigeons? I like the line from "Alien". "Nuke them from orbit" Unfortunately, we didn't learn the lessons of Vietnam and we didn't learn from the Russian disaster in Afghanistan. These modern-day terrorists have no real hometown or territory anymore. They might take a town for a while, and then they'll give it up for another town. If you bomb the town into the stone age (where it probably is already), you end up killing lots of non-combatants and you make lots of converts. The only real way to fight these guys is to have the folks whose towns they take over fight back. But then you don't know what you are ending up with. The difference is ISIS has intentions of actually becoming a state with assets. BTW that was just metaphor, meaning I am not sure we should really be that involved. I am not sure we really have a policy that would be very effective, unless we just propped up Assad and left it to him. All you have to do to "prop up Assad" is to give him a bottle of Viagra.. Comeon, you gotta' admit, the guy does look like a huge penis with a suit on, doesn't he? Yeah, I remember the 7th grade, too, but I got promoted. |
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:43:28 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:
All you have to do to "prop up Assad" is to give him a bottle of Viagra.. Comeon, you gotta' admit, the guy does look like a huge penis with a suit on, doesn't he? Yeah, I remember the 7th grade, too, but I got promoted. === Anti-socially promoted? |
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