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Started by Olivia Bauer, August 15, 2014, 09:29:50 AM

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RCMerchant

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Quote from: Josso on September 13, 2014, 06:37:19 AM
So would there be a limit of "collateral damage" for you, could you put a number on that like 1000 civilians is ok but 1001 is not.

I dont know-I'm a bad movie geek-not an expert on military affairs.
If it was involved with killing folks in Lawton,Michigan,I'm sure I wouldn't be so loose with my views.
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What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was awful.
But it DID end the war.
At what price?
At what human price?
War is evil-we all know that.But if we dont stop these people-they wont stop. Chamberlin tried to p***yfoot with  the Nazi-didnt work.
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RCMerchant

All war is evil-murder is evil.But if we don't stop ISIS now-it will get worse. Teenage American girls are joining them-because they think its cool. This is BAD.
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JaseSF

I agree that ISIS is a great evil that needs to be stopped. The big problem with ISIS is that they could have supporters anyplace, anywheres...that's what makes them so scary. Does that mean we go rounding people up and putting them in camps like with the Asian people in the 1940s? That seems a tad extreme...no easy answers...
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Jack

The Suadi's and Qatari's basically created ISIS by pouring a ton of money into Syria in hopes of getting rid of Assad.  And the Qatari's also financed the whole Palestinian missile program. 

Instead of spending money on a war we should spend it on sealing up the Southern border and impose draconian travel restrictions.  Only by having to deal with the consequences of what they've done will these Middle Eastern countries ever change their ways.
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Archivist

In the last few days, there have been police raids in Australia involving 800 officers, arresting dozens of people suspected of being Islamic militants.  They had been surveilled since at least September last year and were recorded discussing plots to randomly capture and publicly behead someone, maybe in Sydney or Queensland or both.  And in the wake of this, some terrorist idiot has ordered the faithful to kill Australians, Americans, French and whoever else has been involved in this conflict.

These people are not following orders or being forced into this, they are volunteer nutcases who need to be locked up and stamped out.
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lester1/2jr

I saw that Australia story. US is bombing Syria now I hope this doesn't send these lunatic 5th columnists some sort of signal

Flangepart

I think the 'kill anyone who ain't us' signal was sent a looooong time ago. They just try to milk it in the western media if it helps defeat their enemy psychologically.
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dean

Quote from: Archivist on September 22, 2014, 09:55:36 PM
In the last few days, there have been police raids in Australia involving 800 officers, arresting dozens of people suspected of being Islamic militants.  They had been surveilled since at least September last year and were recorded discussing plots to randomly capture and publicly behead someone, maybe in Sydney or Queensland or both.  And in the wake of this, some terrorist idiot has ordered the faithful to kill Australians, Americans, French and whoever else has been involved in this conflict.

These people are not following orders or being forced into this, they are volunteer nutcases who need to be locked up and stamped out.

I think it's important to note that only one person has been charged, and the details are awfully murky.  That recent one in Melbourne of the teenager being shot by police also smacks more of someone with a mental problem who has a bit of support to the cause of ISIS rather than an out and out militant [I mean who goes to a police station with armed with a knife? Just stupid...] 

It's likely that eventually some idiot will try something, but the reality is I have more danger of getting hit by a car than being swept up as a victim of a domestic terror attack, so really I'm choosing to focus my worries on more important matters.

As for abroad, by all accounts ISIS are pretty terrible.  I wouldn't even fathom the right approach to dealing with it, though I would labour the point that 'just bombing the entire region into ash' is probably not the right way to go about it.
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Olivia Bauer

My Mom is getting paranoid. Apparently ISIS has been recruiting in Minneapolis. On 9/11 she picked me up from school saying "People always act screwy on 9/11".

I suppose that's why they're called terrorists.

Olivia Bauer

Also the mobile wallet application "ISIS Wallet" changed its name to "Softcard". Be funny if another terrorist organization called Softcard appeared.

I kid but at least they knew it was a good idea to rename the product. If only everyone were so smart...


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Jack

Quote from: A.J. Bauer on September 27, 2014, 02:05:08 AM
My Mom is getting paranoid. Apparently ISIS has been recruiting in Minneapolis. On 9/11 she picked me up from school saying "People always act screwy on 9/11".

I suppose that's why they're called terrorists.

Yeah I heard that most of the Americans that traveled to Syria to join ISIS were from some part of Minneapolis.  Good grief, I used to live there  :bluesad:
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