Hearts Broken; Eaten in Syria

[The Emerald Dawn]

I'd be more concerned about having it raw. He doesn't know where it's been.

I'm pretty sure it was in some other guy's body.

Yes, but if you eat the heart of someone, you're eating the heart of everyone they've ever eaten the heart of.

[Densaner]

Yeah let's all back the rebels!

Second thoughts...let's all stay the hell away from Syria, forever!

[Eastern Slavia]

But there can only be one general butt naked.

[Byzantium Imperial]

Now that i think of it, i could go for some human heart right about now. Though preferably cooked

[The Marxist State]

I'm guessing that he was heartless, and needed a heart to consume. On a more serious note, I'm concerned that thugs like him are in prominent leadership positions.

The article said he was a well-known insurgent. Not part of the Revolutionary Council or in any other position of power. While this doesn't excuse what he did, you generally don't get to be a well-known soldier because you're a nice guy.

[Alekera]

Damn! Just when I thought the middle east couldn't get any more barbaric, this happens....

Now for the pun! I guess we could say, they had one's heart in one's mouth....

[Quebec and Atlantic Canada]

Oh man guys, the Heartless are REAL! I told you not to play Kingdom Hearts or you'd let them free, but you didn't listen, now did you?!

[Shofercia]

I'm guessing that he was heartless, and needed a heart to consume. On a more serious note, I'm concerned that thugs like him are in prominent leadership positions.

The article said he was a well-known insurgent. Not part of the Revolutionary Council or in any other position of power. While this doesn't excuse what he did, you generally don't get to be a well-known soldier because you're a nice guy.

You don't need to be a part of Revolutionary Council to have a leadership position, and article says that he's in a position of power:

"Abu Sakkar is a very significant commander - he's in charge of one of the most important battles happening in Syria right now," said Mr Bouckaert. "The danger is that extremists on both sides will feel the need to respond in kind."

More info and full story here

Maybe he's just trying to "win" hearts and minds, in his own, unique way. Hopefully his men won't try to "win" anymore hearts and minds. Anyone know if he's been "winning" any minds yet?

Also, you can be a well known soldier if you're a nice guy. You just cannot be a nice guy during the battle. But between battles, as long as you have all of your sectors covered, you can be nice!

[Ainin]

This guy was yolo swag.

[Trollgaard]

Hmm...I'm honestly not to disturbed by this. Its odd, and harkens back to an earlier age, but damn...I have to admit that's pretty fucking badass.

[Blekksprutia]

Syria be messed up, man.

[Dirthkos]

How else will he gain his enemy's strength?

^this

[Al-Faisal]

Yeah let's all back the rebels!

Second thoughts...let's all stay the hell away from Syria, forever!

Please and thank you.

[Azelkaeth]

The world is not made up of cute and fluffy kittens. Sometimes to protect your country and its people, you have to drop a bomb on somebody.

Just thought I'd say, I like this line.

[Temujinn]

Its war, he is on the front line, he is watching his friends and nation be ripped apart...blood lust?

I wont pretend to be so above the savages to claim I dont understand, I might think its gross.

Its not like this kind of thing hasnt gone on in just about every conflict.

Collecting fingers, ears, scrotums, heads, teeth...sorry its just not that shocking. Also, I get it.

[Grand Britannia]

Probably played Dead Space.

[Kazarogkai]

Meh, i don't see anything wrong with that. The person is dead, who cares what happens to the body (ok, maybe the relatives). But i consider the killing to be the problem, not what happens to a dead body.

Regardless, hearts are tasty.

Desecration of an enemy combatant's body post-mortem is a war crime, and should be prosecuted as such.

Gathering trophies, mutilating the bodies, using them as "warnings" or booby-trapping them. All war crimes.

I see that as just being very smart, not a terrible crime. War is war, all us fair in love and war. Its a dead body for petes sake what happens to it shouldn't really matter.

[The Emerald Dawn]

Desecration of an enemy combatant's body post-mortem is a war crime, and should be prosecuted as such.

Gathering trophies, mutilating the bodies, using them as "warnings" or booby-trapping them. All war crimes.

I see that as just being very smart, not a terrible crime. War is war, all us fair in love and war. Its a dead body for petes sake what happens to it shouldn't really matter.

Do everyone a favor, never join a military.

[Pope Joan]

These so called rebels (mercenary "insurgents") are tools of Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose arms they bear.

And whose chemical weapons they use.

Did we not learn about these beasts from the atrocities of Aleppo?

Or were we so brainwashed that we believed these depredations were somehow unleashed against Assad's most staunch allies, the Christians?

Fools.

Worse than fools, we knew all the time what we were supporting.

[Costa Alegria]

How else will he gain his enemy's strength?

Power-ups.

In saying that, the fuck? This is certainly worse than Syrian special forces eating live snakes to prove their toughness.

These so called rebels (mercenary "insurgents") are tools of Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose arms they bear.

Hurr, it's those evil Jews again.

And whose chemical weapons they use.

Neither country has chemical weapons.

Fool.

Yup. The mirror certainly is damning isn't it?

[Pope Joan]

How else will he gain his enemy's strength?

Power-ups.

In saying that, the fuck? This is certainly worse than Syrian special forces eating live snakes to prove their toughness.

These so called rebels (mercenary "insurgents") are tools of Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose arms they bear.

Hurr, it's those evil Jews again.

And whose chemical weapons they use.

Neither country has chemical weapons.

Fool.

Yup. The mirror certainly is damning isn't it?

One nation in the mideast is known to possess sarin; Israel. No other dupply connection can be proved.
The so called rebels are largely Al Qaeda, and we have known it for a long time. Yet they bear arms of Saudi and Israeli manufacture.
Pressure is great to draw the US into further involvement; why? To create another Libya? Can't we learn from even our most recent mistakes deliberately wrongheaded policies?

Jews are great, they helped created Western civilization. Tel Aviv is horrid. Abraham Heschel and I are not antisemitic because we oppose Zionism.

[Alekera]

I bet you moments before he ate the guy's heart, the rebel heard a mysterious loud voice. One which said....

^{Finish Him!}

[Costa Alegria]

One nation in the mideast is known to possess sarin; Israel. No other dupply connection can be proved.

Well first, you actually have to prove that Israel has sarin and that it wasn't taken from stocks in Syria, a nation known to have large stockpile of chemical weapons.

The so called rebels are largely Al Qaeda, and we have known it for a long time.

The majority are secular. There are Islamists.

Yet they bear arms of Saudi and Israeli manufacture.

Saudi Arabia doesn't have the capabilities to produce it's own firearms and what Israeli weapons that are in the hands of rebels most likely came from Lebanon, where they were in the hands of the South Lebanese Army during the Civil War.

Pressure is great to draw the US into further involvement; why? To create another Libya? Can't we learn from even our most recent mistakes deliberately wrongheaded policies?

Despite some setbacks, Libyans are rebuilding their country and managing it quite well.

[Esparmuran]

Ban hearts.

[Temujinn]

These so called rebels (mercenary "insurgents") are tools of Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose arms they bear.

And whose chemical weapons they use.

Did we not learn about these beasts from the atrocities of Aleppo?

Or were we so brainwashed that we believed these depredations were somehow unleashed against Assad's most staunch allies, the Christians?

Fools.

Worse than fools, we knew all the time what we were supporting.

"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell."