Islamic State Crisis Megathread (ISIS/ISIL/IS) II

[Ganos Lao]

They also just use it as a viable combat strategy. Spend a few bucks and a couple of martyrs, force the enemy to spend millions.
It is a brilliant simple strategy. Which works.

Also they are really seperate fights. Driving ISIS from Iraq and Syria will not drive them from Molenbeek. ISIS is not a battlefield or conventional threat, they do better with small cells launching terror attacks then they ever will on the battlefield.

ISIS is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

[Novus America]

Also they are really seperate fights. Driving ISIS from Iraq and Syria will not drive them from Molenbeek. ISIS is not a battlefield or conventional threat, they do better with small cells launching terror attacks then they ever will on the battlefield.

ISIS is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

Pretty much. Wahhabism and Salafism are the disease. ISIS just a symptom.

[Sanctissima]

Also they are really seperate fights. Driving ISIS from Iraq and Syria will not drive them from Molenbeek. ISIS is not a battlefield or conventional threat, they do better with small cells launching terror attacks then they ever will on the battlefield.

ISIS is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

Y'know, shortly after V says that he dies of bullet wounds.

But yeah, ISIS' ideology is ultimately an idea that won't go away once the group dies. Wahhabism and Salafism will be around for some time yet, but then again it takes a certain type of person to adopt such ideas into a way of life, and people are by no means bulletproof.

[Novus America]

ISIS is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

Y'know, shortly after V says that he dies of bullet wounds.

But yeah, ISIS' ideology is ultimately an idea that won't go away once the group dies. Wahhabism and Salafism will be around for some time yet, but then again it takes a certain type of person to adopt such ideas into a way of life, and people are by no means bulletproof.

True. But quite uncofortably the real fight might be closer to home. Throwing some bomb in the sand of the great international bombing range is one thing.

Gunning down terrorists in Brussels something else.

[Sanctissima]

Y'know, shortly after V says that he dies of bullet wounds.

But yeah, ISIS' ideology is ultimately an idea that won't go away once the group dies. Wahhabism and Salafism will be around for some time yet, but then again it takes a certain type of person to adopt such ideas into a way of life, and people are by no means bulletproof.

True. But quite uncofortably the real fight might be closer to home. Throwing some bomb in the sand of the great international bombing range is one thing.

Gunning down terrorists in Brussels something else.

Eh, I think it's something that Europe will have to deal with more than anything else. Us colonials will inevitably have to continue dealing with the occasional terrorist attacks too, but ultimately I think Europe will take the brunt of the storm. In the case of Belgium, things will only continue to get worse until they come to terms with the fact that they have a serious problem with domestic radicalization, and that they can't let Saudi-funded Salafist mosques continue to operate in their country.

[Novus America]

True. But quite uncofortably the real fight might be closer to home. Throwing some bomb in the sand of the great international bombing range is one thing.

Gunning down terrorists in Brussels something else.

Eh, I think it's something that Europe will have to deal with more than anything else. Us colonials will inevitably have to continue dealing with the occasional terrorist attacks too, but ultimately I think Europe will take the brunt of the storm. In the case of Belgium, things will only continue to get worse until they come to terms with the fact that they have a serious problem with domestic radicalization, and that they can't let Saudi-funded Salafist mosques continue to operate in their country.

True. Though we are less squeamish here. If police gun down a terrorist here nobody gives a shit. Also we have the death penalty and ADX Florence for those caught.

But yes, banning Saudi (and Qatari) funding to schools and mosques, shutting down those that violate any law, aggressive assimilationism/brainwashing and desegregation are what we need. But are not yet prepared to do.

[Gauthier]

ISIS is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

Pretty much. Wahhabism and Salafism are the disease. ISIS just a symptom.

Ideas can be corrupted and degenerated into memes. How many people get strange looks whenever they listen to a Rick Astley song out of genuine enjoyment?