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

[Blakk Metal]

ISIS has the ability to attack far away areas deep in enemy territory consistently?

Crazy Abe > Hitler

[Gauthier]

They need to declare war on the mobs who stormed a scottish store, and threatened to kill the owners for the "crime" of being muslim.

No silly, the mob was just Fighting Terrorism™.

[New confederate ramenia]

ISIS has the ability to attack far away areas deep in enemy territory consistently?

Crazy Abe > Hitler

Crazy Abe is Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, right?

[Gauthier]

ISIS has the ability to attack far away areas deep in enemy territory consistently?

Crazy Abe > Hitler

All Daesh figures come with Deep Strike.

[Napkiraly]

ISIS has the ability to attack far away areas deep in enemy territory consistently?

Crazy Abe > Hitler

Crazy Abe is Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, right?

Ja.

[Napkiraly]

ISIS has the ability to attack far away areas deep in enemy territory consistently?

Crazy Abe > Hitler

All Daesh figures come with Deep Strike.

Commander Boreale is their General. *nod*

[Ganos Lao]

They need to declare war on the mobs who stormed a scottish store, and threatened to kill the owners for the "crime" of being muslim.

So one of my predictions is coming true.

And decades later, the West will act totally aloof as to its role.

[Ganos Lao]

The sleeping giant awakes!
It's all over now! For reals! Some anonymous person online just declared was on ISIS! Truly, they must be quaking in terror.

Anonymous couldn't even handle the Cartels, who scared them off when they turned the tables on 'em (the Cartels were tracking down Anonymous members themselves to be specific).

What makes 'em think they can handle a group ten times worse?

[Gauthier]

The sleeping giant awakes!
It's all over now! For reals! Some anonymous person online just declared was on ISIS! Truly, they must be quaking in terror.

Anonymous couldn't even handle the Cartels, who scared them off when they turned the tables on 'em (the Cartels were tracking down Anonymous members themselves to be specific).

What makes 'em think they can handle a group ten times worse?

They probably don't even have to track down Anons, their short attention spans means they get bored and go back to griefing ordinary people on the Internet.

[Ganos Lao]

Anonymous couldn't even handle the Cartels, who scared them off when they turned the tables on 'em (the Cartels were tracking down Anonymous members themselves to be specific).

What makes 'em think they can handle a group ten times worse?

They probably don't even have to track down Anons, their short attention spans means they get bored and go back to griefing ordinary people on the Internet.

I was being serious, though. When Anonymous threatened the Mexican Cartels, the Cartels sent their own goons onto the internet to track down Anonymous members.

[Gauthier]

They probably don't even have to track down Anons, their short attention spans means they get bored and go back to griefing ordinary people on the Internet.

I was being serious, though. When Anonymous threatened the Mexican Cartels, the Cartels sent their own goons onto the internet to track down Anonymous members.

Occupy Wall Street lasted longer than Project Chanology. The most damage that Scientology has gotten to date was from Leah Remini spilling the goods.

Daesh won't even have to resort to hiring their own hackers to get Anon to stop. Just wade out the shutdowns of accounts like they usually do, and then short attention span does the rest.

[Ganos Lao]

I was being serious, though. When Anonymous threatened the Mexican Cartels, the Cartels sent their own goons onto the internet to track down Anonymous members.

Occupy Wall Street lasted longer than Project Chanology. The most damage that Scientology has gotten to date was from Leah Remini spilling the goods.

Daesh won't even have to resort to hiring their own hackers to get Anon to stop. Just wade out the shutdowns of accounts like they usually do, and then short attention span does the rest.

Well, their hearts are in the right place, at least, if only for a moment.

[Arkinesia]

When I go to my local bookstore (yes, I do that in 2015), and I take a gander at the current affairs section, I see a bunch of books about the Islamic State. I really wonder, what will my grandchildren think 60 years from now, when they're at a library and see all these books? “Gramps, did people really think a group with a military smaller than the city of Eugene, Oregon would take over the entire Middle East and was a major focus of Western military strategy?”

And I'll have to tell them that yes, yes people did think that. And I will have to feel the collective shame of the sheer infantilization of Western civilization.

[Ganos Lao]

When I go to my local bookstore (yes, I do that in 2015), and I take a gander at the current affairs section, I see a bunch of books about the Islamic State. I really wonder, what will my grandchildren think 60 years from now, when they're at a library and see all these books? “Gramps, did people really think a group with a military smaller than the city of Eugene, Oregon would take over the entire Middle East and was a major focus of Western military strategy?”

And I'll have to tell them that yes, yes people did think that. And I will have to feel the collective shame of the sheer infantilization of Western civilization.

Don't forget the shame of the sheer incompetance of Western civilization, as well as the fact that most of the Westerners who instigated the series of unfortunate events that led to the rise of the Islamic State (coupled with the locals in the region who also contributed) will be painted as heroes against/victims of terrorism rather than what they really were.

[Ganos Lao]

I should make mention that as early as July, perhaps a bit earlier, that already there is being mentioned the betrayal of the Kurds by the Western powers that be, the most recent I've seen being from September.

In fact, it is even being claimed that as far back as 2009 by three sources, Assad sent out feelers to Washington:

The Syrian government would be willing to turn over all of its intelligence files on Al Qaeda and linked terrorists and broadly cooperate on counterterrorism. In exchange, the Obama administration would ease up on its criticism of the Assad regime.

One of my sources, a former senior CIA officer who currently lives and works in Iraq, told me that the Syrians even offered a few choice samples from their files to demonstrate how serious they were, but the Obama administration wavered and the moment passed.

Would things have changed had the US accepted this deal?

[Seraven]

I should make mention that as early as July, perhaps a bit earlier, that already there is being mentioned the betrayal of the Kurds by the Western powers that be, the most recent I've seen being from September.

In fact, it is even being claimed that as far back as 2009 by three sources, Assad sent out feelers to Washington:

The Syrian government would be willing to turn over all of its intelligence files on Al Qaeda and linked terrorists and broadly cooperate on counterterrorism. In exchange, the Obama administration would ease up on its criticism of the Assad regime.

One of my sources, a former senior CIA officer who currently lives and works in Iraq, told me that the Syrians even offered a few choice samples from their files to demonstrate how serious they were, but the Obama administration wavered and the moment passed.

Would things have changed had the US accepted this deal?

Yes. At least it would put pressures on Al Qaeda and linked terrorists groups, forcing them to hide even deeper and losing some of their resources at the surface. Fewer access to resources and manpower and at the same time hunted by US-Syria coalition terrorist hunt groups certainly will change our future.

Except it's just a fantasy. A fantasy that's been put down permanently when the current administration at that time wavered.

[Gauthier]

I should make mention that as early as July, perhaps a bit earlier, that already there is being mentioned the betrayal of the Kurds by the Western powers that be, the most recent I've seen being from September.

In fact, it is even being claimed that as far back as 2009 by three sources, Assad sent out feelers to Washington:



Would things have changed had the US accepted this deal?

Yes. At least it would put pressures on Al Qaeda and linked terrorists groups, forcing them to hide even deeper and losing some of their resources at the surface. Fewer access to resources and manpower and at the same time hunted by US-Syria coalition terrorist hunt groups certainly will change our future.

Except it's just a fantasy. A fantasy that's been put down permanently when the current administration at that time wavered.

Only to be replaced by a terrorist group formed out of pissed-off rebels who see the U.S. as giving a thumbs-up to Assad gunning down protestors.

[Geilinor]

Only to be replaced by a terrorist group formed out of pissed-off rebels who see the U.S. as giving a thumbs-up to Assad gunning down protestors.

What are we supposed to do? IS is the bigger threat.

[Gauthier]

Only to be replaced by a terrorist group formed out of pissed-off rebels who see the U.S. as giving a thumbs-up to Assad gunning down protestors.

What are we supposed to do? IS is the bigger threat.

A Bigger Threat that just succeeded in YOLOing the entire world.

[Kraylandia]

I don't really seeing the whole anti-ISIS operation by Anonymous lasting long to be honest. I'm sure they have good intentions but it's not like they can actually do anything worthwhile.

[West Aurelia]

Lindsey Graham will introduce an AUMF against IS. The forever war.

[Kraylandia]

Lindsey Graham will introduce an AUMF against IS. The forever war.

Good.

[Gauthier]

Lindsey Graham will introduce an AUMF against IS. The forever war.

Good.

Because the United States is great at wiping out insurgencies.

[Kubra]

Lindsey Graham will introduce an AUMF against IS. The forever war.

man people who want boots on ground but hesitate on the matter of taking in refugees are weird as fuck
like taking in refugees and straight up invading are symbiotic policies.

[Kraylandia]

Lindsey Graham will introduce an AUMF against IS. The forever war.

man people who want boots on ground but hesitate on the matter of taking in refugees are weird as fuck
like taking in refugees and straight up invading are symbiotic policies.

Boots on the ground. Make it safe for Syrians. They don't have to come over here. Simple.