Queer Unit Formed Against ISIS

[Thermodolia]

Are we really playing Saddam apologist now? Really, guys?

Not so much the saddam apologist and more W was a idiot for invading Iraq

[Gloriana Americana]

Didn't realize owning half a country was 'basically dead'.

I'm sure that the recent dead will be overjoyed to hear that the bullet in their gut didn't count because ISIS is 'basically dead'.

They've lost Mosul, losing ground in Syria, and Baghdadi is dead; they're on the way out and fast. They're no where near the threat they used to be.

This just smacks of glory-hounding to me. Trying to get some attention for their pet cause by attaching themselves to a conflict that's pretty much in the last stretch.

Like America in WWI

The arrival of the U.S. Expeditionary Force was essential in preventing the German war machine, now reinforced with fresh troops coming from the now defunct Eastern Front, from overruning the weakened and demoralized French and British lines.

To ignore this is to ignore an important contribution to the First World War by the United States. The very first French troops we encountered were retreating for fucks sake.

Take your historical revisionism elsewhere, please.

Inb4Frenchcowardmeme

Ah, I remember when I was just on the first stage of taking the Ba'athpill

I've always thought that taking out Saddam was a dumb idea

It was. He was a disgusting piece of shit who deserved to die and Iraq has a chance at a better future now, but he kept the lid on the fundies.

We wouldn't have had to worry about any of that if we had aided the Soviets in Afghanistan though. Thanks, Reagan.

[Danceria]

Are we really playing Saddam apologist now? Really, guys?

Not so much the saddam apologist and more W was a idiot for invading Iraq

I just wish to crash the middle-east with no survivors, or leave them to fight over the scraps of oil.

[Conserative Morality]

Not so much the saddam apologist and more W was a idiot for invading Iraq

I mean the "Saddam was necessary" "things would be better with Saddam around"

UMN shitposting I understand, especially since he's not much for democracy to begin with, but everyone else? I thought better of this community.

[Benuty]

So....are they actually gonna go out and fight or what's the deal with this unit?

I mean I am being honest here when I say I wouldn't be surprised if some of them get caught, and thrown off of roofs.

[Gloriana Americana]

I didn't. We killed their leader in a drone strike and took back Mosul.

It can only go further downhill for them now. They've got entire rebel groups, the governments of both Iraq and Syria, and two superpowers gunning for them. They're fucked.

In 1944, even before Operation Overlord, the Nazis were fucked.

Didn't mean that there wouldn't still be millions of deaths, toil and struggle before the conflict was over. The ferocity of fighting in the last days of Berlin wasn't appreciably less lethal or intense than in Leningrad.

The Nazis were fucked the minute they declared war on the U.S. AND the USSR.

But I get your point.

[The East Marches II]

Are we really playing Saddam apologist now? Really, guys?

I-It's my hobby

Ya Saddam!

[Conserative Morality]

It was. He was a disgusting piece of shit who deserved to die and Iraq has a chance at a better future now, but he kept the lid on the fundies.

We wouldn't have had to worry about any of that if we had aided the Soviets in Afghanistan though. Thanks, Reagan.

Could've said the same thing about Assad until recently.

Keeping a lid on things just builds the pressure til it fucking blows.

[Benuty]

Not so much the saddam apologist and more W was a idiot for invading Iraq

I just wish to crash the middle-east with no survivors, or leave them to fight over the scraps of oil.

People in the fertile crescent have been fighting since before time began to be recorded. Hell humans have a track record of only having what 230 years of peace?

[Washington Resistance Army]

Forming a queer unit seems a bit unnecessary.

[Benuty]

Forming a queer unit seems a bit unnecessary.

Its also not wise broadcasting to the enemy, and their tradition of roof executions...

[Salus Maior]

Forming a queer unit seems a bit unnecessary.

It isn't if you want attention specifically for it.

[Conserative Morality]

I-It's my hobby

Ya Saddam!

You're different. You'd sell out the Iraqis for a Klondike bar under the justification that it would be a Klondike bar going to benefit good, honest Americans instead of foreigners who don't matter.

[The Krogan]

Oh cool, the resurrection of the Sacred Band.

[The East Marches II]

I-It's my hobby

Ya Saddam!

You're different. You'd sell out the Iraqis for a Klondike bar under the justification that it would be a Klondike bar going to benefit good, honest Americans instead of foreigners who don't matter.

DELET THIS

[Gloriana Americana]

Not so much the saddam apologist and more W was a idiot for invading Iraq

I mean the "Saddam was necessary" "things would be better with Saddam around"

UMN shitposting I understand, especially since he's not much for democracy to begin with, but everyone else? I thought better of this community.

Things wouldn't have been better, but he was necessary. I say this begrudgingly.

He was a necessary evil, but again we could have avoided needing him altogether if we had picked the better side in the Afghanistan war.

[Conserative Morality]

Forming a queer unit seems a bit unnecessary.

It's a propaganda move. Nothing wrong with it.

[Salus Maior]

Forming a queer unit seems a bit unnecessary.

Its also not wise broadcasting to the enemy, and their tradition of roof executions...

I imagine the guys these people are fighting alongside aren't the most friendly to homosexual lifestyles either.

It is the Middle East, after all. I wouldn't be surprised if there were reports of abuse of this unit by supposed allies in the future.

[Benuty]

Oh cool, the resurrection of the Sacred Band.

Good I always wanted to see the Macedonians slaughter them again.

[Bakhton]

Cool.

[Gloriana Americana]

It was. He was a disgusting piece of shit who deserved to die and Iraq has a chance at a better future now, but he kept the lid on the fundies.

We wouldn't have had to worry about any of that if we had aided the Soviets in Afghanistan though. Thanks, Reagan.

Could've said the same thing about Assad until recently.

Keeping a lid on things just builds the pressure til it fucking blows.

Eh, not really.

Saddam had control of his country, Assad clearly did not or there wouldn't have been a fucking civil war.

[Liriena]

Oh cool, the resurrection of the Sacred Band.

Sacred Band was best band. :3

[Benuty]

Its also not wise broadcasting to the enemy, and their tradition of roof executions...

I imagine the guys these people are fighting alongside aren't the most friendly to homosexual lifestyles either.

Hey nothing says saving your men's lives like human shields.

[Benuty]

Could've said the same thing about Assad until recently.

Keeping a lid on things just builds the pressure til it fucking blows.

Eh, not really.

Saddam had control of his country, Assad clearly did not or there wouldn't have been a fucking civil war.

He didn't have complete control of it especially after the Gulf War with those insurgency movements from the Shiites.

[Conserative Morality]

I imagine the guys these people are fighting alongside aren't the most friendly to homosexual lifestyles either.

Opinions in Rojava are mixed, I hear, on the subject of LGBT rights. The more radical members/fighters tend to have ties to things like the PKK and HDP and so have a more tolerant outlook than most of MENA, but there's still a lot of prejudice with most ordinary people despite an increasing willingness to discuss the topic.