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originally posted by: LightningStrikesHere
a reply to: daaskapital
agreed , if the very act of killing innocent Muslims and non Muslims is an Act of disbelief according to Islamic teaching then
the ISIS are Not Muslims but rather very evil disgusting monsters , i would be the first to go and fight these sick #s
originally posted by: stumason
a reply to: Britguy
If you follow the money, it will lead back to Saudi and Qatar, not the West - as I said in another thread, banging the old "Its all the West's fault" drum is a bit boring now.
Saudi and Qatar backed them in Syria - where they have gained a lot of battlefield experience - to combat the Shia/Allawite alliance of Assad, Hezbollah and Iran.
It's a regional power play and sod all to do with the West. All you're doing by parroting that tired old line is showing an ignorance of the situation and an inability to think for yourself.
As usual though, the West will have to come to the rescue of yet another fratricidal and sectarian war somewhere in the globe, then get it in the neck after the fact as well for being involved.
originally posted by: yorkshireman
Does anyone have any idea what the size of the ISIS 'army' is?
originally posted by: Ismail
That's great over-intellectualisation right there.
"All you did was speed up the process". Don't make me laugh. The USA's war on the middle east has turned a very minor civilisational ajustment phase into a giant clusterfrack, and killed millions in the process. As long as you are able to carry on justifying that, by intellectually masturbating until you can minimise your soldiers role as international butchers, with a FAR GREATER body-count than all the terrorist groups on earth combined, then sorry, but to me, you are just as bad as these child-beheaders.
Guess what, if some random superpower came along to any persons hometown and blasted their house and family to small bloody pieces, most people would react the exact same way. They'd want revenge. And a gun. So they go to join the guys with guns, and because these people are mostly uneducated, they also lap up all and any religious hogwash they get fed. They wouldn't be acting this way if the US had left them with something to lose.
originally posted by: Ismail
originally posted by: criticalhit
a reply to: IamSirDrinksalot
The collateral damage caused by war when trying to kill an enemy combatant are not the same action as deliberately sawing off the head of a young girl.
To whom ? The little girl is still dead. Her parents still mourn her. They are still angry at those who took her from them. To them it is exactly the same. It is only in your mind that it is not, because you have the luxury of emotional detachement.
When you drop bombs on a residential area, you KNOW that you will kill civilians. Just because you are not doing it with a sword does not make it better. It only means that you can hide behind words like "collateral damage", because you didn't single out any one individual. The result is that ten times more people died in your bomb blast than by the terrorists sword. Neither of these evils are right, but one is killing a lot less human beings, I can tell you that.
originally posted by: Ismail
YOU ARE NOT THE GOOD GUYS WHEN YOU YOU KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN THE BAD GUYS.
Your bombs WILL kill more civilians than ISIS.
That suffering and misery WILL create more terrorism, and generate more hatred for the west.
Your interventionist policy IS the greater evil in this case.
You have no moral highground to stand on, and in turn, I invite you all to read some history books. Interventionism DOES NOT WORK, and I can assure you that no country has ever, ever, thrown billons of dollars away for humanitarian motives. If they had, world hunger would have ceased to exist long ago.
There is no point debating any further with you if you fail to understand this simple fact : another war will kill more people and generate more terrorism than doing nothing at all.
Have a nice thread.
originally posted by: violet
I don't want to see children being hurt, so I won't look.
I also will not look because I don't want to fall for any more lies from Americans finding a really good reason to attack Iraq and go to war. Hurting children is certainly going to do it.
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originally posted by: AlphaHawk
a reply to: DarknStormy
You say it yourself, McCain with what would become ISIS, anything to show he knew what they would become then?
Does anyone have any idea what the size of the ISIS 'army' is?