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ISIL Carries Out A Purge
SYSOP
3/1/2015 10:12:42 AM
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karlmaier
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3/1/2015 2:10:44 PM
I have been saying for some time that the Threat of ISIS is being way overblown. ISIS was just another Jihadist group until they captured all that material and treasure last summer. But how are they going to replace these resources when all run out? Here we are 8 months later and they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. They have cut troops pay, are experiencing internal squabbling over scarce resources, are going medieval on theft, face increasing desertion rates, and their own treasurer just made off with a million in cash. They will now lose more and more territory until they have consolidated down to a level supportable by their income.
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Nate Dog
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3/1/2015 7:07:48 PM
they were just a 2 bit jihadist group, as you said, and, as you said, they then acquired a big chunk of land, a big reputation and a big bank balance. Of course this makes them a major player.
The kind of major player that has single handedly created 2 million refugees, allowed Iran to not only control Iraq by proxy but now have troops stationed at every Iraqi cross roads. Have give rise (or re-rise) to sectarian conflict throughout the entire middle east. They are no 2 bit player any more. They've re-shaped the middle east for the next half century.
Hitler said he'd change Germany and make it unrecognisable. He wasn't lying. He took the most powerful European nation and in 5 years turned it into a desolate wasteland with 15% of its population dead. 70% in poverty.
Intentions aren't what matter, what happens in what matters. ISIL has reshaped the middle east.
I try and be liberal and put it down to poverty driving these ####'s. I care little for worldly matters, my job is to pay my way. I'm an avid student of history. It's the only thing i really care about studying. ISIL have now gone the Taliban route and are destroying every artefact that isn't muslim that they come across. Considering that Islam is only 1400 years old, and never produced much in the way of art, i could give 2 shits about the shit they preserve. Worst disaster all the really fascinating civilisations which we haven't yet properly studied, the Summerians, Akkadian, Hittietes, all came from what is now modern day Craplakistan (Iraq for short). ISIL is burning all that remains of them because we stupidly give it to the Arabs as caretakers of the region, because that happens to be where they currently defecate. That's great. Really. Great.
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keffler25
3/1/2015 9:14:42 PM
World Wars... especially slow motion ones destroy art and culture. It still torques me off that Italy, where HALF of current existent Human art and sculpture in 1939 was. (That's right; HALF, and most of that from the Renaissance era.) was the stomping grounds for the Germans and the Allies, who crawled up the peninsula. !/4 of Italian art was totally destroyed. Those armies in effect destroyed 1/8th of all Human art existent in the Italian campaign, that murderous 37 months of mountain warfare complete with partisans and a huge Italian civil war that followed the world war, that no-one ever talks about.
I will miss the Chaldeans, the Hittiites, the Achaneans, and even lost Israelite history because of stupid people who cannot respect the works of their predecessors.
I suppose that it's like the Spanish and the way they suppressed Aztec and Mayan civilization. It's lucky that the New World still hasn't had anything like the wars that the old world has had for the last six thousand years.
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