The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread

[@SkitchP]

ST vs Ruddo is a feud I do not want to take a side in.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Lol. ST is the best. He knows I'm yanking his chain. Either that or is having a bad morning

[Simple Torture]

Ruddo is also great; you can take his side, skitch!

[LoathedVermin72]

Fuck all of you

[@SkitchP]

Ruddo is also great; you can take his side, skitch!

Whew. This has been troubling me for 2.3 minutes.

[Simple Torture]

Fuck all of you

I would say that this is a more accurate representation about how I feel for LV:

[jwfocker]

Fuck all of you

#respect

[nyquillyn]

Wow nobody has anything to say about that Hezbollah comment, huh? Well ok, carry on I guess.

Sorry, yeah, I meant to respond to this earlier.

I do think it's a bit ridiculous to portray Hezbollah as a force protecting Lebanon's "completely free society" when they've carried out well over 50 suicide bombings and clearly aided al-Qaida in various pre-9/11 attacks, including the 1998 embassy bombings.

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[Norah]

I'm just glad you all finally realize I'm better than you.

[LetMeSleep]

Is Turkey the key to all of this?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ?CMP=fb_gu

[ABNorman]

This thread has really exploded over the last few days.

[Norah]

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[verb_to_trust]

There is something about this guy's cheesing face that really bugs me.

[Strat]

Ted Koppel was on the Daily Show and totally frightened me. Cyber terrorism. Our grid will go down. For weeks, maybe months. He guarantees it.

Okay, off to the prepper thread!

[LoathedVermin72]

Oh well if he guarantees it

[Strat]

Have alternately lurked/abstained from this thread. Seems like the quality of discourse has been remarkably high -- way to go, RM!

I just wanted to mention that the recent Frontline special on ISIS in Afghanistan is crazy. Somehow this PBS cameraman was able to embed with them. The footage of them indoctrinating children is sickening, and the fundamental differences between ISIS and the Taliban are laid out pretty bare. But mostly it just illustrates so deftly what has already been said here and elsewhere: their agenda is built on a very foreign ideology to what most of us know, and it's being propogated in a region where that ideology alternately A) makes sense to people or B) the people don't have a system that supports their dissent.

Which frontline doc? I'd like to see.

[simple schoolboy]

Wow nobody has anything to say about that Hezbollah comment, huh? Well ok, carry on I guess.

Sorry, yeah, I meant to respond to this earlier.

I do think it's a bit ridiculous to portray Hezbollah as a force protecting Lebanon's "completely free society" when they've carried out well over 50 suicide bombings and clearly aided al-Qaida in various pre-9/11 attacks, including the 1998 embassy bombings.

Hezbollah does not have privilege and therefore should not be criticized. Hezbollah is just looking for a safe place in Southern Lebanon and we should support them in that effort.

[E.H. Ruddock]