Where are all the captured ISIS fighters?
Anyone else wonder what they are doing with all the captured fighters who surrendered when over powered?
We have no room at the GITMO hotel and with little or no "American Boots" on the ground these fighters would not be our prisoners. I highly doubt the Muslim countries and opposition soldiers follow any form of a Geneva Convention so is it safe to assume ISIS fighters are provided a one way ticket to go meet 72 virgins who are out of this world?
We have no room at the GITMO hotel and with little or no "American Boots" on the ground these fighters would not be our prisoners. I highly doubt the Muslim countries and opposition soldiers follow any form of a Geneva Convention so is it safe to assume ISIS fighters are provided a one way ticket to go meet 72 virgins who are out of this world?
i trained muslim military pilots here in the u.s. while i was an instructor pilot in the Air Force...they commented they would do the same thing...pigs blood prevents them from going to paradise, having sex with 14 yr old virgins, and being served by us infidels for all eternity...
fight smarter not harder....
They are our mercenaries. We supply them, we give them free passage, etc... We hired them to take out Gaddafi, and now Assad. Why would we capture "our guys"?
Did you miss the whole oil tanker fiasco? After Russia called US out, we bombed a small convoy, giving the drivers ample warning to run away of course. And, why didn't we bomb any before Russia started doing so? Well, the answer from the State Department was we didn't want to cause "environmental damage". Right.....
That is why the high-up military brass went behind Obama's back and fed intelligence to Russia and Assad - they are sick of this crap.
I know this is a terrible thing to consider, but I can just imagine the people in Paris thinking the attack on the concert was all part of the show. Can you imagine the jihad walks in guns drawn, how many people thought, wow that looks very real. How many of us would wonder if a jihad extremist was real if we were to actually be approached by one, not to mention how would we know, many of them look like people we see everyday.
It's a complicated issue with many causes and effects but I still wonder exactly how much of this is pure, or impure, genetics.
Or when it's not domestic but foreign. Well let's wait for back up and UN approval and no need risking soldiers lives for people who don't care about their own.
I'm all in favor of your position. In the military and in the police I viewed as one less problem to interrupt my coffee and one less risk to interrupt my life.
Your choice. that's objectivism.
But his new law didn't limit it to a group certain just as it didn't limit arrest based on suspicion of supporting terrorism with no civil rights.
Thus sarcastic humor which I'm known for became something far more deadly than anything Tashfeen could accomplish on her own.
Gone to Gitmo everyone
When will they be returned
When will they....be returned.
Where have all the Gitmos's Gone
We've found a place and they are gone
Syria Is where they've gone
Christ's Militia took them everyone!
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Most ISIS members are prisoners from Saudi Arabia that were let go, being SA an ally of the States. So, come to think of it; it´s not as simple as it seems over there. There´s another Tale about the 9/11 "Terrorist" attack that´s just sinister, but probable too. And that whole Bin Laden-Bush tandem, plus that most of these well known terrorists were trainned by the CIA and other US Military Like dependencies....
....as I say, "Tales". But if you wanna can me on the whole Democracy bit, let me just remind you of another similar expedition to this strategic part of the globe, or Atlas (to be more in vogue with the group). Anyone remember the Crusades? I find it rather interesting to view things with historical perspective, since it´s a bit too soon to do so with the particular issue at hand. Yet, and mind you I´m calling these "tales" and not hard cold facts (there are alot to back them up of course, but let´s not get into that); isn´t interesting how to some this may be all just a very sofisticated game?
Don´t mean to ripple the pond here, just thoughts
See also: Protofeudalism
See also: Military campaigns under Caliph Uthman
Moors or Berbers...The rest is cloudy. However Saladin or Sa'lah Adin a Kurd kicked the europeans out of area now known as Lebanon, Israel, Jordan.
Most accounts do not have the invaders speaking Kurdish but Arabic. I found nothing to indicate sunni nor shia listing mostly Apparently there is nothing written that survives. There are 82 or so different sects in Islamic religion. Far less than other religions. Some were more powerful than they are today.
The primary group were Ummayad Caliphate.
Precisely what happened in Iberia in the early 8th century is uncertain. There is one contemporary Christian source, the Chronicle of 754 (which ends on that date), regarded as reliable but often vague.[1] There are no contemporary Muslim accounts. What Muslim information there is comes from later compilations subject to contemporary ideological influence.[2] The most prominent such compilation is that of Al-Maqqari, which dates from the 17th century. This paucity of sources means that any specific or detailed claims need to be regarded with caution.[3]
You can't prove anything. Prove it admit it. Other than you can't spell.Prove it.
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"Where did you find this?"
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Secondly was it Virgins or Virginians?
Hasta la later Comrade.
I´m the son of a diplomat, so I´ve been many places due to this fact. Professionally, I´m an Architect with a Post Graduate in Urban Planning, Urban Law and Landscaping as well (as well as History in Art and a bit of Physics also). Mind you, this doesn´t make me feel better than anyone though, I really value any person´s opinion and I find that average normal people have alot of insight and, primarily and most importantly; honesty. Anyway, I sincerely hope you´re alright and don´t worry, I´m not voting so you don´t have to convince me. I was just trying to see how orientated this cyber place was. Sorry for the delay too, it´s just that we all have our own fish to fry and well; mine are a complicated ex wife and a very small town, inferno like ordeal that has me very compromised since, as in all towns; envy goes a long way. Best of luck Mike !
Posting Maniac I'll accept....it's like boxing. After the final bell everyone goes out for lasagna together.
I'm testing a system used by a group called Secular Progressives I was actually going to put prove it one more time.
Most of them, by training cut and run earlier.I am also glad that you continued the verbal duel.
I liked Argentina. Along with Uruguay and Chile and Bolivia but I lived and worked in Central America and from their many places. Not in diplomacy. My major area is Political Science and the second level was International Political Science with a thesis on Revolutionary and Counter Revolutionary Governments of Latin America. One of the 'bibles' as a reference is the writings of Marighella.and there was some involvement in the 60's.
I have one good friend still in Guatemala a chicken farmer. who gave me a practical lesson on why the revolutions were all.... Cuban based called the only other game in town. ...My own government was actively supporting dictatorships leaving the Castro agents provocateur an open field when we should have been doing the opposite job. He showed me a well thumbed copy of our own Constitution and asked why we weren't exporting those ideals and leaving people only one other practical choice. he had a son in the Guatemalan Army and another son with the rebels. Serendipity - I had helped train both of them in Panama.
A valuable lesson ....
Feliz Navidad belated and Feliz Ano Nuevo.
Back to dueling? On a different subject perhaps?
I lived in Winnetka, Illinois as a kid. And in the DC Area as a teen. That´s how the language sticks to me. The spelling well, I´m bilingual but definitely rusty and out of practice. I had to also take French and, well; Italian is quite similar to the Rio Platense form of speaking (in acentuation, not much more. We have a very important Italic Peninsula inmigration and culture near Buenos Aires, not the rest of the country though). As for languages well, I don´t consider myself to be a great polilinguist. It´s more what was pitched at me than anything else.
As for the Middle East, I happenned to venture some regions after 2002. Syria, Jordan, Lebannon and well, Egypt as the African proximity. Nice people, but truly a very present regime to command their way of life. Yet every country, even every town really; is different in it´s own way. The obvious is that the English occupation of Jordan makes it a much more organized country, where the French influence of Syria is what gives it it´s characterisctic urban chaos (no offense to the French, but that´s just the way it is). Actually, Bashaar Al Assad never was meant to rule (a one party nation is even more ridiculous than the bipolar US trend). His brother died in a car accident and well, this odontologist or whatever his English Studies were meant to be had him become "president" by force.
The rest well, is a bit of everything. Perspective and a more realistic version of history can only be attained in time. And today well, tenfold really. Anyhow, I hope to read more of you and debate the righteous way more often. We´ll see what time has install for me. I´m only about to turn 38 so, I´m still in the trenches myself. Good to keep it up though, and make your acquaintance. (sorry for the spelling, I even have to reconfigure my keyboard and well; I am a lazy southerner, hehe).
All the best to You and yours !
I credit the primarily British division of the mid east after WWI with many if not most of the problems and their Mem Sahib attitude. Jordan is not a natural country but splitting Kurdistan and failing to realize the inherent culture and the shia/sunni/kurdish sunni split was a disaster. Recently compounded by it's continuance and failure to split Iraq which is not a natural country like Jordan. For some reason I admire the Kurds as a nation. When Bush failed to support that policy along with the usual French/British/German influence...it was a huge mistake but..nothing to be done now - possibly.
As for the USA? The word former comes to mind more often than not. What culture we did have has been shoved aside or forgotten.
The rule of history is 200-300 years per government system. It's a good observation.