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The thing about doing plan Libya on Syria a couple years ago is if we did that, it's very possible that right now the world would be watching Alawites and Shias getting put in ditches, and the caption on most TV screens would be, with some justification, "the US made this happen."
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 20:51 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:
How would Turkey invading with a real army, presumably to fight ISIS, help ISIS other than in terms of propaganda?
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 20:59 |
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IM_DA_DECIDER posted:How would Turkey invading with a real army, presumably to fight ISIS, help ISIS other than in terms of propaganda? Your presumption that they would be invading to fight ISIS is rather unfounded; they would be invading to advance Turkish national interests. Is fighting ISIS in the Turkish national interest? I have yet to see strong evidence of Turkey acting like so of its own volition. Turkey invades Kurdish Syria, controlled by PKK elements fighting ISIS. You don't see how that drives a wedge between PKK and Turkey, and how that will affect Peshmerga operaions?
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:07 |
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Xandu posted:So Iraq is now bombing ISIS with food, water, and ammunition. "In a video uploaded to YouTube Monday by the Executive Sharia Council in the eastern Daraa Region, an Islamic court established by Al-Nusra in southern Syria, Sharif As-Safouri, the commander of the Free Syrian Army’s Al-Haramein Battalion, admitted to having entered Israel five times to meet with Israeli officers who later provided him with Soviet anti-tank weapons and light arms. Safouri was abducted by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front in the Quneitra area, near the Israeli border, on July 22. “The [opposition] factions would receive support and send the injured in [to Israel] on condition that the Israeli fence area is secured. No person was allowed to come near the fence without prior coordination with Israel authorities,” Safouri said in the video. Israel has never admitted to arming moderate Syrian rebels, who have been engaged in battle against the Assad regime and its allies since March 2011. In June, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of Military Intelligence research, told the Herzliya Conference that 80 percent of Syria’s oppositionists are Islamists of various shades, indicating that Israel was reluctant to collaborate with them."
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:16 |
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Is this new? I hadn't seen it posted here:quote:The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:21 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Your presumption that they would be invading to fight ISIS is rather unfounded; they would be invading to advance Turkish national interests. Maybe they are willing to make an alliance with Kurdish elements to beat ISIL and redraw the borders that are already overwhelmed and contested. If it goes bad enough you could invoke Article 5
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:54 |
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The Turkish army is, bar none, the most formidable military force in the region. They could probably rough up the IDF for their lunch money. There is no way they'd get beaten in an open conflict by Daesh - the problem is, they'd suffer casualties, and opportunistic military types might use the situation for political purposes. This is a very delicate situation for the AKP.
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:57 |
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Too long to copy/paste here, but Foreign Policy released a super fascinating article about Qatar's foreign policy and the Arab uprisings. The TL; DR is basically "Throwing guns and money around and seeing who likes us when the dust settles" does not make for a good foreign policy.
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:23 |
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CNN had this images attached to a story about ISIS recruiters doing Q&A sessions onsocial media. Almost reminds me of this propaganda video of footage shot in the style of a Grand Theft Auto game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhbX0Kt9s_I
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:25 |
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Here's the RAF blowing up a £10,000 pick up with a £100,000 Brimstone Missile in Iraq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP83VclSJXA
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# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:27 |
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Brown Moses posted:Here's the RAF blowing up a £10,000 pick up with a £100,000 Brimstone Missile in Iraq Yes, this war isn't too cost effective, now is it? I wonder what the best means of cost-saving measures would be.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:07 |
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Brown Moses posted:Here's the RAF blowing up a £10,000 pick up with a £100,000 Brimstone Missile in Iraq When all you have is really expensive hammers ...
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:11 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Yes, this war isn't too cost effective, now is it? I wonder what the best means of cost-saving measures would be. Ask McDowell.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:11 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Yes, this war isn't too cost effective, now is it? I wonder what the best means of cost-saving measures would be. Reduce unemployment to the most minimal levels possible, and provide generous food subsidies.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:11 |
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double nine posted:When all you have is really expensive hammers ... You begin to sub-contract the labor to use less expensive hammers. E: Ardennes posted:Reduce unemployment to the most minimal levels possible, and provide generous food subsidies. Alternatively, define generous as 'no' and reduce unemployment to the most minimal levels possible now and in the future with no food subsidies.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:13 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Alternatively, define generous as 'no' and reduce unemployment to the most minimal levels possible now and in the future with no food subsidies. If you want that then you either have to provide A: a minimum wage law that works and is high enough to buy food or B: direct cash vouchers or food stamps.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:23 |
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Volkerball posted:Ask McDowell.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:28 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Yes, this war isn't too cost effective, now is it? I wonder what the best means of cost-saving measures would be. It'd be cheaper to do a strafing run, but if you lose the aircraft to a MANPAD you're going to wish you used the pricey guided missile instead.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:33 |
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CeeJee posted:Every time Gadaffi is brought up as a criticism of Western intervention it's assumed that without that intervention Libya would be A-OK as Gadaffi would have killed all the nasty rebels and restored order in Libya. While Syria shows even killing hundreds of thousands won't put down a rebellion. yea western intervention is great, the problem is we dont have enough of it *peels off funding narcoterrorist chaos layer* *peels off selling chemical weapons to pet dictator layer* *peels off to find - eek! - minimal Intervention and Pretty Good socialist development layer* *peels off again to find Late Victorian Steampunk Holocaust layer -- phew!! *
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:55 |
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Oh Jesus loving Christquote:The White House says it wants to work with Syria’s moderate rebels. But warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition came awfully close to striking one of their HQs.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 01:52 |
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Can't imagine why the US would be hesitant to coordinate with themquote:The coalition airstrike was targeting a base used by al Nusrah, the local al Qaeda affiliate. And the camp was, essentially, next door to the FSA facility. The al Qaeda fighters and the U.S-endorsed rebels were neighbors—and, at times, partners in battle against ISIS and the Bashar al-Assad regime.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 02:01 |
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Xipe Totec posted:Late Victorian Steampunk Holocaust Mods
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 02:10 |
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So what is FSA up to in all this? I assume FSA fighters forming coalitions with AQ fighters probably means "Trying to be not dead, not doing too great", but does anyone have a map or something of current FSA territory (or at least territory FSA currently holds and is not contested)?
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 02:16 |
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lol I'm sure glad the interventionism is working out great and completely avoiding the problems of all those other times
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 02:25 |
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Don't worry, if the airstrikes don't work, we'll have 5,000 US-trained troops who'll turn the tide of the war on their pluckiness, grit, truculence.. Maybe abandon their weapons and run upon meeting any real resistance, but at least we're trying, right?
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 02:50 |
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I`m sure that the FSA would try their hardest to get US planes to target regime forces. Very difficult to trust them when they want you to get entangled for their benefit.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 03:09 |
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Brown Moses posted:Here's the RAF blowing up a £10,000 pick up with a £100,000 Brimstone Missile in Iraq It gets even worse. http://news.sky.com/story/1342768/how-much-will-airstrikes-on-is-cost-taxpayer posted:According to a Ministry of Defence report to Parliament in 2010, each Tornado flight costs £35,000 per hour.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 04:12 |
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Niedar posted:It gets even worse. Well makes sense to try again since the last joint military venture with the USA went so well.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 04:18 |
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Gotta spend money to make money (for the military industrial complex)
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 09:27 |
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Miruvor posted:Don't worry, if the airstrikes don't work, we'll have 5,000 US-trained troops who'll turn the tide of the war on their pluckiness, grit, truculence.. Maybe abandon their weapons and run upon meeting any real resistance, but at least we're trying, right? Are you referring to the deployment of 1st ID headquarters? Because I don't know if you've ever been around a headquarters battalion or anything, but those dudes are definitely not there for fighting. That's where they send all the failures from the infantry units who nobody wants.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 11:27 |
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Iraq's New Prime Minister, apparently, wants Arab strikes against ISIS to end. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29447201
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 13:57 |
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2 car bombs went off in front of a school in Homs. 29 dead, 110 wounded. I'm guessing ISIS but I have no idea why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOHy44YFkWA&feature=youtu.be Edit: Joshua Landis saying it's an alawite neighborhood, but he's not exactly the most objective about that kind of thing. Still sounds like ISIS. "Show one photo of ISIS killing children! You can't, it doesn't happen! " Volkerball fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Oct 1, 2014 |
# ? Oct 1, 2014 14:14 |
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Niedar posted:It gets even worse. Wow I knew that there was real white privilege here but I didn't think it would show up in a way that posters here hold the belief that ISIS members (arabs) have no worth. Not even factoring that into your calculations of if using a 100k pound bomb is cost efficient or not shameful.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 15:48 |
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the panacea posted:Gotta spend money to make money (for the military industrial complex) The wonderful thing about america is that you too can make a profit from human suffering! https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:LMT
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 15:50 |
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AllanGordon posted:Wow I knew that there was real white privilege here but I didn't think it would show up in a way that posters here hold the belief that ISIS members (arabs) have no worth. I'm not defending a particular approach to breaking the back of ISIS, but arguing that advocating an organization's destruction makes a person racist simply because the majority of its members have a shared ethnicity is absurd. I don't doubt that posters in this thread who advocate military action against ISIS would advocate the same against Nazi Germany or the Khmer Rouge if they were still active threats.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 16:22 |
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What's the problem with killing ISIS members in a cost effective way?
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 17:21 |
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AllanGordon posted:Wow I knew that there was real white privilege here but I didn't think it would show up in a way that posters here hold the belief that ISIS members (arabs) have no worth. It's not a question of racism or privilege. The purpose of a weapon of war is to damage the enemy's ability to fight, either by killing the enemy directly or by destroying the enemy's weapons. In this respect, the worth of an enemy combatant's life is the worth that the enemy assigns to their combatants' life. If they're using suicide attacks to weed out raw recruits and claim in their propaganda movies that they love death, then that worth mustn't be very high. In any case it's easier to compute values for materiel. If you destroy a Toyota Hilux, you destroy a Toyota. Maybe it was parked and there was nobody, causing no victims. Maybe it was transporting fifteen combatants and they're all dead now. It's often hard to tell with an airstrike just how many casualties it caused.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 17:25 |
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AllanGordon posted:Wow I knew that there was real white privilege here but I didn't think it would show up in a way that posters here hold the belief that ISIS members (arabs) have no worth. Well thats great and all but I don't think we should be killing ISIS at all so im not sure how pointing out how spending a ton of money killing them is bad is white privilege.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 17:37 |
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Niedar posted:Well thats great and all but I don't think we should be killing ISIS at all so im not sure how pointing out how spending a ton of money killing them is bad is white privilege. Thanks for enabling GiP. Edit: Is your issue that you don't think the coalition-of-dwindling-goodwill should be involved because of policy implications or are you implying that it is somehow wrong to be killing ISIS members? Berke Negri fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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AllanGordon posted:Wow I knew that there was real white privilege here but I didn't think it would show up in a way that posters here hold the belief that ISIS members (arabs) have no worth. Interesting, would you like to take another dump in the form of words so I can smell that also?
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