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The-Mole posted:Winner of the Cold War sounds like some (Northern) Midwest football rivalry trophy that gets passed back and forth every decade or two. The United States should then proudly display the proposed CyHawk trophy on its mantel, then.
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Guys, remember back in the days when we were following hour-by-hour movements in Tripoli and Misrata and Sirte and things were really optimistic and looking up for the Arab world? Those were fun times. 
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Aug 18, 2013 23:42
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How much of this is Obama's own fault for the red line rhetoric? It seems to me that if he hadn't made the red line statements, that he'd have much more leeway in how to act here, instead of people hounding him for seeming weak now.
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Hong XiuQuan posted:I think one or two of his sons were probably better human beings than he was.
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Sep 5, 2013 13:40
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nebby posted:The Syria debate is a great way for me to filter out which of my friends are complete retards. Namely, those who have come down hard on a position without acknowledging the merits of the opposite case and consequences of their own. The way I generally see it, while there are arguments for both sides of should, I haven't really seen a compelling argument for can. It seems to me any action we could take there would either completely explode the region, or be completely useless.
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Sep 7, 2013 07:04
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Sounds a bit more positive than Egypt, though, with a union and not the military being the mediating party.
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Sep 28, 2013 19:15
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Brown Moses posted:Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar has also just resigned, and called on PM Erdogan to do the same. I also heard he claimed Erdogan knew everything that was going on, although I've not had that confirmed. I missed the thread for a couple of weeks; what is "everything" that he was aware of?
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Dec 26, 2013 01:22
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Brown Moses posted:This video shows Ahrar al-Sham sapping a building next to Aleppo Citadel Whoa. But I must have missed it: what is "sapping"?
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Feb 20, 2014 10:32
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Brown Moses posted:Supposedly State TV is claiming Jabhat al-Nusra will be launching Sarin and Chlorine false-flag attacks on Wad al-Dafy, Idlib, and Mork, Hama. will be? Are you saying that as shorthand for "plans to" or did they actually use the definitive phrasing "will be"? I'm not sure it matters either way, except to say "will be" implies they know exactly when and where, because, of course, they're the ones doing it.
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Apr 12, 2014 14:31
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TildeATH posted:Straight up racism. Today I learned all Muslims are of the same race, and all members of that race are Muslim.
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Sep 8, 2014 07:03
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The Iron Rose posted:Honestly I just get most of my news from the thread and mostly stay out of the arguments. What's the best way of doing this, since the arguments now make up roughly 100% of the thread?
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Sep 24, 2014 05:47
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One of the major libertarian points I picked up for isolationism is that, the U.S. entering the war severely tipped the balance. So instead of what would obviously (I never went deep into why) be a stalemate that led to a civilized and dignified peace, we ended up humiliating and destroying the Germans. A stalemate would never have led to Versailles. But, of course, this being speculation, we have no idea what it would actually have led to.
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Oct 21, 2014 13:52
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My Imaginary GF posted:Hundreds of millions? I see you're for a very broad definition of "everyone" and the colonial understanding of "Middle East." The countries of the peninsula alone are 70 million. Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, which are unambiguously Middle East, bumps that to over 100 million. Iran and Iraq? Another hundred million. Egypt? Eighty. Turkey? Eighty. Even based on a rather narrow definition (let's keep Turkey and Egypt out of it for fun) you're still looking at over two hundred million people.
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Oct 26, 2014 08:47
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You say "other" as if there's any culture that does find it acceptable.
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Cippalippus posted:There is one that has a substantial number of individuals devoted to killing others, often involving the death of the perpetrator himself. It's just a statistical fluke though, there is nothing to worry about : it's just a few hundred thousands of insulated cases here and there. You've gone from "children suicide bombers" to "people who kill people". Not exactly the same ballpark. My response was to the apparent assertion that there was a culture accepting of child suicide bombers; is it that you are unable to respond, or unwilling to own your words?
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Jan 14, 2015 00:13
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Cippalippus posted:It was just a rhetorical question of course. No culture accepts that, not even aum shinrikyo which is the closest thing you get to Sunni Islam. Nice retreat.
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Jan 14, 2015 00:26
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If I won Powerball I would totally be like Amhai.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:46
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fade5 posted:Well it's official, the Kurds are going try to connect the Syrian Cantons by going after the ISIL-controlled town of Tal Abyad, also spelled Tel/Tell/Tall Abyad, تل أبيض, or Girê Sipî in Kurdish, because everything in the Middle East has 5 loving spellings. I love these maps, but I can't figure out what the symbol with the grid of 16 crosses is? For example, there's a group of three halfway between Homs and Raqqa.
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Volkerball posted:Assad supporters are going full retard now. Yes? A quick google search shows those to be the proper dimensions of the BLU-82. However, that image must be from many years ago, because the last operational BLU-82 was dropped in 2008. So... your post confuses me, what does a Reuters image from probably 14 years ago have to do with Assad supporters?
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Feb 11, 2015 23:10
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Effectronica posted:
What the hell happened to this thread overnight?
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Torpor posted:I love these maps even though all the lines and colors are probably drawn randomly because there is no loving way to make a tactical map that accurate. I love these maps in part because they show the reality of day-to-day war. Normally with war, be it movies, games, news, whatever, we speak of the broad strokes - X captured the city of Y, or took this region. Rarely do we hear of lengthy battles over a single concrete factory, or over grain silos. Or the changing strategic significance of a single bridge (as I recall, ISIL dropped one span, but the coalition bombed the other to prevent ISIL from using it).
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Mar 24, 2015 15:03
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Volkerball posted:That's a funny thing to think when it's clearly not working. These bombings have been going on for like 6 months, and ISIS has lost effectively nothing. Its momentum? They were steamrolling, now they aren't. That may be coincidental to the start of the bombing campaign but they have indeed lost something.
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Mar 24, 2015 21:14
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Resettling the entire population of Iraq and Syria in Nebraska is not a solution to this. It's not like we're actually using Nebraska for anything. McDowell posted:I like how there was a thread about Partisan Girl in GBS and when I linked to some porns with a similar looking woman the thread died off. well cmon don't leave us hanging
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Mar 25, 2015 15:32
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:So.....how is Islam twisted to justify this? And to justify the mass acceptance of sex slaves? Religion plus mental illness is a hell of a drug.
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Aug 13, 2015 21:56
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What was the name of that English-speaking (I think she was American or British?) journalist who was so in the bag for Gaddafi during the Libyan Civil War? All I remember is she was occasionally interviewed on RT, and she enjoyed the term "tebels" [terrorist rebels].
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suboptimal posted:You're probably thinking of Lizzie Phelan. She filed that report from the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli as the city was falling to the rebel's surprise onslaught. Unsurprisingly, she's also in the bag for Assad as well, although IIRC I don't think she's doing much war tourism anymore. That's the one, thanks. I was wondering what she was doing these days.
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Sep 1, 2015 19:51
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fade5 posted:Joshua Landis did a cool article following the history of Liwa Thuwwar Raqqa: Honestly, is Turkey really a net positive for NATO anymore?
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Kaal posted:If the MSF is knowingly accepting Taliban patients then ... that makes them aiding and abetting a terrorist organization You are insane.
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Oct 5, 2015 20:42
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It annoys me this excludes Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Holy loving poo poo, indeed. How long have we been positive that he was dead? NBC says he was "abducted" in 2012, but was it imprisonment? So much yet to learn!
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