ISIS is losing
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You can always increase those chances by joining the Kurds to fight ISIS.
I would seriously consider going.
Int'l anti-ISIS brigade: Westerners flock to fight for Kurds ? RT News
Canadian-Israeli Gill Rosenberg is reportedly the first westerner to join Kurdish female-only militia units. Photo from facebook.com
Go Canada!!! :canada:
Briton Jamie Read (left) reportedly fighting with Kurdish militia in Syria against the Islamic State. Photo from facebook.com
Wisconsin high school graduate Jordan Matson reportedly went to Syria to join the Kurds. Photo from facebook.com/jordan.matson.3
During the so called Millennium scare, a woman told me she was growing a massive garden and building a large root celar to keep her bounty in. She noticed that no one around her were making preparations and was worried that someone would come and steal her bounty, so she was thinking of buying a gun to protect herself. She asked me what I would recommend. I said a 357 Magnum. She said and then what? I said, when you get it, load the chambers, put the gun to your head and blow you freakin' head off, because, if you are going to live in fear, you are already dead.
We live in a country that, despite the constant barrage of negative fear mongering by the media, do not normally give a thought to terrorists attacking them on the way to work or the mall. If people did they wouldn't get out of bed in the morning or make plans for the future. The only time they think about it is when sum putz on the idiot box tells them to, but it is soon forgotten by the time the next commercial comes on telling them that their happiness depends on buying one more piece of useless shyte they don't need.
We live in a country that, despite the constant barrage of negative fear mongering by the media, do not normally give a thought to terrorists attacking them on the way to work or the mall. If people did they wouldn't get out of bed in the morning or make plans for the future. The only time they think about it is when sum putz on the idiot box tells them to, but it is soon forgotten by the time the next commercial comes on telling them that their happiness depends on buying one more piece of useless shyte they don't need.
All right mister youtube conspiracy guy. What are you doing about your fear?
You're biggest chicken sh-t on this site.
You're biggest chicken sh-t on this site.
I don't have any. Fear is your biggest enemy. I live with bears, cougars and wolves. The most dangerous species are humans who live in unjustified fear. They are completely unpredictable.
All Homo Sapien Sapiens are GMO. The the common DNA in all of us is alien. This is not our planet. Earth is the insane asylum of the Universe.
On the Impossibility of Fighting ISIS
Through the past 13+ years, the United States has fought a war of choice in Iraq, and has extended its original, fully justified punitive mission in Afghanistan into a war of choice (including a "surge") there. It has the world's most powerful and most expensive military and has won nearly every tactical engagement in each country. Yet in a strategic sense it has lost both wars.
Now it faces the challenge of the indisputably evil and brutal ISIS. Of the desirability of crushing ISIS there is no doubt. But after the previous commitments led to grief, people have looked back and asked, 'How could we ever have thought that [Tactic X] would have worked?'
It's worth trying to ask that question ahead of time with ISIS, as it was worth doing with Iraq. The cover story of our brand-new issue is a tremendous, thoroughly reported, vividly told analysis by Graeme Wood of the history, ambitions, strengths, and vulnerabilities of the Islamic State movement. I urge you to read it and think about its implications.
Along with Graeme Wood's story, please consider this shorter assessment by Kenneth S. Brower, a longtime defense analyst. He doesn't agree with Wood on everything, but in the areas both of overlap and of differences I think you'll find these essays clarifying and valuable.
A central argument of my "Tragedy of the American Military" article was that because Americans "honor" their military but don't really take it seriously, we repeatedly send our forces on missions at which they're destined to fail.
The "easy" part of dealing with ISIS is agreeing on its horror. The difficult part is thinking ahead five steps, about what the use of military power can and cannot do. Wood's reporting and Brower's military analysis are valuable steps in that direction.
On the Impossibility of Fighting ISIS - Atlantic Mobile
Through the past 13+ years, the United States has fought a war of choice in Iraq, and has extended its original, fully justified punitive mission in Afghanistan into a war of choice (including a "surge") there. It has the world's most powerful and most expensive military and has won nearly every tactical engagement in each country. Yet in a strategic sense it has lost both wars.
Now it faces the challenge of the indisputably evil and brutal ISIS. Of the desirability of crushing ISIS there is no doubt. But after the previous commitments led to grief, people have looked back and asked, 'How could we ever have thought that [Tactic X] would have worked?'
It's worth trying to ask that question ahead of time with ISIS, as it was worth doing with Iraq. The cover story of our brand-new issue is a tremendous, thoroughly reported, vividly told analysis by Graeme Wood of the history, ambitions, strengths, and vulnerabilities of the Islamic State movement. I urge you to read it and think about its implications.
Along with Graeme Wood's story, please consider this shorter assessment by Kenneth S. Brower, a longtime defense analyst. He doesn't agree with Wood on everything, but in the areas both of overlap and of differences I think you'll find these essays clarifying and valuable.
A central argument of my "Tragedy of the American Military" article was that because Americans "honor" their military but don't really take it seriously, we repeatedly send our forces on missions at which they're destined to fail.
The "easy" part of dealing with ISIS is agreeing on its horror. The difficult part is thinking ahead five steps, about what the use of military power can and cannot do. Wood's reporting and Brower's military analysis are valuable steps in that direction.
On the Impossibility of Fighting ISIS - Atlantic Mobile
It is a policy of mine, when dealing with crazy people, I get crazier. Obviously the tactic is working. Look how crazy it makes you to read my posts.
You have no empathy for anybody. You don't care that there is an epidmic of respiratory diseases and other ailments caused by inhaling fossil fuel fumes. You don't care about any humans or other species who are adversely affected by oil exploitation, pipeline leaks or trains exploding. All you care about is your pocket book and maintaining your lifestyle in the slums of Regina. You can BS some people some of the time......
Is your record stuck?
There might be one or two like that on the forum, Cliffy, but I think the rest of us are fairly safe.
Anyway no use "borrowing" trouble!