The strategic value of compassion: Welcoming refugees is devastating to IS

[Cliffy]

Bollicks!
What would ISIS care how many refugees flee them? There's always more to spare. The refugees are aiding ISIS by providing a cover for their agents to sneak into other countries.
If the majority of refugees actually are fleeing ISIS, ISIS will follow them.
If 20 terrorists sneak in with 3000 refugees, one terrorist can kill 150 at one whack, that means 20 terrorists would wipe out all 3000 of them with some to spare as a bonus.

Baaaa! The truth is too hard to swallow, eh! Propaganda goes down better with your mourning coffee.

 

[DaSleeper]

And Conspiracy theories tend to be constipating...........

 

[Ludlow]

It really is hard to know what the right things to do are. There's an old saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". You may think you can make a huge positive difference in your actions but sometimes you can make a bigger positive difference by your inactions. You just can't fukkin know. I do hate to see the refugee children have to be dislocated and disoriented. I've been through a little of that myself but not to this degree. It's just a fvcked situation all the way around.

 

[tay]

Bollicks!
What would ISIS care how many refugees flee them? There's always more to spare. The refugees are aiding ISIS by providing a cover for their agents to sneak into other countries.
If the majority of refugees actually are fleeing ISIS, ISIS will follow them.
If 20 terrorists sneak in with 3000 refugees, one terrorist can kill 150 at one whack, that means 20 terrorists would wipe out all 3000 of them with some to spare as a bonus.

I can agree that ISIS nor Assad care about where the refugees end up. It hasn't seemed to bother any of them that there are over a million refugees living in Camps for the last 4 years.

But for ISIS or other agents to have spent 4 years in a squalid refugee camp just in case the get they chance to come to another Country elsewhere in the world would require extreme dedication on behalf of these 'agents'......

 

[CDNBear]

I can agree that ISIS nor Assad care about where the refugees end up. It hasn't seemed to bother any of them that there are over a million refugees living in Camps for the last 4 years.

But for ISIS or other agents to have spent 4 years in a squalid refugee camp just in case the get they chance to come to another Country elsewhere in the world would require extreme dedication on behalf of these 'agents'......

Hmmm, the dedication needed to wait 4 years vs the dedication needed to blow yourself up.

Hmmm.

 

[davesmom]

I can agree that ISIS nor Assad care about where the refugees end up. It hasn't seemed to bother any of them that there are over a million refugees living in Camps for the last 4 years.

But for ISIS or other agents to have spent 4 years in a squalid refugee camp just in case the get they chance to come to another Country elsewhere in the world would require extreme dedication on behalf of these 'agents'......

What makes you think they have spent the last 4 years or even 4 months in a camp with the refugees? It would be easy to sneak into a crowd like that at any time. Have you watched the pictures on tv? Some of the refugees come with nothing but the clothes and possessions they can carry in a bundle. Others (mostly able bodied young men) come with state of the art western style clothing, new looking luggage, baby strollers, robust and healthy looking and waving their fists in the air shouting "Allah Akbar!) They sure as hell don't look like refugees.
C'mon! ISIS has a thousand tricks up their sleeves. We shouldn't be naïve.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Musical interlude.

Great tune. Made this topic worth reading .... almost.