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LeftInTX

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16. Maybe total mistrust of Maliki???

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Wed Sep 3, 2014, 01:23 PM

Sep 2014

I get the impression there is no sense of compromise, so it is "dog eat dog" and they won't be happy until Maliki and the Shia are gone. And since we bombed them, they are retaliating.

Their terrorist acts aren't going to help them, but they're kinda like "doomsday preppers" and right wing paranoid militia nut jobs on steroids. They trust no one and it makes no sense to you and me.

(I could be totally wrong, but that is just my impression)

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Why is ISIS doing this? [View all] Takket Sep 2014 OP

My guess is they want the US as an enemy in open war. morningfog Sep 2014 #1

I think there are three reasons. NCTraveler Sep 2014 #2

I think that there are missing pieces to this story. You are right, it does not make sense. GoneFishin Sep 2014 #3

I agree. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #11

They want revenge... kentuck Sep 2014 #4

Please tell me you're being sarcastic n/t Scootaloo Sep 2014 #15

Many of the ISIS fighters are former Baathist Sunnis... kentuck Sep 2014 #19

Yes, their fanaticism is that great! vlyons Sep 2014 #5

OBL wanted to bankrupt the US, as Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviets Dems to Win Sep 2014 #6

In addition to the good points mentioned in #2 Lurks Often Sep 2014 #7

Maybe they want our troops back in Iraq? arcane1 Sep 2014 #8

That's exactly what they want, and we have lots of people trying to accommodate them tularetom Sep 2014 #9

If they kill any more Americans , I can see him sending in troops to kill ISIS. SummerSnow Sep 2014 #10

Should we engage them on their timetable CJCRANE Sep 2014 #13

There are over 1000 troops there, $7.5 million a day, morningfog Sep 2014 #22

Because our corporate overlords told them to. Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #12

Because it's what they're being paid to do 951-Riverside Sep 2014 #14

Maybe total mistrust of Maliki??? LeftInTX Sep 2014 #16

it's all in their guidebook nt msongs Sep 2014 #17

i don't think it's political for many of the members who have joined up JI7 Sep 2014 #18

It's a long chess game to set up a religious caliphate. haele Sep 2014 #20

They're begging us, in essence, not to throw them in the briar patch . . . . hatrack Sep 2014 #21