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HassleCat

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1. Pretending

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sat Nov 7, 2015, 03:18 PM

Nov 2015

It's convenient for us to make believe they are some kind of highly organized, monolithic enemy, with tight leadership, a battle plan, a grand design, specific goals, etc. That makes it much easier to get $500 million dollars to train a couple dozen insurgents, who immediately surrender and hand over their weapons.

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Would you tell me about ISIS/ISIL because my knowledge is not up to date, thank you. [View all] uppityperson Nov 2015 OP

Pretending HassleCat Nov 2015 #1

Toyota's No. 1 Customer for Pickup Trucks. nt CJCRANE Nov 2015 #2

More like our Dept of Defense OxQQme Nov 2015 #3

Call them Daesh, instead Electric Monk Nov 2015 #4

That is interesting, thanks for the links. I will refer to them as Daesh uppityperson Nov 2015 #6

Maybe you should start back in January 2014 - you have a lot of catching up to do muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #5

Thank you, I'll go read them. I have been busy elsewhere this yr uppityperson Nov 2015 #7

bombing them won't help. its a cultural movement, killing a bunch isn't going to kill the movement. KG Nov 2015 #8

Fighting over land is 1 thing, over ideology is another. Now it seems they have both. uppityperson Nov 2015 #9

Their most effective attack (and why they can't be stopped by Arab armies) are dump truck bombs LittleBlue Nov 2015 #10