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CJCRANE

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7. FWIW I think the Iranians have a more hardcore mindset than the Iraqis.

Reply to MADem (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 12:14 PM

Sep 2014

Don't forget the Iraqi army melted away after "shock and awe". They preferred to go home rather than take a fatalistic last stand.

I have an acquaintance who is an Iraqi Kurd who told me about the Iran/Iraq war. He said that thousands of Iranians marched hundreds of miles into his region, many of them didn't have any modern weapons, just bare hands or farm implements but they just kept coming, wave after wave.

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That seems sane. n/t Tom Rinaldo Sep 2014 #1

We don't understand the "human shield" thing. It is de rigeur over there, though. MADem Sep 2014 #2

The Ukrainians bombed civilians. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #3

Believe me, it IS a unique mindset. MADem Sep 2014 #4

I agree there is a different mindset CJCRANE Sep 2014 #5

I am speaking culturally and historically, and most definitely religiously. MADem Sep 2014 #6

FWIW I think the Iranians have a more hardcore mindset than the Iraqis. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #7

It's more shi'a-sunni than Iraqi-Irani, I think. MADem Sep 2014 #8

Because the west does not value the lives of Arabs and muslims Scootaloo Sep 2014 #9

The Bundy ranch idiots even thought their own wives were expendable arcane1 Sep 2014 #10

No. It's just a cultural difference. MADem Sep 2014 #15

I think you missed hte crux of my point... and sort of underlined it, actually Scootaloo Sep 2014 #17

Very true. JDPriestly Sep 2014 #14

So you're saying the new Iraqi PM has a Western mindset? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #18

Smart move. Step one to eroding support for ISIL geek tragedy Sep 2014 #11

This is good. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #12

deserves the Nobel Peace Prize ... quadrature Sep 2014 #13

Thats good. They took a lot of woman/children as part of their looting of towns. Sunlei Sep 2014 #16