Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Aug 24 2015 01:24am)

I didn't hear about them destroying the whole place (yet).
Some tombs and statues are destroyed though.

Anyway, this guy is a hero for humanity. If nobody protects our heritage, we lose a big part of who we are.


I guess not many people here care though.

Quote (IceMage @ 24 Aug 2015 15:04)

You can only get riled up so many times with ISIS. American leaders don't have the will to send ground troops, so these stories aren't going to end for the foreseeable future.

Maybe Belgium will step up to the plate? :D

Quote (IceMage @ Aug 24 2015 09:04am)

You can only get riled up so many times with ISIS. American leaders don't have the will to send ground troops, so these stories aren't going to end for the foreseeable future.

Maybe Belgium will step up to the plate? :D

Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Aug 24 2015 10:09am)

We don't have much of a military tbh.
Wouldn't mind us getting involved in a multinational operation, though.

Quote (IceMage @ 24 Aug 2015 08:04)

You can only get riled up so many times with ISIS. American leaders don't have the will to send ground troops, so these stories aren't going to end for the foreseeable future.

Maybe Belgium will step up to the plate? :D

Quote (Valhalls_Sun @ Aug 24 2015 11:14am)

What the honest f**k good are you going to do with ground troops against a guerrilla army that blends in with the civilians? If they can't accomplish a damn thing with 6,000 bombing runs all they are going to do is sacrifice American lives.

Quote (Valhalls_Sun @ 24 Aug 2015 04:30)

It's very easy to get mad at the members of ISIS but we need to look at the conditions that are breeding so many angry young Muslim men. What has happened to first enable Ai Qaeda and then ISL to become so successful at recruitment? The US. claims to have killed twenty thousand troops last year, yet also estimates their size to be the same.

Rather than lowering ourselves to the common denominator (killing, 6,000 bombing runs in 12 months) to try and solve the problem. which only seems to be a meat grinder of young Muslim men whom the ISL leaders view as dispensable and we westerners view as better dead than alive. Maybe we westerners should start to view those we are supposedly saving and those we are battling as people of value.