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Aug 27 2021 01:13pm
Quote (thesnipa @ 27 Aug 2021 21:10)
id have been more inclined to agree before a young group of ISIS wannabe militants in Kabul bombed and airport and killed many people.

im fearful of what younger and more brash rank and file soldiers will do moving forward.


Well, there is no one-to-one relationship between the number of soldiers that terrorist groups have and their capability to carry out bombings. So the question should be if droning will cause islamists to become even more radical rather than if it will breed a larger number of them.
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Looks like we have another democrat anti-thinking activist.


Yes decades of bad policies concentrated in one word Obama did it. Thank you Professor.
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Well, there is no one-to-one relationship between the number of soldiers that terrorist groups have and their capability to carry out bombings. So the question should be if droning will cause islamists to become even more radical rather than if it will breed a larger number of them.


additionally will the average age of them make them more radical and likely to attack?

from what i know about terrorists that's a resounding YES.

we're making more of them, we're making them more radical and vengeful, and we're increasing the chance they attack. all by droning instead of boots on the ground or simply withdrawing during the Obama years in more earnest.
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Aug 27 2021 01:38pm
Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 27 2021 10:24am)
imo the biggest Obama gaffe was the drastically increased use of Drones. it gave extremists a faceless truly evil enemy to rally troops behind.

understandable in a way given that it severely decreased US troop death tolls while keeping up the pressure on enemies, but holy shit did it guarantee we'd have a perpetual enemy.


How else do you suggest killing people who need to die?
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How else do you suggest killing people who need to die?


alternate air dropping in guns for ISIS and the Taliban until the population reaches such a low point they can't repopulate effectively.

close in the border with more conventional modern arms to create a giant UFC octagon out of Afghanistan.
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Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 27 2021 03:43pm)
alternate air dropping in guns for ISIS and the Taliban until the population reaches such a low point they can't repopulate effectively.

close in the border with more conventional modern arms to create a giant UFC octagon out of Afghanistan.


>Make it Pay Per View on ESPN
>Profit

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 27 2021 03:38pm)
How else do you suggest killing people who need to die?


Use the same airport security that Israel uses.

And steal Afghanistan's resources.

Who cares about them? Let them love their camels.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Aug 27 2021 02:28pm
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Quote (thesnipa @ 27 Aug 2021 21:23)
additionally will the average age of them make them more radical and likely to attack?

from what i know about terrorists that's a resounding YES.

we're making more of them, we're making them more radical and vengeful, and we're increasing the chance they attack. all by droning instead of boots on the ground or simply withdrawing during the Obama years in more earnest.


I think you're vastly overestimating the degree to which islamists are motivated by personal experience with drone strikes as opposed to islamist propaganda and their daily exposure to chaos, poverty and misery.
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Quote (Black XistenZ @ 27 Aug 2021 23:11)
I think you're vastly overestimating the degree to which islamists are motivated by personal experience with drone strikes as opposed to islamist propaganda and their daily exposure to chaos, poverty and misery.


oh really? what are you basing that on? anything real, or is it exclusively your desire to excuse western imperialism?
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Aug 27 2021 04:06pm
For an official picture thread there aren't many pictures.
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Aug 27 2021 04:09pm
Quote (Calipso @ Aug 27 2021 06:06pm)
For an official picture thread there aren't many pictures.


1000 words are worth a picture
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