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US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria
Taco Cowboy writes The United States of America has launched airstrikes, along with some of its Arab partners such as Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, against ISIL targets in Syria. ... Before the airstrike was officially announced to the press, a Syrian man living in Raqqa, Syria, tweeted about the bombings and the sounds of air drones all over Raqqa. ... Tomahawk missiles were launched from USS Arleigh Burke in the Red Sea. Stealth fighters such as F-22s were also involved in the strike.
I watched that speech recently. If anyone in history could have his words called prophetic, it would be him, and those words would be that speech. For as radical and terrible as what he described was; the truth is he never dreamed the real extent of it. He had no way to see that the model he so rightly feared would be replicated and used again to create a permanent prison population..... do you think he had any idea that he was only a prophet of the tip of the iceberg?
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
They can. But more than likely they were used to paint targets with their "mini AWACS" onboard. Its the only reason I could see them using raptors instead of a true bomber.
The theory is that this sort of military action makes a point in response to ISIL's activities.
Ironically, the Sunnis and Shia in the region were better kept in check under Saddam's former regime, than they ever will be in a post-invasion government. Western policy makers seem to have a difficult time understanding this, but there is no separation of church and state for these people.
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I'm not saying we should consider them legitimate or anything of the kind. But claiming that they are "not Islamic" sounds like claiming that the child molesting Irish priests weren't Catholic.
Ezekiel 23:20
They're upset we left the area at all since that is what allowed events to play out to this point.
They are Muslims, extreme and aberrant but Muslims, just as Phelps and crew are aberrant Christians (albeit not murderous). As for legitimacy, name them, make them a legitimate target and bomb them to oblivion. If you don't make them legitimate, some group of squealers will claim we're waging war against civilians.
That is the big problem from North Africa to the Middle East: quelling sectarian unrest between all kinds of religions apparently needs a dictator.
Well sure and I had no real issue with Bush Sr. going into Iraq at the invitation of neighboring Arab countries. We went in with a clear objective and when that was complete we withdrew, told Saddam what he had to do to keep us from coming back and left with the approval of the international community. And whatever anyone's feeling on Saddam was he was the recognized sovereign leader of his country, not a terrorist leader announcing the creation of a new state in other countries' territory. He was an evil man and I was not sorry to see him go but my and others' emotions toward the man are not legal justifications for war.
The second time around the initiative was predicated on lies and innuendo about terrorism and Bush's "bring Democracy to the desert" was obviously not well defined or planned, thus the situation we have now. Both democrats and republicans have plenty of blame to share when it comes to F'ing up in the ME but I stand by my statement that what Obama doing now is not really comparable to what Bush Jr. did then.
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No, but I have never seen a suicide bomber that was anything other than Muslim. Nor have I seen any Budist or Jews or Christians or Athiest or Hindu actually attack schools full of children like what happened in Beslan. Tht was done by...Muslims.
Buildings in Russia destroyed by...Muslims.
Malls being shot up by...Muslims.
Athletes being held and killed by...Muslims.
Planes being hijacked by...Muslims
Beheadings being done by...Muslims.
The pattern indicates Islam to be a problem.
Yeah, but they need Allah to back them up so they don't all dissolve into Western-style guilt trips and require Vitamin P to live with the inner demons they've created or themselves. It is sort of the Flip in Flip Wilson, i.e., Allah made me do it.
This Allah, he's a funny guy, never says squat, can only communicate through angels and then via dreams. Doesn't bestow riches or anything on this dirtball planet. Yet legions are running around claiming anything they do is because Allah wills it. Allah at this point is indistinguishable from Satan.