Death to all Ethnics!
Why be worried? Try thinking for a moment. I realize it will be a new and unusual experience for you, but I’m willing to help. I’ll try to keep the words simple and I’ll type r-e-a-l slow so you can follow along without moving your lips too much.
Here’s what I said originally:
#1. Note that I redacted the supposed racial slur so that all you easily offended assholes don’t get your shorts in a knot for a second time. But stop and think (if you can) for a moment: you people would not hesitate to call me a redneck - several of you have in the past - so why all the fuss? Oh, because libs. What’s okay for you to do isn’t okay for others. But that’s typical. Moving on…
#2. Let’s look at some facts and then draw an analogy.
Fact 1: Palestinians have been shooting rockets at Israel since 2001. They have killed Israelis with them and disrupted daily life in Israel.
Fact 2: Israel has shown tremendous restraint. They have repeatedly asked Hamas and Friends to stop.
Fact 3: The people in the areas where the rockets are being launched from have not taken action to stop these attacks. The logical (and I know you libs hate that word) conclusion from this is that they support and encourage the attacks.
Now, let’s do an analogy. Can you say analogy? I knew you could.
Suppose that you are confronted with an individual who has repeated punched you in the face, or at least attempted to. That individual has now doubled up his fist and pulled it back yet again. Are you going to stand there with blood on your face and ask him to not do that again, or are you going to fight back?
Perhaps a better analogy: You and some friends are confronted by a group of people all wearing masks wrapped around their heads. Someone in the crowd throws a rock at your group. Most times you can dodge, but the occasional rock gets through and hurts someone. You can’t tell who’s doing the throwing, but no one in the other group is making any effort to stop them. Are you going to stand there with blood on your face and ask them to not do that again, or are you going to pick up your own rocks and respond?
This is the point that I made which you jackasses totally overlooked. I am predicting that in the near future, Israel is going to draw a line in the sand, so to speak, and announce that if even one more rocket is fired, they are going to saddle up and ride in. And when they ride out, nothing will be standing and nobody will be living. It will be pure self-defense on their part. Tragic but necessary.
Oh, and by the way, Knorf…fuck off. You despise me because I think and you don’t. Deal with it.
- Redneck is not a racial slur, the word you used is.
- ISIS is still not operating anywhere near Gaza.
Not in evidence.
Carerful guys, Clothy knows karate.
Shafi’i mostly. Hanbali is mostly associated with Arabian Wahabis, principally in Saudi Arabia. Hanafi is the most common, which may have been what you were thinking of.
Of course there are plenty of Kurdish religious minorities - the aforementioned Yazidis, Ahl-e Haqq, Alevi Shi’a, more normative Ithna’ashari Shi’a, even a few Jews ( most of them in Israel these days ).
Clothy- You are not entirely without a point, but it is worth noting that women and especially children who are hiding in a school when it gets blown to smithereens can’t especially be considered supporters of Hamas who are either 1) responsible for stopping Hamas’ actions or else 2) deserving death. Yes, they brainwash even some of their children with the Death to Israel bullshit, but they are still basically helpless children repeating what they’re told.
Also, even if Israel gets completely fed up and decides to do something (more) drastic, I don’t think it will be so black-and-white as killing every person in Gaza, if for no other reason than that the desired effect would be achieved long before it comes to that. Plus, such an action is going to stir up the hornet’s nest around Israel even more than it is already- they can’t really get away with such a move, and I don’t personally think they are stupid enough to try.
+1 to the point that ISIS is not operating in Gaza AFAIK.
Now, please stop referring to people as ‘ragheads’, here or elsewhere. It only makes a tragic and volatile situation worse, it is dehumanizing, and in conjunction with your seeming support for genocide, carries an uncomfortably Final Solution vibe. Be a little more sensitive.
You can see some inklingsof the “desired effect” already.
Getting back to Iraq, the IS is rumoured to be preparing an attack on Kirkuk. Maliki has stepped down. The IS have had some small skirmishes with resentful local sunnis. In Syria IS are quickly approaching Aleppo, where Assad’s forces and the other rebel groups are bickering with each other. They claim other rebel groups have raped some of their women, so when IS inevitably defeat the small and scattered forces ranged against them expect slaughter.
If I cared about you more than, say, how much I care about infected cysts on the ass of diseased yak, I’d be worried about your alarming disassociation with reality.
You did, in fact, without apology make use of an ethnic slur, just as an example. Your warning was deserved.
There’s another word you apparently don’t know the meaning of, “think.” You’ve not demonstrated any particular ability as far as that word is concerned: on the contrary, a disturbing lack thereof.
Them taking Kirkuk can’t happen, and I expect, won’t happen. We have the power to eradicate ISIS whenever they try to rear their heads as a conventional army. That’s the limitation of insurgency or guerilla warfare: you can only take friendly ground. Kirkuk is not friendly ground for ISIS, so they have to mount a conventional offensive to take it. Such an offensive will not be allowed to succeed.
I take it you’ve never heard of Hue? Dien Bien Phu?
Oh, yeah?! Well I know kung fu, tae kwon do, and 17 other dangerous words!
Not nearly as deadly as “Gee. honey, your sister sure is hot!”
Vietnamese taking over Vietnam isn’t the same as an Arab militia trying to take a diverse, hostile city conventionally with no air cover and a hostile air force bombing them out in the open.
Their main base and theatre of operation is in Syria. The Kurds won’t go after them there and us attacking them will be implicitly siding with Assad. And yeah - we could bomb flat any city they occupy and send the Kurds in to retake it. Unfortunately that is precisely what they want us to do. Prove that we and the Kurds are the monstrous enemies of the Sunni.
Meanwhile the rest of Iraq is complaining we’re doing nothing about ISIS assaults on Baghdad or giving the Iraqi ‘Army’ more stuff to abandon at the first sign of trouble.
How about the bloody Saudi’s doing something? It’s not like they haven’t got a very large and extremely well equipped army and air force. About time they used it if they’re so concerned about things. They can’t all be tied up protecting civilisation from women drivers.
For which side?
Indeed, but as they appear to be all shocked at ISIS they can go after them. I know their whole military is just a recycling petro-dollars kind of thing but it’d be nice if they’d pull their weight every now and then.
They could start by cutting this kind of shit out.
As usual the Saudi’s are playing us like a fiddle.
Ahem I see. So Vietnamese insurgents successfully taking over diverse, hostile cities and defeating first world armies in open combat conventionally with no air cover and a hostile air force bombing them out in the open does nothing to undermine your absurd notion that “[t]hat’s the limitation of insurgency or guerilla warfare: you can only take friendly ground”. And since it would require a conventional battle, magical thinking that “[s]uch an offensive will not be allowed to succeed” will miracle it to be so.
The Kurds are in fact mostly** Sunni**. It is bad journalism that keeps talking of the sunni versus the shia versus the Kurds. The difference is the arabism. The DAISH are arab supramacist in their takfiri salafism. The kurds dislike principally the arabism.
Yes, but the Kurds are also more secular. FFS you can buy beer and liquor in some of the grocery stores in Irbil and no one bats an eye. You’re not doing that in Baghdad or the rest of Iraq, because the store would get blown up or machine-gunned. /shrug
Regards,
-Bouncer-