From CNN:
This isn’t a rhetorical question, I really can’t tell the players without a scorecard. But aren’t these guys some of the same Syrian rebels that McCain wanted us to arm just last fall?
No.
Of course they do. It’s McCain’s only solution to any problem.
You’re sending in the solicitors?
That’s not a bad idea, actually.
The western sense of right and wrong makes it very difficult for us to stand around on the sidelines and wring our hands impotently. “Something must be done!” is the way we react to every problem. Even when it’s not necessarily our problem/fight. Certainly not a fight we can hope to win without also causing great harm to those we try to help.
And the good guys become bad guys so quickly that it’s impossible to know if those you’re trying to protect are committed to living peacefully or just waiting for an opportunity to exact their revenge. Which is how things seem to go more often than not. Centuries of grudges are held and avenged when opportunities allow for it.
All we can hope to do is try to smother a local fire. Perhaps the right thing to do is to let it burn. But who wants to live with that decision? Evidently the EU and UK, that’s who.
That’s pretty much how it goes for anybody, you live and then you die. Does that mean we should all stop taking medication?
Bill them to death? 
Except the “indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza” exists only on your head.
Is there a sale on bad analogies today?
Yes, they can. My understanding (at this point) is the current airstrikes are at things like armored columns or gun emplacements, things that are clearly weapons/military. If that is the case then airstrikes can be effective.
Congratulations on the ethnic slur/call to genocide combo.
Just keep ignoring that there are true innocents caught in the cross fire there - it shows your true colors. Also, as others have pointed out, Hamas and ISIS are two completely different groups.
There’s talk of “humanitarian corridors” to allow the Yazidis to escape to a safer location, probably either in Turkey or where there are Yazidi communities elsewhere in the world.
Discriminate slaughter, then?
Well, I hope that works out. They’ll still be refugees, of course, but I guess that’s better than dying.
Initially, yes, they will be very effective and hurt ISIS. But ISIS will quickly change strategies and learn to hide in the general population. It’s a tactic they know very well. It will certainly impact their ability to advance and take new territory as easily as before, but they will turn to other, more discrete means.
Number of Israeli strikes on Gaza from July 8th to August 5th: 4,762
Number of Palestinian dead: 1,900 (at least half of them militants)
I would say that’s pretty “discriminate”.
Can you guys take your arguments about Israel to… a thread that’s about Israel?
So on average, an Israeli strike kills as many Hamas militants as non-combatants.
And those numbers look pretty good to you?
Fuuuckkkkk… :eek:
The Yazidi are refugees wherever they go, they have no safe territory. They are the one topic that both Shia and Sunni are in complete agreement. They have no territory, no army, no money, and no oil. They are geopolitically boned.
CNN is reporting that ISIS has put us on notice that they plan, Allah willing, to raise their flag over the Whitehouse. Somehow I think even Allah is laughing his ass off over that comment.
Admit it, everyone, who here had ever *heard *of the Yazidis before a couple of days ago?