All the rhetoric and pandering to hate-mongers coming from the GOP contenders certainly has a tinge of opportunism and deliberateness to it.Originally Posted by chassamui
I was hoping to not stoke the fires of conspiracy, but if the policy of attacking ISIS with military might in the muslim heartland was in any way a sop to the MIC, it would become a double whammy against the west.
The USA and Europe have substantial interests in the sales of military hardware and software to the ME.
Maybe if either Allah or the Christian God exist, it's about time he or she showed up and said hello.
A more intelligent World would designate a time and place for "god" to prove his or her existence and immediately dismantle all religion for any entity that didn't show up.
The fiction of religion has always been a convenient tool for controlling the masses but now it's doing more harm than good.
He/She/They/It is the worst kind of absentee landlord.Originally Posted by BobR
Agreed.
Cutting a persons throat is one quick way of ending their live. Dropping bombs from air planes, firing missiles at civilians, starving people ... are less efficient and have "collateral damage" implications. Destroying hospitals/schools, poisoning water supplies take a little longer.Originally Posted by HermantheGerman
Western citizens apathy, blindness and covetousness.Originally Posted by chassamui
Originally Posted by ENT
I think there are sufficient examples of ignorance (blindness) and denial by posters on here to demonstrate the size of the problem.Originally Posted by OhOh
Surely apathy can be ruled out at this point? Just talking to a Thai friend who likes to holiday in Europe or the US every year. This years plans on hold for some reason.
[quote=chassamui;3236209]Agreed. The only way it could be worse is if they were doing so deliberately.
There does seem to be a general antipathy among western nations to put boots on the ground, yet they maintain quite high profile air attacks to avoid western casualties.[/quote]
The "west" chooses to target whichever group can progress their agenda. It's nothing to do with religion. The religion label allows the west to create a fear, in it's own citizens minds, of certain labelled group of human beings. This fear then needs to be diminished. How is it diminished? By cutting back on agreed citizens rights and spending borrowed money on providing a force to be display only, not to be used in an effective manner. That may change now another group have shown the world what can be achieved, not promised, not planned but achieved in a short time.
The "us vs them" is an illusion. ISIS does not have an agenda, other than killing all those which oppose/kill/maim/massacre them. The "propagation" is funded/trained/armed/fed/watered by the western politicians backed by propagandised/ignorant western voters.
ISIS isn't selling anything, the western leaders are either allowing content to be displayed or is actively involved in it's creation, video and content. Any item could, if desired be taken down immediately, is it?
IF, why do you still question the "if"? Look at the evidence available NOW. Don't wait for the political leaders/military top brass to leave office and then accept the errors of their ways. People are fucking dying because of their decisions today!!!!!!
The western leaders learnt from Vietnam that body bags arriving at airports is the quickest way for the population to demand the end of the current war. They believed a high tech hands off approach would win wars. Or "probably" keep them going, to make more profits for the saddle makers to the bankers and hence receive kick backs. The boot wearers never win. They either die, are maimed physically or mentally, lose out on a normal life or inflict pain on families left behind. Outsourcing is today's "solution" to body bags or yellow ribbons.
The high altitude or Kms away attacks are push button video games, you know the same screen shots kids play every day. The kids are moulded into believing the real thing is just another game.
The throat slitter is under know illusions that what he/she is doing has an immediate and final affect on the victim. Not so the sky jockeys, the drone drivers or the military industrial complex employee.
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
If you believe that a certain group of people can organise the types of attacks by themselves funded/planned/supplied/managed/executed from a desert tent village then continue to try and attach a label.Originally Posted by ENT
If you attach a label, in this case, a certain religion, take a look at the "writings" of the other religions. "Go forth and multiply" is probably the simplest to achieve. By force or mind manipulation. They all have them.
This is worth a watch. It's short.
Rise of ISIS, explained - Video Dailymotion
Your time would be better spent looking beyond the end of your nose.Originally Posted by Black Heart
killing in the name of religion has always been accepted as honourable.Originally Posted by ENT
I have bad news for you:
Who Is Haji Imam? ISIS Second In Command Reported Killed During US Raid In Syria
Who Is Haji Imam? ISIS Second In Command Reported Killed During US Raid In Syria
Think( won't say know) religion separates man from nature.Originally Posted by Mr Earl
We have pretty much lost our relationship with it.
It is after all our Maker.
and it is fookin amazin.
nothing more beautiful.
Yes org. rel. destroys our relationship with Nature.
Yes i know some are doing their best to rectify damage already done
but it does go a lot lot deeper. our relationship to Nature that is.
23 years is less stupid, Oh German one? Remind us again of the heroic efforts of your people to overthrow one of the most murderously insane regimes in human history. Feel free to respond in Russian if your native language doesn't seem to have the appropriate words.Originally Posted by HermantheGerman
a) Belief doesn't come into it.
Saudi Arabia organizes and finances Islamic jihad, from palaces in the desert, not from scrappy little tents and caves via cell phone and a lap-top.
b)
Islam is the only religion in practice whose aim is world domination through either conversion (submit or die) or warfare.
It's a religion of submission.
(Islam/Muslim=to submit.)
Dunno where or when the epithet 'religion of peace' came from,...musta been a later day PC handwringer/bobo or Muslim invention.
With respect to your point, Khmen,
Chemical warfare, regarded as illegal, has been used for almost a century in Eurasia and beyond.
It's still an ongoing concern, without any justification.
This goes to show how rules of war are consistently and repeatedly flouted, cry as one might.
The only aim in the whole deal is financial return, an empiricism throughout history.
Prove me wrong,....if you can.
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