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2014-09-05 Terror Networks

How Did A Few Thousand Fighters On Pickup Trucks Manage To Frighten The World?

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 If it wasn't so disturbing, it probably could have been entertaining

It is entertaining.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-05 03:22|| 2014-09-05 03:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Urban leftists have always had a fear of people with guns and pickup trucks.

Posted by no mo uro 2014-09-05 07:37|| 2014-09-05 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure the richly anointed in the capital of the Heavenly Kingdom thought the same of a bunch of pony riders from the north. Corruption, egotism, and servility of their culture and masses allowed those pony riders to build the largest empire in the history of the world. The same attitude the richly anointed in Constantinople had about another group of rag tag marauders that appeared first out of Arabia a couple hundred years earlier that would occupy much of what was once known as the Roman Empire in Africa (and Spain), the Sassanid Persian Empire, and on to Central Asia. Scares the britches off of those who's world is basically byzantine games of power to see people motivated by something beyond themselves. Double scarey to those who've reduced their own population to dependents by power games of playing one group against another and now lacking a citizenry that can match that elan in defense of such a corrupt political culture.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-05 08:49|| 2014-09-05 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 So why hasn't more been done, earlier? You would need to ask US President Barack Obama
that question, as he seeks to find a strategy against IS and build an international coalition -- as though he is dealing with a conflict with Russia.

It offends his Muslim sensitivities to do anything? Unfortunately, we have a president who is "like a penny trying to make change." His being an empty suit is becoming very apparent--even to his supporters and fellow travelers of the Donk Party. Must be what he meant by "transparency."

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-05 09:48|| 2014-09-05 09:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Have we the Maxim gun yet?
Yes. Oh yes, it's only the desiree to use the fucker that's missing.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-05 10:28|| 2014-09-05 10:28|| Front Page Top

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