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How Did A Few Thousand Fighters On Pickup Trucks Manage To Frighten The World?
2014-09-05
[IsraelTimes] If it wasn't so disturbing, it probably could have been entertaining: an army in 4×4 Toyota pickup trucks, managing to terrorize not only Middle Eastern Shiites, but also Western and Israeli media.

If an outsider read the newspaper and internet headlines over the past few months, he would think that the Islamic State, and its counterpart/rival in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, were planning a mass invasion of tens of thousands of jihadis into Israel, and from there into Europe and the United States.

Everyone can calm down. IS and al-Nusra are not military forces that can present an actual threat to a functioning conventional army. The IDF, or the Jordanian army for that matter, are not expecting any difficulty dealing with these rising Islamist forces on the battlefield. The big problem with these two groups is that they can cause significant damage through terror attacks. And as is always the case with terrorism, the focus is the fear it engenders among the public.
Posted by:trailing wife

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

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