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[Denny Oubidoux]

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[Denny Oubidoux]

The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

You'd like to see a lot fewer of these drone strikes

Obama: CIA Killed Three Americans, Italian Hostage in Drone Strikes

Maybe this will help

 

[Unicron]

You'd like to see a lot fewer of these drone strikes

Obama: CIA Killed Three Americans, Italian Hostage in Drone Strikes

Maybe this will help

Before there were drone strikes weren't the US doing the same in Afghanistan just with manned fighter jets?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Before there were drone strikes weren't the US doing the same in Afghanistan just with manned fighter jets?

No idea

Very probably

 

[hydromancer]

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[тхеодоре кацзынски]

You'd like to see a lot fewer of these drone strikes

Obama: CIA Killed Three Americans, Italian Hostage in Drone Strikes

Maybe this will help

They're only going to become increasingly prevalent I would have thought, who wouldn't want to fight a war from the other side of the world?
Give it a few years and the human input will be at an absolute minimum and likely only there to stave off Skynet comparisons.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

who wouldn't want to fight a war from the other side of the world?

Good point

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Isis: Bold as Love.

EVERY TIME I see it.

Like, every time.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

We're only killing about 15% civilians with drones. So stop your moaning!
U.S. drone strikes: Civilian casualties would be much higher without them.

Never mind the deaths, smell the efficiency!

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

We're only killing about 15% civilians with drones. So stop your moaning!
U.S. drone strikes: Civilian casualties would be much higher without them.

I only scanned that quickly, (so much wrong with it even then) but did he address the reclassification of all males killed by a drone strike as terrorists (so not civilians) until proven otherwise?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

This is the closest he comes, I think

In the current war against ISIS, the U.S. and its allies claim to have carried out more than 3,000 airstrikes and killed more than 8,000 ISIS fighters with zero confirmed civilian casualties. But nobody trusts those numbers.

 

[Unicron]

They've been justifying killing civilians with that excuse since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Also, their metric for saying someone isn't a cilivilian is dodgey as fuck. Any military age male casualty who can't conclusively be verified as a civilian is classified as a combatant.

Edit: I see TK got in with that point already.

 

[pete]

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[7 - No tomorrow]

I'd say Mark misses hunting deer with that yoke

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Caliphate of Law

The law according to I.S.
They're certainly in it for the long run and, given the lack of urgency in vanquishing them it must be wondered whether, if they moderate their behaviour, they could be accepted as a state, albeit a pariah state in the mould of North Korea.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Caliphate of Law

The law according to I.S.
They're certainly in it for the long run and, given the lack of urgency in vanquishing them it must be wondered whether, if they moderate their behaviour, they could be accepted as a state, albeit a pariah state in the mould of North Korea.

Hard to see, but maybe.
They want the world to be under Sharia, so they're going to continue pissing people off. They don't have someone like China to put manners on other powers either.

 

[ernesto]

anyone on here reckon that 'ISIS' is actually aload of horseshit?
and an excuse to wage war on 'terrorists'?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

anyone on here reckon that 'ISIS' is actually aload of horseshit?
and an excuse to wage war on 'terrorists'?

I don't think that's the case.
It's been caused by the American involvement in Iraq and the internet Arab Spring bringing about power vacuums in these places.
And all the background proxy shit Iran and the Saudi get up to.

It seems legit as far as I can tell.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Hard to see, but maybe.
They want the world to be under Sharia, so they're going to continue pissing people off. They don't have someone like China to put manners on other powers either.

Hard to see certainly. I'm just considering their setting up of institutions, their relatively firm hold on what they possess combined with the aforementioned lack of urgency in unseating them and, their relative realism in pursuit of their goals. I think if they were to settle with what they have and consolidate, they could be left to their devices, this with some Saudi support (likely covert) could see them become a somewhat permenent entity, if one that's locked out of most, if not all international organisations and institutions.
Maybe a better comparison than North Korea would be Transnistria or Somaliland.