BREAKING: Islamic State, in video titled "A Message to America," beheads American journalist James Wright Foley.
I believe he was captured 3 years ago or so.
I accidentally came across the graphic pics.....you don't want to go there.
Also they are threatening to behead another journalist. Sick, sick bastards.
Then you'll have Brett joining their cause.
Man...your act gets tiring. Seriously, please say something you really want to say so we can see you in banned land.
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Finally, at long last, he gets it. That's the whole point of the Caliphate. That's why they are financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. what happend you finally, after a day of trolling decided to look up who was financing them? All muslims at least know they are all brothers, one big happy family. So glad the light bulb finally went on for you. Better late than never.
Man...your act gets tiring. Seriously, please say something you really want to say so we can see you in banned land.
Good grief, slinging nukes will definitely calm the Islamic extremists... just like kicking that hornet's nest solved my backyard pest problem.
Good grief, slinging nukes will definitely calm the Islamic extremists... just like kicking that hornet's nest solved my backyard pest problem.
Kicking the hornet's nest was a bitch move bra. Should have nuked it. Then other hornets would know what's up and stay away.
Gotta nuke something
Gotta nuke something
'Murica!
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Gotta nuke something
'Murica!
Errr... Israel too, apparently. Don't know how to shorten that into redneck dialect.
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that the 72 virgins are all dudes. That might get them to knock it off.
Then you'll have Brett joining their cause.
No, he'd only join if we were talking about virgin koalas.
I was quite contented to let this play out but for two points. One is kicker's assertion about "massing them all together". While the notion of nuking Mecca indeed suggests I might practice some sort of massing of Islamic folk, in fact in practice I do not. I'd easily take a bet that I've broken more bread, shared more cigarettes with, and shared the same water bottle with more Islamic Palestinians in the past few months than the vast majority of BBI have in their lives.
Secondly it's interesting that no one of you had the stones to even address the second part of my comment, because (I guess) you are all just too scared of it to even look it in the eye... Eventually Jihadists will get a nuke themselves. And they will have no qualms about detonating it in the heart of a major western city. Most likely an American one.
YOU can't even look that in the eye, but I do in fact live with the possibility of a bomb capping my ass every fucking day. Today two warnings. The 1st I was out in the field so I just layed face down in the dirt and prayed to Hashem. At least for the second one I was at home and could go into our shelter.
Each warning was followed by two rather noisy detonations, meaning close by explosions and then a few quieter ones from further away.
And no one is "scared" of addressing your second point, only that taking action against the greater than zero probability that a terrorist somewhere, someday will have a nuclear device didn't really warrant a response.
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Finally, at long last, he gets it. That's the whole point of the Caliphate. That's why they are financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. what happend you finally, after a day of trolling decided to look up who was financing them? All muslims at least know they are all brothers, one big happy family. So glad the light bulb finally went on for you. Better late than never.
Man...your act gets tiring. Seriously, please say something you really want to say so we can see you in banned land.
beg, bitch.
Very witty...You had me at hello.
It's not "an eye for an eye", Hammurabi. It's "millions of eyes that had nothing to do with the transgression, for an eye."
And if the indeed oftentimes parlous nature of the country where you call home truly does engender such irrationally excessive feelings of vengeance, maybe you'd well to consider moving to, I dunno, Spokane (solid grape-growing terrain I hear).
I was quite contented to let this play out but for two points. One is kicker's assertion about "massing them all together". While the notion of nuking Mecca indeed suggests I might practice some sort of massing of Islamic folk, in fact in practice I do not. I'd easily take a bet that I've broken more bread, shared more cigarettes with, and shared the same water bottle with more Islamic Palestinians in the past few months than the vast majority of BBI have in their lives.
Secondly it's interesting that no one of you had the stones to even address the second part of my comment, because (I guess) you are all just too scared of it to even look it in the eye... Eventually Jihadists will get a nuke themselves. And they will have no qualms about detonating it in the heart of a major western city. Most likely an American one.
YOU can't even look that in the eye, but I do in fact live with the possibility of a bomb capping my ass every fucking day. Today two warnings. The 1st I was out in the field so I just layed face down in the dirt and prayed to Hashem. At least for the second one I was at home and could go into our shelter.
Each warning was followed by two rather noisy detonations, meaning close by explosions and then a few quieter ones from further away.
And that is definitely unfortunate, most of us have shared our well wishes with you for your and your family's safety. That doesn't, however, mean that we aren't going to tell you that some of your comments are pretty stupid...or outright stupid as hell.
And spare me the "I've broken more bread" schtick. Some of us have just as much experience if not more living and working day to day with those of the Islamic faith than even you. That comment is similar to the lame assed cliche of someone saying "I have black friends, so I'm not a racist" when they clearly make racist comments.
And give me a damn break about nukes. Because you fear for something that may or may not happen one day doesn't mean you should then turn around and do the same act that you dread being done to you. That is one assbackwards rationalizing.
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I was quite contented to let this play out but for two points. One is kicker's assertion about "massing them all together". While the notion of nuking Mecca indeed suggests I might practice some sort of massing of Islamic folk, in fact in practice I do not. I'd easily take a bet that I've broken more bread, shared more cigarettes with, and shared the same water bottle with more Islamic Palestinians in the past few months than the vast majority of BBI have in their lives.
Secondly it's interesting that no one of you had the stones to even address the second part of my comment, because (I guess) you are all just too scared of it to even look it in the eye... Eventually Jihadists will get a nuke themselves. And they will have no qualms about detonating it in the heart of a major western city. Most likely an American one.
YOU can't even look that in the eye, but I do in fact live with the possibility of a bomb capping my ass every fucking day. Today two warnings. The 1st I was out in the field so I just layed face down in the dirt and prayed to Hashem. At least for the second one I was at home and could go into our shelter.
Each warning was followed by two rather noisy detonations, meaning close by explosions and then a few quieter ones from further away.
It was a dipshit comment, and continues to be so.
And yeah, punishing those who peacefully follow the religion is kinda grouping them all together...
And spare me the "I know someone" nonsense.
I'd say idiotic, but that was already used with your nuke idea.
YOU can't even look that in the eye, but I do in fact live with the possibility of a bomb capping my ass every fucking day. Today two warnings. The 1st I was out in the field so I just layed face down in the dirt and prayed to Hashem. At least for the second one I was at home and could go into our shelter.
While the situations are not identical by any means, I lived on Long Island during 9/11 and in NYC shortly thereafter. Those were scary times and a lot of people said all kinds of the same crazy shit about making the Middle East a parking lot, dropping nukes, etc. Everyone was scared, upset, shook up, angry, confused... all of that.
I will say now what I said then... it is absolutely possible that some terrorist could detonate a nuke, or disrupt the electrical grid, or destroy a dam, or release a biological agent. However, a natural virus could arise that kills millions of people, an asteroid could hit the planet, a hurricane could destroy any given coastal city.
Disaster, whether natural or man made, is always a possibility. Safety and security are by and large transitory. Anything could happen at any time. Taking reasonable and prudent caution is advisable and understandable. However, living life in the grip of irrational fear over what may come to pass, hating people who may or may not harm us, advocating to take affirmative steps to deal with a hypothetical threat... that is a sure fire way to live a miserable, angry life. I choose not to think that way, act that way or talk that way.
It could be I am afforded the luxury of this choice due to the privilege of being a citizen of a wealthy first world nation. It could be that this is all rendered moot tomorrow by some unknown calamity. All I know is my day to day life is a lot fucking easier when I acknowledge that disaster is possible but do not take it personally and do not contribute to the hate and the strife that sow the conditions for ongoing violence and depravity.
Yes, if you're going to be lazy about it and try to win a war (and in the end actually lose it), then brute force is definitely the way to go. However, if you are going to actually win a war, careful and calculated application of force is far more effective. It's one of those War101 thing...Attrition Warfare vs. Maneuver Warfare...brute force may have worked back in the 13th century, but I doubt that brute force works now.
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YOU can't even look that in the eye, but I do in fact live with the possibility of a bomb capping my ass every fucking day. Today two warnings. The 1st I was out in the field so I just layed face down in the dirt and prayed to Hashem. At least for the second one I was at home and could go into our shelter.
While the situations are not identical by any means, I lived on Long Island during 9/11 and in NYC shortly thereafter. Those were scary times and a lot of people said all kinds of the same crazy shit about making the Middle East a parking lot, dropping nukes, etc. Everyone was scared, upset, shook up, angry, confused... all of that.
I will say now what I said then... it is absolutely possible that some terrorist could detonate a nuke, or disrupt the electrical grid, or destroy a dam, or release a biological agent. However, a natural virus could arise that kills millions of people, an asteroid could hit the planet, a hurricane could destroy any given coastal city.
Disaster, whether natural or man made, is always a possibility. Safety and security are by and large transitory. Anything could happen at any time. Taking reasonable and prudent caution is advisable and understandable. However, living life in the grip of irrational fear over what may come to pass, hating people who may or may not harm us, advocating to take affirmative steps to deal with a hypothetical threat... that is a sure fire way to live a miserable, angry life. I choose not to think that way, act that way or talk that way.
It could be I am afforded the luxury of this choice due to the privilege of being a citizen of a wealthy first world nation. It could be that this is all rendered moot tomorrow by some unknown calamity. All I know is my day to day life is a lot fucking easier when I acknowledge that disaster is possible but do not take it personally and do not contribute to the hate and the strife that sow the conditions for ongoing violence and depravity.
Que sera sera....not exactly a cogent plan for a long life and not really the foreign policy I want (although admittedly the one we appear to be getting).
I'll also point out that we vaccinate against viruses and attempt antivirals when infected. We send Bruce Willis to blow up the asteroid. We do what we can, secure buildings , get early warning, do what we need to do to protect ourselves against hurricanes. In most cases we do a bit more than say that it's been a really good run and we're glad we got live in a really cool place.
Que sera sera....not exactly a cogent plan for a long life and not really the foreign policy I want (although admittedly the one we appear to be getting).
I'll also point out that we vaccinate against viruses and attempt antivirals when infected. We send Bruce Willis to blow up the asteroid. We do what we can, secure buildings , get early warning, do what we need to do to protect ourselves against hurricanes. In most cases we do a bit more than say that it's been a really good run and we're glad we got live in a really cool place.
True, but we don't advocate to go drop a nuke preemptively off a chance that someone else may explode one on our soil. If that's the sort of measure we'll take to ensure our safety, are we really ensuring our safety long term? Seems like going crazy yourself to counter someone else's craziness.
I get the dudes with the pitchforks and convenient myopia missing that little point, but would have bet you'd have caught it. 2nd round is on me I guess.
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Que sera sera....not exactly a cogent plan for a long life and not really the foreign policy I want (although admittedly the one we appear to be getting).
I'll also point out that we vaccinate against viruses and attempt antivirals when infected. We send Bruce Willis to blow up the asteroid. We do what we can, secure buildings , get early warning, do what we need to do to protect ourselves against hurricanes. In most cases we do a bit more than say that it's been a really good run and we're glad we got live in a really cool place.
True, but we don't advocate to go drop a nuke preemptively off a chance that someone else may explode one on our soil. If that's the sort of measure we'll take to ensure our safety, are we really ensuring our safety long term? Seems like going crazy yourself to counter someone else's craziness.
Oh I agree and I am not advocating that. But there has to be something in between that and the Jonestown philosophy articulated above.
I get the dudes with the pitchforks and convenient myopia missing that little point, but would have bet you'd have caught it. 2nd round is on me I guess.
The real jihadists don't give a shit about Mecca. ISIS wants to destroy it too. All you'd do is create the ultimate terror recruiting video.
Too bad you shared all those smokes with "them" for naught.
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Before leveling Mecca? Was it not OBVIOUS I was neither advocating nor suggesting killing millions of people? Hell I didn't suggest killing ONE. The idea was to retaliate against the Jihadis' success at destroying a powerful symbol of Western culture by taking down and even more powerful symbol of Islam.
I get the dudes with the pitchforks and convenient myopia missing that little point, but would have bet you'd have caught it. 2nd round is on me I guess.
The real jihadists don't give a shit about Mecca. ISIS wants to destroy it too. All you'd do is create the ultimate terror recruiting video.
Too bad you shared all those smokes with "them" for naught.
Even if it weren't insane on the face of it, the premise is based on a false equivalency. You say jihadist instead of Muslims, admitting that it's an extremist minority. They aren't targeting a minority, they target all westerners. That's why they go after the western symbols you mention. But it's not the same thing if we target Mecca because that's not going against a symbol of the jihadist minority but rather the entire culture. For your tit for tat to work we would need to nuke a symbol uniquely important to jihadists. Osama's house or something. And a nuke would just seem like overkill for a house.
I get the dudes with the pitchforks and convenient myopia missing that little point, but would have bet you'd have caught it. 2nd round is on me I guess.
Spoken like a person relying on his emotions to dictate his views rather than actual knowledge of how complex the world is, especially when it comes to Islamic extremism. But I'm sure he'll argue that he has a unique understanding of the situation since he lives in Israel and has dealt with Muslims more than most of us.
Even ignoring the fact that it would irreparably alienate US allies everywhere (I'm sure Pakistan would love it), why would you punish Indonesian Muslims, Turkish Muslims, American Muslims, etc. because of the psychotic actions of a small group of terrorists?
Finally, after your benevolent "warning" is disclosed, do you expect Riyadh to just sit idly by for their 3rd largest city to be leveled? "Hey if you could make sure the radiation doesn't waft toward Jeddah 50 miles to the west, that'd be great. And we'll make sure OPEC isn't interrupted at all for you. Thaaaaanks."
This isn't a Haaretz comment section, I don't know why the fuck you'd think anyone finds your words worth a listen. Maybe this sort of shit plays in the self-fellating circles you run in, but this and other examples of your verbal santorum has help drive far better posters than you away from the site.
So here's to nukes in shitty vineyards of midlife crisis losers.
Go fuck yourself.
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I'll also point out that we vaccinate against viruses and attempt antivirals when infected. We send Bruce Willis to blow up the asteroid. We do what we can, secure buildings , get early warning, do what we need to do to protect ourselves against hurricanes. In most cases we do a bit more than say that it's been a really good run and we're glad we got live in a really cool place.
Right, we send Bruce Willis, secure buildings, etc. We take prudent and cautious actions. What we don't do is lob nukes at a hypothetical threat.
I am not advocating against having reasonable protections or plans for disaster. I am advocating against letting the specter of danger transform our culture and our mental state.
No bomb detonated by a group like ISIS can possibly destroy America, or Western civilization, or democratic values, or any other institution or component of our culture. Our reaction to the act, or our fear of the hypothetical future possibility of that act can do a hell of a lot of damage, though. That is what terrorism is about.
*"Eradicate" does not not mean nuke Mecca or even ISIS itself.
Please video it and post to youtube.
Thanks!
And really, no one should be coming to the defense of BluLou's idiotic fear-mongering post, which totally lacks any kind of proportionality. Thank god other Israelis (at least the ones I know) don't prescribe to such aggressive stance.
That's got to count for something.
This isn't a Haaretz comment section, I don't know why the fuck you'd think anyone finds your words worth a listen. Maybe this sort of shit plays in the self-fellating circles you run in, but this and other examples of your verbal santorum has help drive far better posters than you away from the site.
So here's to nukes in shitty vineyards of midlife crisis losers.
Go fuck yourself.
This is a fantastic post. Nitro's the best.