Ramadi Falls

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Interesting and unsurprising but still doesn't address my point that the similarities between a secular Marxist insurgency and a brutal Theocratic movement/government are tenuous at best.

Indeed, tenuous.

The words secular and theocratic noted.

[nailer]

Regardless of whether these assholes are secular or religious doesn't change the fact that they are power hungry alphas and behave as such.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by nailer

Regardless of whether these assholes are secular or religious doesn't change the fact that they are power hungry alphas and behave as such.

Way more pathological than that. For all practical purposes the sociopaths have taken over Islam. There are enough of them, with enough support and power, brazen enough, and sick enough to have hamstrung the entire culture. There is a small percentage of people who speak out against the violence, brutality, murder, and terrorism...and for it they end up with a price on their heads. A quarter the culture worldwide supports jihad, caliphate, and any terrorist activities necessary to accomplish the goals of caliphate. Everybody else shrugs their shoulders and looks the other way.

[Pio1980]

Distance helps with the intimidation, proximity not so much.

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[Ike Bana]

Every time I see this in the thread list I'm thinking Ramadi Falls? What is that? Is it where Iraqis go on their honeymoon?

[icenine]

Ike a lot of Americans died near Ramadi. Army personnel who had been away from home for nearly a year in Korea and then were sent to Ramadi died there. I think about 200 Americans were killed around Ramadi.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by icenine

Ike a lot of Americans died near Ramadi. Army personnel who had been away from home for nearly a year in Korea and then were sent to Ramadi died there. I think about 200 Americans were killed around Ramadi.

Who are you, my dad? If you don't think it's funny, just say so. Lots of people died in lots of places. I know let's not try to have fun with anyplace since people keep dying everywhere.

[donquixote99]

Your dad and you must have had fascinating issues. Whenever anyone criticizes you, you accuse them of trying to be him.

In fact, i think you did quote a taste once. He clobbered you flat with tendentious logic, as i recall....

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Who are you, my dad? If you don't think it's funny, just say so. Lots of people died in lots of places. I know let's not try to have fun with anyplace since people keep dying everywhere.

The point as I see it is that a lot of folks thru family and friends as well as their own experience have a very strong emotional investment in the place.

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[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Your dad and you must have had fascinating issues. Whenever anyone criticizes you, you accuse them of trying to be him.

In fact, i think you did quote a taste once. He clobbered you flat with tendentious logic, as i recall....

One thing I don't come here for, for sure, is a lecture. Want to lecture somebody? Go lecture your offspring.

Sometimes this joint can be the center of the humor impairment universe.