Ramadi Falls

[icenine]

Back on point:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z1

[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.

[Boreas]

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.

Ike, your wedding comment clearly hit a nerve with Robbin. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you didn't intend to do it but I think you should have realized it once he responded. Given that realization, however, don't you think the kind thing, the empathetic thing to have done would be to apologize or maybe just say nothing else?

I know that your default mode is attack but try to have a little consideration for others once in a while.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Ike, your wedding comment clearly hit a nerve with Robbin. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you didn't intend to do it but I think you should have realized it once he responded. Given that realization, however, don't you think the kind thing, the empathetic thing to have done would be to apologize or maybe just say nothing else?

I know that your default mode is attack but try to have a little consideration for others once in a while.

Everybody has probably lost somebody to war or some other sort of violence, John. I have lost friend's and family to both. I lost family to the holocaust, and somehow endure the bullshit attacks from pro-Palestinian members over my position on Israel without resorting to lecturing them on their insensitivity. On a warm summer might in 1963 I walked into my best friend's house and found him lying in his own blood and brains on the kitchen floor. A victim of fun violence. And somehow I manage to deal with it when right wingjob opponents on guns call me an idiot and a fool and don't know what nerve they might be hitting.

My intent was not to whack anybody's personal loss button. That said, I will not be lectured. I will not be scolded. We all have a button somewhere.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

My intent was not to whack anybody's personal loss button.

But, by keeping this going, that's what you're doing.