FORUMS > The Sin Bin > IS and the Western response |
![](images/sitelogos/2022-11.jpg) |
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Club Owner | 2149 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Apr 2003 | 21 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Feb 2024 | Jul 2023 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
4998.jpg Diablo1967 said ''A pub-landlord running a professional sporting outfit in the best league in the hemisphere? Laughable'':4998.jpg |
|
| This is sunni Muslims v shia muslims and non muslims, which is why most of the arab states like Saudi and Qatar are funding them. what these dopey fooking countries don't understand is that if IS by some miracle do take over Iraq they'll be coming for Saudi arabia next, and and then Qatar, UAE etc. Having experienced the Saudi military personally they will do what the iraqi army did, down guns and run away. The al saud family are only in charge because they let the clerics have free control on the population, which is why they have so many spies everywhere among the population and military.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Club Owner | 37503 | ![](images/sitelogos/forumcells/0.gif) |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Apr 2003 | 21 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Apr 2015 | Oct 2014 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
: |
|
| Quote: cod'ead "Yes, every single one of them. Likewise every Jew, Protestant, Catholic, Wesleyan, Hindu and Buddhist did too. A couple of Jains were "Don't knows"'"
it's those darned procrastinators we need to get one board, get them, we have a majority.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Chairman | 7154 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Dec 2001 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
: |
|
| So, the answer was no. Not all of them.
Ta.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Star | 3323 | ![](images/sitelogos/fullsize/34.png) |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2011 | 13 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2024 | Jun 2024 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
All men are created equal, some work harder in preseason.
-[i:1c45x4hd]Emmitt Smith[/i:1c45x4hd]: |
|
| Quote: Rooster Booster "So, the answer was no. Not all of them.
Ta.'"
were they meant to all sign a form agreeing to the statement "I condemn ISIS"? When was this carried out, I didn't hear anything about it?
|
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Board Member | 14970 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Jun 2002 | 22 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Nov 2021 | Nov 2021 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
2244_1299706258.jpg :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_2244.jpg |
|
| Quote: Rooster Booster "So, the answer was no. Not all of them.
Ta.'"
Were they all supposed to?
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Administrator | 25122 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Dec 2001 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2017 | May 2017 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
7.gif :7.gif |
|
| It's easy to bash the American press and almost all the criticism is deserved. And yet I have more respect for, say, the Washington Post <fx: hack ... spit!> than the amusingly titled "Left Wing" British media who actually treat IS as though it is some kind of existential Moral Challenge foisted upon "Our Great Nation & The World" by Islam reeling under the assault of Western Freedom & Democracy.
I can't tell you the glut of self-righteous poppycock which has spewed out of The Guardian and The Independent since the terrifying spectre of IS first emerged. Anyone might think they could call upon six carrier battle groups, seventeen long-range bomber wings, thirty divisions of scimitar wielding desert warriors, all of which commanded from secret CNC installations in hollowed out mountains (presumably dug by Osama's Bond-Villain-Lairs-R-Us construction company) and supported by a plethora of super-secret stealth satellites, uber hackers and nuclear shielded comms.
But I guess it's always easier to find the truth in the pages of an imperial press. After all, the British Empire had its fair share of politicians and journalists who actually believed imperial expansion was nothing to be ashamed of. It's much harder to find substantial support among people living in a client state - not least because you invariably end up doing all of the work for none of the rewards.
Which makes the necessity to dream up noble rhetorical causes all the more pressing. And, boy, our papers turn such into an art form.
|
|
|
![](images/sitelogos/2022-11.jpg) |
|
![](images/sitelogos/2022-11.jpg) |