Shootings in Paris - MOD NOTE UPDATED - READ OP

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

If this was the 40's ISIS would have been wiped off the Earth by now. US did not mine killing thousands of innocent Japanese but won't wipe out this scum . World is no PC .
Someone need to step up, Putin probably .

bloominballix wrote: »

Ya wha?

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear

The white battle truck roared through the rubble-strewn centre of Sinjar, its improvised armour scraping against the asphalt, bomb-laden drums bouncing and a screaming gunman shaking his rifle at the sky.

“We have killed all [Islamic State],” the Peshmerga fighter said of the enemy that until hours earlier had aimed to use the truck as a suicide bomb against Kurdish forces. “Victory is ours. Sinjar is ours.”

By noon on Friday, the Kurdish Peshmerga had claimed full control of Sinjar, a city that had come to define the war for northern Iraq since it was seized by the jihadi group 15 months ago.

The fall of Sinjar laid bare the depravity of its conquerers, who killed or enslaved the Yazidi community that had lived here for several thousand years and forced survivors to flee to the ridgeline above. It exposed the shortcomings of the Kurdish forces, who had been tasked with protecting the city but retreated as danger neared. And it scattered across the Nineveh plains minorities who had coexisted since the dawn of civilisation but could not survive Isis.

Sinjar’s recapture appears to herald a new phase in the war. On the bombed streets of the city, a few locals had returned to inspect what was left of their homes. “It doesn’t matter that the house has been bombed,” said one man in front of his partly ruined home. “It matters that I can take my family out of the refugee camp. This is ours again.”