Renegade Mechanic wrote: » Its their issue but when it costs 200 quid to fill your car (not to mention the price increase on literally everything else) itll be ours too! Its a sad fact but its true.
Tail Docker wrote: » Yeah Reg, but that 200 quid is 80% tax, don't forget that bit...oil is cheap, our government is dear...
Tail Docker wrote: » No, you don't. My point is, this is a Middle Eastern issue at the moment. How about letting them sort it out? As an analogy, if during the troubles, when the IRA were at their height and bombing regularly, what if the US decided to bomb them back into their boxes? Because "bad stuff was happening". That a good solution?
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smurfjed wrote: » I think that you mean Sunni....
Da Shins Kelly wrote: » I remember reading somewhere recently that Syria warned the US about the formation of this group some time ago and asked for help to nip it in the bud before it flourished. The US refused to help them and turned around and supported ISIS instead. Now they're playing the good guy with air strikes and what have you. Serious shenanigans going on. Can't help but feel that all this instability in the Middle East is exactly what the US want. Turning countries and people against each other. Must try and find that article again.
RobertKK wrote: » Sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't, and sometimes democracy is not the solution. This whole ISIS problem stems from the uprising in Syria, the west along with human rights abusers Qatar and Saudi Arabia backed the opposition. The west has engaged in a failed foreign policy, Assad said he was fighting terrorists, his words were dismissed. The west tried to get involved militarily but at least Russia put a stop to it. If the west had supported the devil we know, and who was and has never been a real threat, we might not have had the rise of ISIS. This problem originated in Syria, and what is happening in Iraq has been happening for a long time in Syria, but we are told Assad is the bad guy, yes he is a bad guy but we would be far better off from a humanitarian viewpoint if he still controlled all of Syria. The same goes for Iraq under Saddam, we would have been better off with the devil we know. There is no solution to ISIS in sight. With Syria, the west supported the opening of Pandora's box.
Tail Docker wrote: » Yes I can. I just did as it happens. See, the thing is, "WE" in the west machine-gunned our way into the middle east and re-drew all the borders, to suit us. Now, those long forgotten old chickens are coming back to roost. You can only keep your foot on someones neck for so long before they try and bite your leg. To start whinging when your violence begets violence from others is a bit warped, IMO.
realweirdo wrote: » The wests support for the opposition has been negligible and certainly not near enough to influence the outcome of the conflict. No SA missiles for a start, few if any anti tank missiles, and little else of note. To defeat assad you need tanks, anti aircraft weapons, artillary and grad missiles not one of which the west supplied. You will have to look elsewhere for a bogeyman in the syrian conflict. As for assad 100% of his weapons were supplied by russia who have continued to supply him even as he mass murdered civilians with barrel bombs.
RobertKK wrote: » I simply think trying to defeat Assad from the start is the cause of the problems we have now with ISIS. Assad is still very popular in Syria, the people there want peace, they don't see what the opposition has to offer as being peace. In 2012, a poll by a Qatari based group and linked to the royal family of Qatar who oppose Assad found 55% of Syrians supported Assad. Last year a NATO poll found the support for Assad had risen to 70%. You say mass murdered civilians, the people of Syria see a different picture, his support has been rising over the course of the war, not reducing. The opposition offer nothing but violence, and the FSA could never offer stability like Assad had, and it allowed other groups like ISIS to rise up in the mess they helped create.
realweirdo wrote: » I hope you include yourself in that "we". If so you are as responsible as everyone else.
Tail Docker wrote: » Probably a bit more, army family going back generations. But there you go. Also, on the "they executed 2000..." is that a verified fact or somthing that started at 20 and grew with the telling? Honest question.
realweirdo wrote: » Your main premise is that the west tried to overthrow assad and really if they genuinely wanted to overthrow assad he'd be gone long ago. As i already said ISIS owe more to Assad for their creation than anyone else. I know you are trying to pin the creation of ISIS on the west but its just not working I'm afraid. Its popular these days to lay the blame for everything at the door of the west even when they arent to blame. The main point here is if assad had tried to peacefully deal with the early protests in syria none of this would have happened. He'd already killed thousands before the fsa was created from defecting soldiers in syria. America hating has never been more popular and yet whenever there is a disaster around the world including typhoons, tsunamis and earthquake who is the first country people beg for help from....russia? China? Germany? Of course not.
Sierra Oscar wrote: » They have been around for quite some time now. They were active during the US occupation of Iraq.
InTheTrees wrote: » But so f'ing what?? Have you seen the big round towers our ancestors built to try and defend against the vikings? Have you read about the savage brutality of the middle ages? yes. The west has been savage. The romans were watching Christians fighting to the death against animals in the coliseum. Slaughter and death all around. ?? So you think that means we should sit back and let Isis behead kids because its their turn at brutality? let them have their own 12th century and dont interfere? I really dont get your point.
Tail Docker wrote: » Let's also not forget our History books either. Not that long ago we in the West thought nothing of popping across to Africa and filling a ship with people to do our work for us, for free - the ones who objected got slaughtered. And a lot of slavers were Irish.. Civility is a thin veneer stretched over an awful lot of badness. To say "Islam/ISIS" is the great bogey-man and we're all good-lads is laughable, IMO.
spook_house wrote: » The legacy of guilt , between slavery and past injustice towards women , my back is broken with all.that weight
RobertKK wrote: » Russia prevented the west from making the situation far worse.
Snake Plisken wrote: » Wow those Isis are low life scum, just saw a pic of beheaded toddlers and a woman with her throat cut while she bleeds to death! These scum seriously need to be bombed out of existence! Animals!
Drakares wrote: » I really hope these sick cnuts get blown to pieces by the US drones. I saw some pictures of what they are doing. Actually beheading kids and just killing fúcking kids. I am not well after seeing this... Evil evil disgusting scum.