Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
Well, can a government really abandon someone because they travelled to a particular part of the world? Not really, not unless you want to accept the principle that yyou citizens are, in effect, only citizens within your borders.Originally Posted by Husar
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Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
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Plenty of US weapons. Some assault rifles have "Property of the US government" on them. What is this?
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Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
Given the Iraqi army (financed and supposedly trained by the USA) ran away abandoning pretty much everything I'm hardly surprised.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
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Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
According to this article, coalition airstrikes are killing 1 000 IS fighters a month:
That sounds rather extreme. But if it is true, and IS fighters also happen to have lower empathy levels and higher psychopathy scores than average, it would in effect be a eugenics program.Overall, Operation Inherent Resolve (the U.S.-led combined joint task force in Iraq and Syria) is killing about 1,000 ISIS fighters a month. The death toll roughly matches the number of new recruits ISIS is able to field each month, effectively capping its manpower strength at about 30,000 to 40,000 fighters.
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Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
Stupid numbers. On the one hand, they claim that ISIS has 30,000 fighters and on the other, they pretend that the Kurds and their aristrikes kill several thousands of them.
It's a typical contradiction of an overblown propaganda, if it was true, the half of Iraq would be controlled by a couple of patrols.
Never trust the participants to give you an accurate casualty figure. The world has improved since Arrian and his Persian genocide, but not much.
Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
Doesn't look like you read what it said. They say IS recruits ~ 1000 new fighters a month, and that their airstrikes kill ~ 1000 IS fighters a month; so those numbers add up. Verifying them is another matter. The core of the statements seems to be that they think the number of IS fighters is currently about constant.
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Re: ISIS on the offensive in Iraq
The problem is that ISIS is also fighting against Syria, Iraq, the Kurds, AQ, various islamists, Hezbollah and Soleimani. And according to them, they lose some hundreds of men in every battle.
They all lie, from the Americans to the Iranians and a claim that 30 ISIS soldiers die on a daily basis is simply absurd and misleading.
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