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Originally Posted by Cameron Swift
RE: Textcritic's posts
It's an interesting conundrum. To be honest, a lot of the time when I think about it "I just think #### 'em". But then I wonder... why are those girls who willingly went over there considered victims or poor, naive, brainwashed innocents (and let's do everything we can to get them back) and yet the males are considered to be scary psychopaths?
Likewise, why do we laud those Canadians (and Americans, and whoever else) who go over to fight on what "we" consider to be the good side? Are some of those guys not psychos looking to get their jollies though killing? There was a piece on the news last week, that wasn't discussed much, showing Kurdish fighters parading around the bloody, decapitated heads of their opponents. Is that not just as barbaric?
There are victims and barbarians on all sides. Warfare has never been black and white.
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I don't believe that the girls are targeted and recruited in the same day. They're probably promised a simpler life style, they are promised a heroic husband, and they're told that they'll be doing more humanitarian work like helping the wounded and sick and teaching kids.
then the horror really hits.
You do have a valid point on the second part, I'm not onboard with letting people free lance for the Kurds, But I think its easy to be recruited to fight someone like ISIS, you are actually fighting a pretty evil organization.