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Originally Posted by Makarov
^ Appalling. Sickening. Another in a long list of crimes against humanity by these people.
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Ok, I'm going to sound like a piece of crap here, but I think that there are bigger reasons to go after ISIS then this, and this isn't new at all to religious extremists.
Remember that the Taliban were the kings of destroying ancient artifacts and shrines.
To me while this is tragic its almost secondary to the very real treatment of innocent people over there and that's where the focus should be.
To me ISIS is that rare representation of a purely evil organization out there where the worst of humanity congregates. It seems like its a 50 year cycle. We had the rise of extremism in pre WW2, with the 4 strong men rising at the same time in Stalin, Hitler, BM in Italy and the militant Japanese leadership. These lead to horrific crimes against humanity.
We said never again, and that as human's our duty is to kill these kind of movements and these kind of strongmen concepts in their grave.
By going after ISIS with what I believe are half a$$ed measures, we've allowed what I consider to be pure evil to entrench itself and grow like a cancer to the point that the situation is so un-winnable that we're willing to stand by and watch it while saying platitudes like, this is horrible, and these people are monsters, and really nothing is being done.
I give the Kurds credit more then anything else as they're fighting ISIS on the ground.
But as far as Western Policy goes, this will go down as a monumental failure.