Iraq & Syrian Civil Wars - Page 280

The Syrian Arab Army’s Special Forces (Qawat Al-Khassa) unit “the Tiger Forces” led by Colonel Suheil Al-Hassan (the “Al-Nimr”) – along with Liwaa Suqour Al-Sahra (Falcons of the Desert Brigade) – are being reportedly redeployed to the northern Aleppo front after spending five months in eastern Homs combatting the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).

The news of their apparent redeployment comes 4 days after the offensive launched by the National Defense Forces (NDF) offensive in northern Aleppo; this was confirmed by the Al-Mayadeen field reporter Rida Al-Basha.

For the Tiger Forces, their long awaited return to the northern Aleppo front comes nine months after they broke the siege of the Aleppo Prison and captured the village of Al-Jubeileh before being transferred to the northern Hama front, where they captured the strategic town of Morek on the Idlib border.

On February 16 2015 05:26 xDaunt wrote:
ISIS isn't the root problem. Radical Islam is. Getting rid of that would probably require something very close to the commission of war crimes.

On February 22 2015 14:41 Incognoto wrote:


So I guess radical islam isn't the problem as much as just being an idiot in the first place.

On February 22 2015 14:44 KwarK wrote:

Certainly I feel that if xDaunt wishes to solve conflicts by killing the people stupid enough to initiate them then America has an awful lot of cleaning up to do at home.

On February 22 2015 14:56 xDaunt wrote:

So you are not in favor of proactively dealing with a genocidal entity?

And let us not pretend that ISIS is just a small, extremist faction. Extrapolating from polls asking levels of support for ISIS among Muslims, it is very clear that more than a hundred million Muslims (and possibly a lot more) support ISIS globally. I am all ears when it comes to proposals for dealing with that problem. I just happen to think that any such solution is inevitably going to be bloody.

On February 22 2015 14:56 xDaunt wrote:

So you are not in favor of proactively dealing with a genocidal entity?

And let us not pretend that ISIS is just a small, extremist faction. Extrapolating from polls asking levels of support for ISIS among Muslims, it is very clear that more than a hundred million Muslims (and possibly a lot more) support ISIS globally. I am all ears when it comes to proposals for dealing with that problem. I just happen to think that any such solution is inevitably going to be bloody.

On February 22 2015 20:30 AssyrianKing wrote:

I just find this picture laughable to be honest, Turkey had so many chances to help deal a significant blow to ISIS but they just don't care

On February 22 2015 21:32 Godwrath wrote:
Don't they know exactly what's going on since it's pretty much a literal and medieval interpretation of the Islam? It's as expected as it gets. I disagree with xDaunt, you can't bomb and invade your way through this, and long term it would be worse. Supporting YPG, Jordan and Syria's regime seems like a way better way to deal with ISIS and confine it to its own little piece of crap land until it dies.

It was only after a 700-year-old tomb came under threat that Erdogan was willing to muster almost 600 soldiers, 57 armoured vehicles, and 39 tanks to take action. The fact that the journey from the Turkish border to the location of the tomb passes through Kobane only adds to this twisted irony. One can only guess what the Turkish soldiers were thinking as their convoy made its way through the still smouldering rubble and devastation of Kobane.

On February 22 2015 23:12 heliusx wrote:

You can't win this by force but you can win by supporting others who will use force against each other? Wat?

It's pretty clear diplomacy is not going to work.

On February 23 2015 00:01 iMOOrtal wrote:
Turks pass by Kobane while on their way to the tomb.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/02/turkish-troops-pass-smouldering-kobane-save-shrine-150222134326067.html


If I was to hazard a guess, something like this would've been on blasting over their speakers+ Show Spoiler +
Glory to the construction workers and landscapers of Turkey.

On February 22 2015 20:55 puerk wrote:


Oh please, those numbers are totally not representative. It is a stupid thing to say you support ISIS, but to actually assume that support in a poll for a genocidal entitiy is the same as being an extremist commiting those attrocities is equaly dumb.

You seem to ignore everything we know about psychology and actual genocidal regimes: the perpetrators are a small extremist minority covered for by a larger support group, that dissociates/ignores/doesnt know the actual acts. Do you really not see that when allied soldiers forced german citizens to actually visit and look at the concentration camps that they did not scream heil hitler and gave their live to continue the cause? It was armchair extremism, incited by populism. As soon as they were forced to face what they actually supported they couldn't believe it.

Nothing in the world suggests that those 100m you love to parade around everywhere are anywhere close to being dangerous people. They are misslead, incited, armchair extremists. Voicing support for entities they have no intimate knowledge about, and no sense of perspective for the actual acts commited, be it through cognitive dissonance or plain ignorance. They would drop their support of isis the same way citizens of Weimar dropped their support for the third reich in Buchenwald.

You don't have to kill Mitläufer to stop the bandwagon. The act of trying to do that usually even converts them from passive supporters in word only, to actual supporters in action, as they now have an actual beef in the game, where they before where only loudmouths.

On February 23 2015 08:41 xDaunt wrote:


Here's the big difference between ISIS and Nazi Germany: ISIS does what it does in fulfillment of its religious beliefs. This isn't a situation like in Nazi Germany where an elite few are able to take control of a country and engage in genocidal acts that are both in furtherance of their racist beliefs and kept secret from the public at large. Everyone knows what ISIS is doing, and the "citizens" of ISIS and many other Muslims around the world support it. If you "support" ISIS in one of these polls, you aren't expressing your support in absence of critical information. ISIS is broadcasting, repeatedly, and for the whole world to see, exactly what it is and what it intends to do. It is unequivocally evil. Unfortunately, what ISIS is doing is also unequivocally supported by fundamentalist interpretations of Islam, and is exactly the same as what Muslims did during their conquests back in the 7th and 8th Centuries (the big difference is that ISIS also wants to "purify" Islam in addition to spreading it).

So apologize for ISIS and its evil all you want, but let's not pretend that the people who support ISIS are ignorant of what ISIS is and what it is doing.

Nevertheless, it is good to see that spirit of Neville Chamberlain is alive and well.