The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

It's a shame Isis worship isn't making a comeback.

[Valmy]

apropos of the US efforts to halt the 1972 NVA invasion, they flew over 15,000 sorties.

So...do you want the US to intervene or not?  You seem to be supporting and opposing both positions at the same time.

[Valmy]

It's a shame Isis worship isn't making a comeback.

Right?  If only that sort of Isis was spreading across the Middle East.

[derspiess]

apropos of the US efforts to halt the 1972 NVA invasion, they flew over 15,000 sorties.

So...do you want the US to intervene or not?  You seem to be supporting and opposing both positions at the same time.

The North Vietnamese took a beating in 1972.  I'm not sure what he's getting at.

[Ed Anger]

apropos of the US efforts to halt the 1972 NVA invasion, they flew over 15,000 sorties.

So...do you want the US to intervene or not?  You seem to be supporting and opposing both positions at the same time.

The North Vietnamese took a beating in 1972.  I'm not sure what he's getting at.

Bomb Vietnam.

[CountDeMoney]

We should've left another Saddam Hussein in charge, our Saddam Hussein.  There were plenty of Sunni generals to choose from, but nooooo....

I've been saying that since before we invaded.

And I've been saying the result of "democracy" was going to be the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iraq.  Misshun Akkcomblisheded.

[Siege]

Until the next reason to hate us happened.

We made everybody who was a close ally of us regret it with that Iraq invasion.  Probably not the best international strategy.

Still better than Obama, who have lost every Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc.

[alfred russel]

We should drop Erik Spoelstra into ISIS territory. Maybe he will assume tactical control, which will cause the ISIS to be routed. Maybe he will be decapitated in a grainy video. Either way, we win.

[derspiess]

Lol, yeah.  Not exactly the best leader.

[sbr]

Erik Spoelstra is the same age as me and went to high school in the Portland area; he went to the local Jesuit High School.  They happened to be in the same league as the high school I went to.  When they came to our school for basketball games we all yelled/chanted 'gook' at him whenever he had the ball. 

[Admiral Yi]

Is he half Korean?

[sbr]

Is he half Korean?

Phillipino

His mother, Elisa, is a native of San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines.

[jimmy olsen]

apropos of the US efforts to halt the 1972 NVA invasion, they flew over 15,000 sorties.

Yeah? And if we'd done the same in 1975 there'd still be a South Vietnam.

[Hansmeister]

Obama is not the world's policeman.

No, but the US bombed and invaded the country and left before the reconstruction job was fully done.

We left when the elected government of Iraq requested we leave.  What were we supposed to say 'NO PUPPETS YOU BELONG TO US'?  That would have helped the reconstruction project along

They didn't ask us to leave.  In the contrary, they wanted a SOFA with up to 15,000 US troops.  It was Obama who torpedoed the SOFA.

Or more precisely, Obama simply refused to answer the request for the SOFA, as usual, Obama voted present on his own foreign policy.

[Jaron]

Damn Obama. Is it 2016 yet?