The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

[The Brain]

You can't say that. But it got said!

[CountDeMoney]

So would her husband.

LOL DOUBLE ENTENDRE

[Zoupa]

Yi is a little rascal. Dude did you ever try the internet dating thing?

I showed him a couple websites when we met but the old man was reluctant 

[Admiral Yi]

Dude, all the chicks you dialed up were fugs.  You said so yourself.

[mongers]

Yi is a little rascal. Dude did you ever try the internet dating thing?

I showed him a couple websites when we met but the old man was reluctant 

Hang on, I thought that was the whole raison d'état for this place; mature men gathering to meet and impress young eligible women. 

[Eddie Teach]

Is that why you brought Swallow here? 

[Ed Anger]

http://theaviationist.com/2014/09/26/b-1-over-fallujah/

:murderboner:

[garbon]

I still don't understand these constant threats from Islamic militants about attacking US. Have we shown a tendency to give up when attacked on our own soil?

[Admiral Yi]

I still don't understand these constant threats from Islamic militants about attacking US. Have we shown a tendency to give up when attacked on our own soil?

Maybe they're aiming for "reduce American civil liberties" victory.

[Jacob]

I still don't understand these constant threats from Islamic militants about attacking US. Have we shown a tendency to give up when attacked on our own soil?

I don't think that figures into it. I think there are two separate dynamics underlying "threats at the US".

1) A significant part of the US are motivated by threats against it and see them everywhere (witness outlandish statements about ebola and ISIS attacking America through illegal Mexican migrants for example). Thus threats against the US are played up by people who want to wield the US as a weapon against their own local enemies or are otherwise served by the threats being taken seriously.

2) The US is still viewed by many as the paragon and source of whatever conflict with modernity various groups have. It's viewed (sometimes accurately, more times inaccurately) as providing funding, ideological, and cultural support for local factions that the threat-utterer is opposed to. Thus threatening to attack America is a way to stake out a position in the local political conflicts.

I think on top of that there's also a moral conviction on the threatener's part that the US is soft, and if you hit it hard enough and long enough it will eventually crumble. I think that has less to do with the US "giving up" and more about the fact that attacking the US successfully brings a lot of status and followers and funding.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yi is a little rascal. Dude did you ever try the internet dating thing?

I showed him a couple websites when we met but the old man was reluctant 

Hang on, I thought that was the whole raison d'état for this place; mature men gathering to meet and impress young eligible women.

Raison d'État can get you killed but you need a raison d'être to live.

[Valmy]

I still don't understand these constant threats from Islamic militants about attacking US. Have we shown a tendency to give up when attacked on our own soil?

Maybe they're aiming for "reduce American civil liberties" victory.

The terrorists have won

[The Brain]

I still don't understand these constant threats from Islamic militants about attacking US. Have we shown a tendency to give up when attacked on our own soil?

Maybe they're aiming for "reduce American civil liberties" victory.

The terrorists have won

Korea has more.

[mongers]

Yi is a little rascal. Dude did you ever try the internet dating thing?

I showed him a couple websites when we met but the old man was reluctant 

Hang on, I thought that was the whole raison d'état for this place; mature men gathering to meet and impress young eligible women.

Raison d'État can get you killed but you need a raison d'être to live.

Damn auto complete.

[CountDeMoney]

Raison d'bread.