The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

[mongers]

Well they murdered the Japanese journalist; time for Japan to get medieval with ISIL?

I image something  like the 1930s Japanese Imperial Army would make very short work of these Islamists, but probably with unacceptable levels of collateral damage.

[dps]

Well they murdered the Japanese journalist; time for Japan to get medieval with ISIL?

I image something  like the 1930s Japanese Imperial Army would make very short work of these Islamists, but probably with unacceptable levels of collateral damage.

Unacceptable in whose terms?  That of the 1930s West, that of the current West, or that of the 1930s Japanese Imperial Army.  Well, forget that last one;  to them there was not such thing as collateral damage.  Come to think of it, that would fit in pretty well in the Middle East.

[Admiral Yi]

Well they murdered the Japanese journalist; time for Japan to get medieval with ISIL?

They'd need to change their constitution first.  And even then probably not.

[Ed Anger]

The A-10 Warthog has performed 11 percent of US Air Force sorties against the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS.

[OttoVonBismarck]

So why is it with ISIS everyone seems to care so much about people they behead? From 2003-2010 or so during the heavy phase of our fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq a lot of Westerners were beheaded by the insurgent/terrorist groups in those two countries, and also caught on video shared on the Internet. Why the hype for ISIS? It feels like I have to read about some idiot getting his throat slit and his head hacked off every week as front page news, which frankly to me it isn't. People dying in war zones is expected.

[citizen k]

The A-10 Warthog has performed 11 percent of US Air Force sorties against the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SE6VCn3pR8

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, it's almost as everybody has forgotten the Americans and the Brits that A-Q In Iraq had decapitated on video after the Iraq war was declared MISSHUN ACKOMPLISHED.  Those videos were fucking barbaric.  This isn't the first time, folks.

[Razgovory]

I read that the US has admitted to killing a high up Hezbollah guy back in 2008.

[Ed Anger]

The A-10 Warthog has performed 11 percent of US Air Force sorties against the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SE6VCn3pR8

[Admiral Yi]

The coverage of Iraqi beheadings and ISIS beheadings seems roughly comparable to me.

[CountDeMoney]

I read that the US has admitted to killing a high up Hezbollah guy back in 2008.

Mughniyah?  Yeah, that fucking piece of shit had run up quite the tab over the years, and it was time to collect on his ass.  I'm glad the CIA was involved in twisting that motherfucker's cap back. 

[11B4V]

They should just scalp folks, then release them.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Whatever happened to traditional beheadings in which you actually cut the guy's head off to kill them. Most of these people are having their throats slit and then they just hack/saw the head off the already dead body. Middle Ages Euro rulers would be shocked at their incompetence in head-removal.

[mongers]

Whatever happened to traditional beheadings in which you actually cut the guy's head off to kill them. Most of these people are having their throats slit and then they just hack/saw the head off the already dead body. Middle Ages Euro rulers would be shocked at their incompetence in head-removal.

That's why I support some Japanese militarists going over there and teaching them how it's done.

[DGuller]

Whatever happened to traditional beheadings in which you actually cut the guy's head off to kill them. Most of these people are having their throats slit and then they just hack/saw the head off the already dead body. Middle Ages Euro rulers would be shocked at their incompetence in head-removal.

Having your throat slit kills you, but it doesn't kill you that quickly.