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Your move Jordan…
I wonder why these barbarians cannot be found and destroyed. Boco Haram too…The world needs to come together and get rid of them.
(CNN)Pictures published on ISIS’s official al Furqan media site apparently show Jordanian military pilot Moaz al-Kassasbeh being burned alive while confined in a cage.
As the 47th anniversary of the My Lai atrocities approaches, we may be reminded that we have yet to rid ourselves of the barbarians living among us.
My heart is with his family.
Reading this brought back long buried memories of a patrol in Vietnam. One of our Kit Carson scouts had gone missing for two days and we assumed desertion. As we maneuvered to our extraction he was found tied to a tree. He’d been horribly mutilated and tied to that tree while still alive.
War is a horrible affair to begin with. But there is another tier of acts so barbaric and vile that they transcend even the horrors of war.
I hate saying this but my only hope is that ISIS eventually finds itself on the receiving end of the horrors they’ve visited on others. Just as our local Viet Cong found themselves on a morning back in 1968.
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It baffles that some in the region actually sympathize with the people who did this.
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These monsters just need to be destroyed! Not negotiated with! Just destroyed, all of them…Now!
And what do you propose we do
What would you think about a comment by a Red Stater who responds to a story about an atrocity by an American by changing the subject to 9/11?
You are now that guy; you just wear a different team jersey.
Yeah but how??
I don’t know… personally, I wouldn’t mess with the Jordanians.
Jordan has said it well EXECUTE Sajida al-Rishawi in retaliation…FUCK YA Jordan.
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This story is so horrifying. I doubt that King Abdullah will be cowed in the least - he’s a tough customer.
This is going to backfire, and backfire spectacularly.
I have difficulty seeing how an anecdote from our country’s fraudulently conceived interference in Viet Nam could be at all instructive about what’s going on in Syria, into Iraq and to at least some extent involving Jordan. At it’s hightest, it’s an attempt to draw lines in Hell.
How in the world people steeped in an honor-based culture think visiting a horror like this will cause other people steeped in an honor-based culture to become discouraged and go home is beyond me. The “man of action” mentality at work.
If coffee shop musings over the ideal state for this world, it’s peoples, their daily lives and their economics is as close as folks like you will ever get to the real day to day horrors of war I can appreciate your difficulty at making any connection Avattoir.
There are certain realities that go unnoticed and are at best mis-construed by folks who have never been impacted by the brutal realities of war on the human psyche.
And yes, perhaps my thoughts on this atrocity are an attempt to draw lines in hell. If so then by having actually experienced and witnessed them I am far more adept at drawing those lines than those who have read or heard about such from a safe distance.
Be well.
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Finding them is not the hard part. In fact, the problem is that they tend to find you.