Syria, Iraq, and the Road To Hell

[test_recordings]

I almost visited that area, north Africa etc around the time that shit kicked off, my mate showed me some sick hotels

[_ronzlo_]

(fast forward to now)

~ ISIS in control of 2 of Iraq's biggest cities

~ Were in control of Tikrit, not 200 km from Baghdad, and marching on the latter (although this is being debated with the Iraqi gov't saying they've reclaimed it.)

~ Looted a bank in Mosul of almost half a billion dollars (US)

~ Widely considered to be among the best trained, organized, & funded groups active in the region

~ Iran - a Shi'a country (ISIS are hardline Sunni) - has allegedly dispatched the Revolutionary Guard to fight against them... in Iraq.

~ Al Qaeda severed ties with them a couple months ago for being - get this - too extreme.

[OGLemon]

[deadly_habit]

A good chunk of the insurgents we fought in Iraq were from Syria, we actually had incidents with their border guards and chased insurgents over the Syrian border a few times. (They used to cross at night fight in Iraq during the day) when I was stationed at Al Qaim.
When we were right on the Syrian border looking for Saddam to escape the actually motored/RPG'd the position of where our commo shelter was a day after we pulled out.
I'd be surprised if the US doesn't end up at war with them or Iran soon sadly.

[nowaysj]

Just a side note to this fiasco, I've heard that some Russian tanks and support vehicles rolled into Eastern Ukraine. I don't know if this is true.

But there is an axis that runs from Ukraine, through Syria, through Iraq. An axis of totally fucked up shit. And it also runs straight through Turkey. A very wide swath of the region is in deep conflict.

[bennyfroobs]

well this shit has progressed into even more of an absolute mess than last time i checked @_@

[nowaysj]

It is possible we're seeing the long game emerge right now.

[hubb]

I believe we are.

[hubb]

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Media will call it the hot war despite it being a joke I made up right now

[test_recordings]

Why the hot war? The media is obviously demonstrating it's ability to spin shit out, I don't want another thirty plus years of this bullshit

[nowaysj]

That is one thing I don't think you have to worry about!

[test_recordings]

Fuck off I'll easily live that out, and bequeath it to my kids if I have any...

[nowaysj]

Good chance you won't outlive the decade.

[hubb]

[nowaysj]

CIA born ISIS doing its thing in Iraq.

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[OGLemon]

I hope that we can one day live in a world without religious extremism.

[bennyfroobs]

there will always be insane zealots pushing their rancid ideologies on people ):

but ye fuk religion that shits messed up in general

[nousd]

maybe this is the big one
and the arbitrary borders will be redrawn in blood,

with a Shia federation stretching from western Afghanistan through Iran to Mediterranean Syria/part Lebanon
surrounded by Sunni nations including Pakistan,Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, and the gulf states,
whose borders have been repartitioned on ethnic grounds, and a smaller Israel.
The remnant jews, christians, zoroastrians, secularists, free-thinkers & idol-worshippers can just fuck right off.

simple

[_ronzlo_]

Fuck.

Insurgents from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria boasted on Twitter that they had executed 1,700 people, posting gruesome photos to support their claim.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/world ... /iraq.html

[nowaysj]

When they were beheading and crucifying christian villages in Syria, s'was all good. Now they're in Iraq and suddenly they're a problem?

Kind of seems like there is an agenda there.

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