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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 10 Aug 2010, 14:21 Party Bureaucrat Quote: And French. This is now official as Hollande admitted it a few days ago but showed no sign of repentance. ![]() "Fishing is part of agriculture" Gred "Loz, you are like me" Yami "I am one of the better read Marxists on this site" Gred ![]() My laws shall act more pleasure than command, And with my prick I'll govern all the land.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 21 Sep 2013, 03:08 Ideology: Trotskyism Party Member Yeqon wrote: I'm really liking what I've seen of the Iraqi Red Army. I mean: 1) they're communist, 2) they're powerful enough to shove ISIS out of part of Baghdad and have been rapidly gaining support after that. Though if ISIS blows up from the inside, which is looking more and more likely now that they've alienated anyone who isn't a fanatical Salafist (including every Shi'ite Islamist and many Sunni ones too), we'll probably have some kind of Afghanistan-style civil war between the weaker paramilitaries. The Red Army, various Iran-funded Shi'ite groups, Saudi petrodollar-backed toned-down ISIS remnants...
On a more personal note regarding ISIS, a relative of mine from Lebanon called me today asking me where the weapons I had posted pictures of earlier in the Guns thread were, and that there is now a call for Christians in the north of Lebanon to arm themselves.
What happened was that a statue of a catholic saint was desecrated in one of our mountain villages the previous night only to be followed by a black Jihadi ISIS flag that was found hanging in the center of town the next morning. Nobody is sure who's responsible, some are even speculating that it was done by fanatic right-wing phalangists who thirst for another civil war with Muslims. Anyway the residents of the town had the flag taken down and publicly burnt. Now one of the Sunni clerics from the northern Sunni city of tripoli is vowing revenge for having burnt the banner with the name of god inscribed upon it. So now there's a call to arms. A minor escalation I'll admit but an escalation nonetheless. ISIS truly is an unbelievable phenomenon. Their flags hang in Boko Haram held territory in North-eastern Nigeria and they hang all across the Middle East. It's amazing that such a backwards thinking people can be so disciplined and organized. Say what you want about religion but it has a power, a uniting force. I wish communists all around the world would learn a thing or two from our common enemy. ![]() My laws shall act more pleasure than command, And with my prick I'll govern all the land.
Obviously a communist can't support the intervention of Western imperialists.
However, one can accept their guns and money which they assume come with conditions and use them for one's own ends. Did not Lenin accept a German train ride? And look how happy on his throne the Kaiser was 16 months later.... and the Soc-Dem traitors, too. I also agree with Yeqon: now isn't the time for sectarian division but a united front to smash the islamofascist snackbars somewhat wrote: Tell that to the two Russians who are brawling it out in the "What are you watching right now?" thread! ![]() My laws shall act more pleasure than command, And with my prick I'll govern all the land.
I'm sure me and Kirvo could unite against the ISIS dzhigits if we had to
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Syria: US begins air strikes on Islamic State targets
Next up, USA defeats ISIS and we live happily ever after with absolutely no negative consequences. ![]() "By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?" - Walter Rodney
I'd sure like to see the number on the cheque signed by the Saudi royal family who are paying for the pentagon's services. Suddenly the gulf states have realised what a blunder they have caused by creating a frankenstein monster in the form of ISIL. Now the American military will kill a few more Muslims, cash in their cheques which will then result in a new generation of misguided Muslim fanatics who will make it their life's priority to kill as much American citizens as they can and so the story goes full circle.
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This isn't bad...
US Airstrikes On #Syria Are Not About #ISIS - Syrians Rejects Violation of Sovereignty ![]() My laws shall act more pleasure than command, And with my prick I'll govern all the land.
Unhappy with the airstrikes also hitting them, moderate democratic rebels could be joining ISIS:
Quote: Source I guess it could be worse, but as the airstrikes seem to have evoked mass support for ISIS in rebel areas, it probably will lead to changes in alliances. Also they got (some of) the clowns behind the underwear bomber and other crap, but the stupid safety rules and full-body scanners are probably here to stay. ![]() "Bleh, i don't even know what i'm arguing for. What a stupid rant. Disregard what i wrote." - Loz "Every time is gyros time" - Stalinista
This situation looks awfully familiar. Almost like it happened 40 years ago and made us fight an unwinnable war in the jungle.
I guess what they say is true: generals are experts in fighting the last war. ![]() Forum Rules Red_Son: Bob Avakian is the Glenn Beck of communism. "Le prolétariat; c'est moi." - King Indigo XIV Quote: I think two-three Marine divisions and more serious air support would be enough to send the whole of ISIS to hell. They have nowhere to hide.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 10 Aug 2010, 14:21 Party Bureaucrat
I believe that they have a lot of places to hide, that's the problem. They have sope support amongst the population.
![]() "Fishing is part of agriculture" Gred "Loz, you are like me" Yami "I am one of the better read Marxists on this site" Gred Loz wrote: Do you ever bother to read anything as simple as Wikipedia before writing the stupid shit that you write on this forum? Can you start by reading about the USMC, its organizational structure and mission, as well as about ISIS and its history to understand why sending 2/3 of the US naval infantry/expeditionary force that is not meant for occupations to deal with an organization that has over 7 years experience as an insurgent group in the Iraq war is a bad idea? ![]() "Bleh, i don't even know what i'm arguing for. What a stupid rant. Disregard what i wrote." - Loz "Every time is gyros time" - Stalinista
Who cares? Send in the US forces to wipe their heavy equipment and most of the troops and then the SAA and even the Iraqis could take over.
An ISIS with half its forces wouldn't be such a threat. As for the local population, they have a choice. I certainly wouldn't want to be in the shoes of those pro-ISIS tribes when the angry Kurds or whoever return.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 10 Aug 2010, 14:21 Party Bureaucrat
They don't have support in the Kurdish towns, however in Deir ez-zor and Raqqa, they have some obviously. It's said that they have 10 000 men. So if you want to take back their towns, you would need 30 000 men at least, and more than that to occupy the territory. Nasrallah believes that those US airstrikes are a danger, but that this danger can be turned into an opportunity.
![]() "Fishing is part of agriculture" Gred "Loz, you are like me" Yami "I am one of the better read Marxists on this site" Gred Loz wrote: Yeah I just wanted to be mean to you because it's funny. At this point, the SAA and ISIS still don't have enough points of contact to really go head-to-head as there's still a lot of snackbars in the way, as well as in the south around Daraa. I doubt that things will get easier if al-Nusra and other short bus jihadi groups join with ISIS (their leadership would probably get purged in the best traditions of ISIS blockbusters to prevent another fitna). As for their heavy equipment, from what I read (briefly) their skill at using it is still at the level of filling up a BMP with explosives and sending a suicide bomber to blow up a base. They've been getting their asses handed to them in conventional battles with the SAA that weren't surrounded air bases in Mennagh and Raqqa. As for the Kurds, the YPG has been holding up a friendly neutrality with Assad where their leader does not want an independent Kurdistan, and the SAA patrols their major cities like Hasakah. The Syrian government in its statements also considers Kurds its citizens and has been bombing ISIS positions in the latter's offensive on Kobane, though that has not been very effective. It is possible that this phase of the conflict will push the YPG even closer together because by comparison, the armed opposition , that one Kurd group that sided with the FSA and local YPG promised to attack ISIS from the back as they have some territory nearby, but ended up just sitting on their ass the whole time. ![]() "Bleh, i don't even know what i'm arguing for. What a stupid rant. Disregard what i wrote." - Loz "Every time is gyros time" - Stalinista
In my humble opinion I don't think ISIL is going anywhere for a very long time. I don't believe in a final military solution, neither do I believe in a single word that comes out of the Pentagon or western governments. They have proven time and time again that their word is worth absolutely nothing. Military intervention may help, but I wouldn't put my money on it. It has failed in the past and there is no reason to believe that it could work now.
Sometimes one has to admit the obvious, which is that the west fragged up big time in giving birth to the new era of Islamic Jihad, and by now there most probably is nothing anyone can do to make it disappear for at least another full generation, no matter how hard you try. Any semblance of secular Arab unity and pride in the Levant died with Saddam Hussein, who alongside the Al-Assad family were the only ones capable of putting sectarianism in its place. Say whatever you want about Saddam, but one day 50 years from now when my grandchildren (who would have by then completely lost and forgotten their Arab roots) ask me about my youth, I will tell them that there was a time when you could absolutely regardless of what religion you followed, get in a car and drive the entire span of the Levant from Beirut to Baghdad without a visa back and forth without ever allowing the slightest thought of being robbed, blown up, let alone beheaded cross your mind. And when to their amazement they ask me how such stability, security, and secularism was possible in such a backwards thinking hellish place, I will tell them it was because great men like Saddam Hussein and Hafez Al-Assad ruled. But then again let us hope for everybody's sake that I don't know what the frag I'm talking about. ![]() My laws shall act more pleasure than command, And with my prick I'll govern all the land. Quote: That's one for the annals. |
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