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Al Qaeda-linked group gains strength on NATO's border

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This is a very disturbing article. It appears ISIS is gaining more steam than we thought and this could be one of the most destabilizing influences in a region already devastated by constant war and power jockeying.

"The international community didn't act, Ibrahim explains, so the global jihadi response has become overwhelming. And for many, the crossing itself is a religious experience.
Ibrahim said: "When they get to the fence, they kneel and cry, they weep, like they've just met something more precious to them than their own family. They believe this land, Syria, is where God's judgment will come to pass.""

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"Many of these devout Muslims believe they are joining the final battle prophesied as happening in Syria -- known as al-Sham -- which will herald the end of the world. The recruits are ecstatic; they never thought this final fight would come in their lifetime."
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This could perhaps be a huge millenarian tinder box waiting to erupt on the border of NATO and Israel...what a shame we didn't do more at the onset. Foreign policy fail.

Al Qaeda-linked group gains strength on NATO's border - CNN.com
 
SBu said:
This is a very disturbing article. It appears ISIS is gaining more steam than we thought and this could be one of the most destabilizing influences in a region already devastated by constant war and power jockeying.




This could perhaps be a huge millenarian tinder box waiting to erupt on the border of NATO and Israel...what a shame we didn't do more at the onset. Foreign policy fail.

Al Qaeda-linked group gains strength on NATO's border - CNN.com
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I have no reason to believe that President Obama lied when he said "Al Qaeda is on the run and is being decimated." :roll:
 
what were we suposed to do?? ISIS is becoming more powerful, they are also taking the battle to Iraq.

Seems the more we "do" there , the more we screw things up. Syria is the perfect battleground for the jihadists, the reformists, the Shi'a, and the Sunni's to kill each other over.

Oh! and polio is on the rise, thanks to the inability of the Syrian medical system (which was quite good) to vaccinate.
The polio will creep over the borders with the Syian refugees.

Nothing we can do - it's a regional/proxy/sectarian/civil war

As we flew in, there were two men from Mauritania, one with a limp, accompanied by a woman from Tunisia. On another flight which we saw land, two young men with large backpacks, coming from Benghazi. On another, four Libyans, also from Benghazi.

Then a young, bearded man with a noticeably thick northern British accent, there to collect a friend from Leicester -- the pair absolutely don't want to talk, especially when I offer them a CNN business card. Then come the Egyptians, and a Gulf Arab -- he sounded Saudi -- who frantically kissed and embraced the bemused driver there to pick him up.
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SBu said:
what a shame we didn't do more at the onset. Foreign policy fail.
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What more would you have done? People were tired of being in Iraq and Afghanistan. How many wars do you want fought. If anything Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us is that we take a bad situation and make it worse.
 
CRUE CAB said:
But bu bu we kill their leaders with drone strikes.
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It's almost as if bombing someone's country and killing innocent civilians makes more of that country's citizens turn against you...
 
Deuce said:
It's almost as if bombing someone's country and killing innocent civilians makes more of that country's citizens turn against you...
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Naw, how could that be. Its Obama doing it. He is never wrong. He "has'em on the run". LOL
 
Deuce said:
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It was, but like the idiots we are. We stayed to rebuild, set up a government, hold elections, force democracy and hold trials.
Saddams military was destroyed at that time. That is when we should have packed up and split.
 
TheNextEra said:
What more would you have done? People were tired of being in Iraq and Afghanistan. How many wars do you want fought. If anything Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us is that we take a bad situation and make it worse.
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I said foreign policy fail. Not Bush is to blame or Obama is to blame outright. I'm not sure much could have been done to avert this other than being more diplomatically involved way early on with not only Syria but surrounding neighbors to have a coherent strategy probably on containment, SOFA agreement with Iraq possibly, etc. etc. Not saying this area is a foreign policy soft ball, but foreign policy fail nonetheless. The result is what important, not the intention.
 
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