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Jordanian response

#1 Post by SR » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:39 pm

They're pissed. If they mount the kind of accelerated response they've promised, is it a good thing?

I have to wonder if there are intelligence advantages to their newfound conviction in this matter.

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Re: Jordanian response

#2 Post by mockbee » Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:06 pm

This is all not good. No matter which way they go. I would guess way worse with a strong offensive response. There is no "defeating" this enemy.

This is really bad. Jordan was one of the most stable places over there.

I thought I had ample time to plan a trip there someday. I would be worried being caught out, wrong place/wrong time, somewhere now. :conf:

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Re: Jordanian response

#3 Post by SR » Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:10 pm

Defeat/diminish......the key will be a concentrated effort by Muslims in the region.

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Re: Jordanian response

#4 Post by Bandit72 » Fri Feb 06, 2015 6:04 am

IS will have some sympathisers. It's not good, although you can understand why they are going in hard. The UK won't up the ante till after our general election in May. I have a suspicion we may get an 'event' here just before the elections to accelerate the decision to send troops back in or increase our air strikes ten fold.

Which I guess is what the Islamic State want.

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Re: Jordanian response

#5 Post by SR » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:05 am

And 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded.....adorable. I am getting to the point where my last nerve is done with these people.

and Egypt responds with immediate airstrikes,

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/ ... 0D20150216

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Re: Jordanian response

#6 Post by erotic cheeses » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:25 pm

What a wonderful world we live in. The god(s) must be delighted...

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#7 Post by SR » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:17 pm

erotic cheeses wrote:What a wonderful world we live in. The god(s) must be delighted...
:nod:

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Re: Jordanian response

#9 Post by SR » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:52 am

Bandit72 wrote:This is an interesting article

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arc ... ts/384980/
Yes, and rich with information. This environment is just too rich in nutrients for the disaffected, disavowed, and altogether insane. And since IS has re-interpreted and widely expanded the parameters/definitions of what an infidel is, they are far more dangerous. The hope that their overzealousness and zeal might destroy them is crazy to me, but this article needs to be read more than once.

Good find; thank you.

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Re: Jordanian response

#10 Post by SR » Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:24 am

and more charming news. 45 more burned to death....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31502863

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Re: Jordanian response

#11 Post by guysmiley » Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:39 am

I hope everyone dies. I'm getting closer to my wish day by day. :flip:

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Re: Jordanian response

#12 Post by Hype » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:46 pm

guysmiley wrote:I hope everyone dies. I'm getting closer to my wish day by day. :flip:
The problem with this wish is that it's either trivial (everyone dies, dude... senescence is a bitch), or absurd, since the wish/hope supposes that there's a reason to hope that everyone dies, but the actualization of such a state of affairs can't satisfy the wish, because dead people can't hold onto their wishes.

I think we should probably just not bother hoping for anything, and instead just get busy dying as nicely as possible.

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Re: Jordanian response

#13 Post by erotic cheeses » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:59 pm

Probably the most sensible thing /thing I agree with from hyper Eva

Well said that man

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Re: Jordanian response

#14 Post by Bandit72 » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:25 am

Adurentibus Spina wrote:I think we should probably just not bother hoping for anything, and instead just get busy dying as nicely as possible.
I hope you are suggesting 'hope' is different from 'action' in this case.

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Re: Jordanian response

#15 Post by Hype » Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:51 am

Hope is really just a desire for something in the future that you want to happen out of fear that something you don't want, which you perceive as likely to happen, or to continue happening.

That desire is, for the most part, useless, because it doesn't guide action. That is, it doesn't provide good reasons to do anything. If there is a good reason to do something, it's a good reason precisely because in doing it, there's no need to hope that it works -- its being a reason is proof that it will work, all other things being equal. Humans (like other animals) tend to become very superstitious and tribal when they're frightened or angry or confused. Hence the Jordanians rallying around their "action-hero King", in the hopes that he'll magically save the entire region.

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