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Author Topic: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.  (Read 208247 times)

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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1890 on: June 20, 2017, 11:45:30 am »
The Trump doctrine: Shoot everyting that moves, yet call every shot fired an 'incident'.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1891 on: June 20, 2017, 11:57:26 am »
Quote from: martinuzz on June 20, 2017, 11:45:30 am
The Trump doctrine: Shoot everyting that moves, yet call every shot fired an 'incident'.

I dont think it was any different under the two previous administrations. Or five.
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« Reply #1892 on: June 20, 2017, 05:07:42 pm »
I read that as "accident".
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1893 on: June 21, 2017, 08:19:10 am »
So Saudi Arabia officially made Mohammed bin Salman crown prince in a kind of palace coup. Given his young age (31) and the age of his father (82) he is likely to have a very long reign in front of him.
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« Reply #1894 on: June 21, 2017, 08:24:21 am »
Quote from: Sheb on June 21, 2017, 08:19:10 am
So Saudi Arabia officially made Mohammed bin Salman crown prince in a kind of palace coup. Given his young age (31) and the age of his father (82) he is likely to have a very long reign in front of him.

Given that there were concerns over his health (which hasn't been real great), not surprising that they made his son crown regent over him. Kind of like if Queen Elizabeth had Alzheimers (she doesn't, I'm just making an example) and either Charles or one of their grandsons took over due to the Queens declining health.
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« Reply #1895 on: June 21, 2017, 09:03:45 am »
The news is not so much that they have a Crown Prince, but that they booted Muhammad bin Nayef to get Mohammed bin Salman in its place. Also as far as I know bin Salman isn't regent, even if many sees him as the de facto ruler of KSA.
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« Reply #1896 on: June 21, 2017, 09:15:18 am »
Sounds more like the King paying attention to popular opinion, but according to the CNN article, he's been hugely active in politics and pushing for reform.
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« Reply #1897 on: June 21, 2017, 04:49:31 pm »
Isis has blown up the Grand Mosque of Mosul before the Iraqi Government forces could recapture it, according to reports.
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« Reply #1898 on: June 21, 2017, 05:16:06 pm »
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Isis has blown up the Grand Mosque of Mosul before the Iraqi Government forces could recapture it, according to reports.

That's an earlt 12th century mosque. The bastards.
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« Reply #1899 on: June 21, 2017, 07:36:29 pm »
Quote from: Sheb on June 21, 2017, 05:16:06 pm
Quote from: Strife26 on June 21, 2017, 04:49:31 pm
Isis has blown up the Grand Mosque of Mosul before the Iraqi Government forces could recapture it, according to reports.

That's an earlt 12th century mosque. The bastards.
God damn them to hell, also, sack religious much?
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« Reply #1900 on: June 21, 2017, 07:40:04 pm »
Quote from: redwallzyl on June 21, 2017, 07:36:29 pm
Quote from: Sheb on June 21, 2017, 05:16:06 pm
Quote from: Strife26 on June 21, 2017, 04:49:31 pm
Isis has blown up the Grand Mosque of Mosul before the Iraqi Government forces could recapture it, according to reports.

That's an earlt 12th century mosque. The bastards.
God damn them to hell, also, sack religious much?

Fall of their Iraq capital. Not surprising that they'd blow landmarks, especially after the Iraqi Government made a goal of taking the Mosque for the end of Ramadan.
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« Reply #1901 on: June 21, 2017, 07:45:18 pm »
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« Reply #1902 on: June 21, 2017, 08:08:35 pm »
Quote from: redwallzyl on June 21, 2017, 07:45:18 pm
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/21/533810796/botched-choice-for-afghan-army-uniforms-wasted-tens-of-millions-of-u-s-dollars

Top quality American engineering and design folks.

Tens of millions are mostly pocket change, and that article is definitely making it look like the Afghanis made a shitty spending choice with American money. Could very well have been a night political kerfuffle if we'd backed out. Nation building is a shitty enterprise.
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« Reply #1903 on: June 21, 2017, 11:42:23 pm »
That is pretty interesting, because US itself uses the pattern, M81 Woodland, a lot in Afghanistan... Or used to, anyway.

What I think probably happened here, was that the Afghans had already been given surplus BDU uniforms with the woodland pattern since 2005 or so, and they just ordered more of the same.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1904 on: June 22, 2017, 01:40:51 am »
That Mosque is also where al-Bagdahdi proclaimed the Caliphate back in the days.
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