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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 5, 2015 at 7:13 pm
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(February 5, 2015 at 6:41 pm)Nope Wrote: This might be a stupid question but why don't the countries in the Middle East band together to fight against ISIS? Aren't they afraid that ISIS will one day try to take over their countries also? They are. But they also face a credibility problem with their citizens who distrust the U.S. since we are leading the coalition.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 5, 2015 at 7:42 pm
(February 5, 2015 at 6:41 pm)Nope Wrote: This might be a stupid question but why don't the countries in the Middle East band together to fight against ISIS? Aren't they afraid that ISIS will one day try to take over their countries also?
NPR was reporting yesterday that the OIC is doing exactly that. I'm on my phone and cannot easily link, but I'll do so when I get home tonight.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 5, 2015 at 7:47 pm
(February 5, 2015 at 6:41 pm)Nope Wrote: This might be a stupid question but why don't the countries in the Middle East band together to fight against ISIS? Aren't they afraid that ISIS will one day try to take over their countries also?
For the same reason they couldn't band together to fight the Israelis. They hate each other almost as much as they hate their common foes.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 5, 2015 at 7:50 pm
I haven't watched the news in the past couple of days. Thanks. Wow. Things change quickly.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 5, 2015 at 7:56 pm
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(February 5, 2015 at 7:50 pm)Nope Wrote: I haven't watched the news in the past couple of days. Thanks. Wow. Things change quickly. Quote:In a joint statement, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, said they "will do their share" to fight against the jihadist group that has taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-ten-arab-n...is-1465106
The article is from five months ago. I don't know what "doing their share" has actually translated into though.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 6, 2015 at 5:46 am
I don't understand how someone can watch their group burn someone alive and go 'yep, we're the good guys here, we're the ones in the right'. I mean, there's rumours of ISIS cruicifiying and burying children alive and using mentally challenged ones as sucide bombers. How can anybody think that they are on the right side after things like that?
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 6, 2015 at 10:31 am
Quote:In a joint statement, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, said they "will do their share" to fight against the jihadist group that has taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Well, isn't that just a coalition of righteousness. Throw in some American involvement and what could go wrong?
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 7, 2015 at 6:52 pm
(February 4, 2015 at 6:11 pm)Faith No More Wrote: It's so horrific that it's even gotten groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian government to agree on something.
Quote:AMMAN, Jordan — There was one feeling that many of the Middle East’s fractious clerics, competing ethnic groups and warring sects could agree on Wednesday: a shared sense of revulsion at the Islamic State’s latest excess, its video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive inside a cage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/world/...c=rss&_r=0
Slamming planes full of unarmed civilians, meh, that's ok.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 8, 2015 at 2:08 am
(February 6, 2015 at 5:46 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: I don't understand how someone can watch their group burn someone alive and go 'yep, we're the good guys here, we're the ones in the right'. I mean, there's rumours of ISIS cruicifiying and burying children alive and using mentally challenged ones as sucide bombers. How can anybody think that they are on the right side after things like that? I mean if you're going to burn someone alive at least do it from a video game console 1000 miles away.
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RE: Woman explains Jordan's response.
February 8, 2015 at 6:34 am
(February 6, 2015 at 5:46 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: I don't understand how someone can watch their group burn someone alive and go 'yep, we're the good guys here, we're the ones in the right'. I mean, there's rumours of ISIS cruicifiying and burying children alive and using mentally challenged ones as sucide bombers. How can anybody think that they are on the right side after things like that?
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