Did the Terrorists Win?

[Shining_Finger]

To make Terrorists look like Dumbasses. Far to often are the people who become ISIS fighters called Intelligent. 

Because the real stupidity lies in underestimating the other side. You know, the kind of stupidity that gave us Iraq and laid the groundwork for the formation of ISIS.

The real stupidity lies in Reagan funding terrorists to defeat communists and then everybody thinking it is a good idea to fund terrorists to beat those terrorists.

[abaris]

The real stupidity lies in Reagan funding terrorists to defeat communists and then everybody thinking it is a good idea to fund terrorists to beat those terrorists.

Exactly. And that's the reason why it's not particularly funny.

[The Grand Nudger]

Judging by the sorry state of their places of origin.....I'd have to say no.  They fucked themselves and everyone they'd ever known, hard.  It was already bad, they made it worse.

Good job, terrorists, really giving it to the Great Satan!

[abaris]

Good job, terrorists, really giving it to the Great Satan!

Curious, I thought you were living in the patriot acted USA and exposed to Snowdens little bedtime stories. Yeah, they really gave in, while we were busy fucking our own societies up the glory hole.

[The Grand Nudger]

Nah, I went and stomped on people in strange and exotic foreign shitholes - I wasn't living here at the time.  Patriot act and all....I'm not going to be emigrating to any of the places we leveled in reprisal. -That-, more than anything, was the effect of their actions.....they pursauded John Q to let loose of the chain holding his dogs at bay....to everyone's detriment...but mostly their own. I just can't see that they'd thought it through very well. Let me ask you this, if you thought your was neighbor was -evil incarnate- and your neighbor also happened to have a vast and generational military fetish combined with a deep wallet and even deeper set of racial/cultural resentments......would you give him a reason to engage in that fetish /w those you left behind you?

[houseofcantor]

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Judging by the sorry state of their places of origin.....I'd have to say no.  They fucked themselves and everyone they'd ever known, hard.  It was already bad, they made it worse.

Good job, terrorists, really giving it to the Great Satan!

The ME was never a haven of tranquility I agree. People were murdering other tribes long before the west was even a thing. There was that hole gas Thing with Saddam a few years back, and the Kurds have never had it particularly easy what with the Turkish oppression and attempted genocide and all.

As to whether they have 'won'? There are now body scanners which effectively make me naked to strangers behind a screen. I'd say that in some respects they have yes.