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Originally Posted by Rags123
And will add this from 2013 I had misplaced this and just located
"Al-Qaeda in Syria: A Closer Look at ISIS (Part I) "
"In 2012, however, AQI -- which renamed itself the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) after Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. strike in 2006 -- began to bounce back. One of the factors that led to this resurgence was the Syrian uprising. In late summer 2011, ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched operatives to Syria to set up a new jihadist organization. Among them was Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, the leader of what would become JN, which officially announced itself in late January 2012. By November 2012, Jawlani had built JN into one of the opposition's best fighting forces, and locals viewed its members as fair arbiters when dealing with corruption and social services."
Al-Qaeda in Syria: A Closer Look at ISIS (Part I) - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Ignoring Syria as we did enabled this group. |
Yes, ignoring Syria, did enable this group.
Ignorance is bliss..........or is it???
I agree that we should have paid more attention to Syria's problems with ISIS.
I've never ever been a "hawk".......have always been more of a pacifist by nature.
However, ISIS causes alarm in my soul.......I just have a supremely bad feeling about it & it's ability to gain such momentum so quickly. Supposedly, even Alkaeda is afraid of them.
My purpose for posting the links to the New York Times Newspaper article as well as the Orlando Sentinel article was that the first journalist was from our neighboring state of New Hampshire.........the second one, presumably still alive, went to college in central Florida; a resident of Miami.
Everyone can make their own decision on whether to "look" or "not look"........however, in this case, "ignorance is not bliss". I never ever ever thought I would be saying that I support our air strikes, even if collateral damage occurs, however, someone has to stop these nuts who are living in the DARK AGES.
Again, ignorance is not bliss.........
Case in point.......as seen in recent WWII documentary.....
After our U.S. G.I.'s discovered the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of WWII, the local neighboring villagers claimed to NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE of what had been transpiring..............what? See link below. Also, if I recall, we made them transport & bury the dead...........we just most recently saw a documentary of it...........not a pretty sight, to say the least.
We cannot let insane people rule our world......
My heart goes out to Foley's father & mother..........who find comfort in believing he is in heaven at peace............this morning we heard that ISIS had emailed a ransom request to the family, but when they begged for mercy & some more "time" ISIS never responded back...............God forbid that they are not already in our country as sleeper cells............Great Britain is alarmed as well.
If people keep silent, history is bound to repeat itself...........I prefer to know & see what is happening, even if it is shocking.
With all of the violence on cable t.v. / movies at the cinema , etc. nowadays.......why turn puritan at barbaric acts harking back to the dark ages?
Perhaps America needs to be shocked out of its complacency........lest we be the ones suffering through the next regime of total "nuts".........barbarians called ISIS.
We all live such complacent comfortable luxurious lives, free to go where we choose at whatever time we choose........to travel in safety & peace across this great country of ours............not escaping via a treacherous climb over mountains from total insanity or witnessing young men/old men put into ditches to be slaughtered. This is not the doings of civilized people..........
Knowledge is power.........lest it happen again, perhaps this time to US.
http://phdast7.hubpages.com/hub/Waht...System-Part-II
What the average German knew about the concentration camps...........
Thomas Hale wrote, "disease – typhus, dysentery, and tuberculosis – was universal. The crematory had been operating around the clock….the stench of death and of piles of human excrement was overpowering, yet the townspeople nearby said they knew nothing of the camp.
Staff Sergeant Malachowsky, at Nordhausen with the 329
th Medical Battalion, recalled that "the smell covered the entire countryside…for miles around….when we asked these people in the town…how they could permit such a thing, they said they did not know there was a camp like that next to them."
Frequently GIs mention the proximity of camps to villages, towns, and cities and emphasize that people living nearby would have known something about the camps. PFC Dalton, with the 89th Infantry Division was quite emphatic. "I do not believe anyone could live that close to such a place and not know what was going on."