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Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

Larry Parrish posted:

The only expansion on the GWOT I would support would be tactical strikes on every living member of the House of Saud

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fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'



The Taliban is now extremely good and cool again, the 80s are back!

Comrade Cheggorsky
Aug 20, 2011


I would like to dedicate this post to the gallant people of Afghanistan

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/904630748765966336

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/904631221057183744

Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 10:12 on Sep 4, 2017

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Remember how liberals used to worship the lady lol

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

imo they're taking advantage of the Trump administration to see how much ethnic cleansing they can get away with, when it's against Muslims.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

imo they're taking advantage of the Trump administration to see how much ethnic cleansing they can get away with, when it's against Muslims.

meanwhile

https://twitter.com/imraansiddiqi/status/904871741255593985

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/904591038920220672

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm so glad we have this giant war machine theoretically devoted to peacekeeping missions

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_z_pG7x8T0

Real News just did a half hour interview and Q&A with Lawrence Wilkerson on North Korea, our bad faith efforts at negotiating with them, and all the reasons they're not actually an existential threat.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:thunk: what do you mean this nation with barely a 10th of the population of the USA isn't a threat

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/905407738846564352

at least somebody cares :shrug:

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

Larry Parrish posted:

I'm so glad we have this giant war machine theoretically devoted to peacekeeping missions

Peacekeeping? Peacekeeping has been off-shored, much cheaper to hire a foreign contractor. Fiji and Nepal have cut-throat rates.

USA has payed to keep 22,000 AU forces in Somalia for ten years now. Not the troops, they often don't receive pay for six, 10, 12+ months in a row. President of Burundi is making out pretty good though.

BTW the US has bombed Somalia at least 13 times this year, in case you haven't kept track. Not so impressive considering we were flattening whole Libyan cities just last year but there's no indication we're going to stop anytime soon, so it keeps adding up.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm aware of the extent of the GWOTs horror. It's just like, it would be nice if we kept up the part where we use the military to send doctors to fight Ebola or distribute MREs and not the part where we blow apart a neighborhood and kill 60 people to get like 2 'combatants'

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/906861612295970818

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Larry Parrish posted:

I'm aware of the extent of the GWOTs horror. It's just like, it would be nice if we kept up the part where we use the military to send doctors to fight Ebola or distribute MREs and not the part where we blow apart a neighborhood and kill 60 people to get like 2 'combatants'

remember when we sent doctors as part of a vaccination program

only the vaccination program was actually a CIA ruse to find bin Laden

and then NGO doctors started getting driven out and attacked as potential spies

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Main Paineframe posted:

remember when we sent doctors as part of a vaccination program

only the vaccination program was actually a CIA ruse to find bin Laden

and then NGO doctors started getting driven out and attacked as potential spies

Has the CIA ever done anything that wasn't evil and also backfired and hurt the USA more than doing nothing would have

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Larry Parrish posted:

Has the CIA ever done anything that wasn't evil and also backfired and hurt the USA more than doing nothing would have

IIRC it's actually the State Department that does more to discredit NGOs by using them to infiltrate spies.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

whatever you do, never, ever talk to another human being

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Dreylad posted:

whatever you do, never, ever talk to another human being

I need some photographic analysis to determine if this post has any Iranian influence

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Actually, Hamilton68 is for finding the influence of foreign powers on our posts

http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

IIRC it's actually the State Department that does more to discredit NGOs by using them to infiltrate spies.

Well yeah but the State Department is unquestionably retarded

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/2flamesburning1/status/910217557885505538

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/912101521197846528

Love to kick 'em while they're down.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Is the rational for Chad because it borders Libya? Because so do Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

KiteAuraan posted:

Is the rational for Chad because it borders Libya? Because so do Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

There's an active Islamist insurgency in Chad, so of course we can't risk the chance of one of them taking a plane to the United States and attacking us here for our freedoms.

Sudan was also going to be on the list, but the Saudis had us remove them because they're trying to get the Sudanese to help them in Yemen.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Pener Kropoopkin posted:

There's an active Islamist insurgency in Chad, so of course we can't risk the chance of one of them taking a plane to the United States and attacking us here for our freedoms.

Sudan was also going to be on the list, but the Saudis had us remove them because they're trying to get the Sudanese to help them in Yemen.

I notice Nigeria is not on the list, despite you know, Boko Haram existing.

Goddammit you racist fucks just admit it's a Muslim Ban and take your beating.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

KiteAuraan posted:

I notice Nigeria is not on the list, despite you know, Boko Haram existing.

Goddammit you racist fucks just admit it's a Muslim Ban and take your beating.

Not a Muslim ban, not a Muslim ban, North Korea and Venezuela are on there too. :smugdon:

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

GWOT has been a smashing success everyone.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I don't get the Venezuela part at all

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Larry Parrish posted:

I don't get the Venezuela part at all

regime change time

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
[quote="“Larry Parrish”" post="“476754477”"]
I don’t get the Venezuela part at all
[/quote]

Venezuela doesn’t even have a blanket ban like the others and it’s pretty narrowly targeted at government officials so it’s probably much more limited in human damage.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

ISIS just claimed responsibility for the Las Vegas shooting.

https://twitter.com/laylasafavi/status/915003723939594241

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Main Paineframe posted:

remember when we sent doctors as part of a vaccination program

only the vaccination program was actually a CIA ruse to find bin Laden

and then NGO doctors started getting driven out and attacked as potential spies

Holy poo poo I forgot all about this. The CIA is loving useless, abolish that poo poo. RON PAUL 2012

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
it really loving sucks that any time any group is established as safe and neutral and given free movement in otherwise-hostile areas, intelligence agents immediately start exploiting that

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

KiteAuraan posted:

Is the rational for Chad because it borders Libya? Because so do Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

Virgin POTUS terrified of the Chad Chad

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/troops-killed-ambush-joint-niger-patrol-171005041922809.html

quote:

Five Nigerien and three US special forces were killed and others wounded in an ambush on a joint patrol in southwest Niger.

The attack, which occurred on Wednesday night, marks the first US combat casualties in Niger, where Washington provides training and security assistance in the fight against armed groups in the Sahel region.

"We can confirm reports that a joint US and Nigerien patrol came under hostile fire in southwest Niger," a spokesperson of the US Africa Command told Radio France International (RFI) by telephone.

According to RFI, the ambush took place after fighters from Mali attacked the village of Tongo Tongo in Tillaberi. A counter-operation was launched, but the US and Niger soldiers fell into a trap, according to the radio report.

Namatta Abubacar, an official for the region of Tillaberi, told Niger TV that five Nigerian soldiers were among the dead.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but the area is largely controlled by fighters, including members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

I hope I can live to see Trump misspell that country's name on TV

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
saudi arabia is cozying up with putin now since nobody can trust trump to stick with a deal, so alliances might get a shakeup soon

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Plutonis posted:

I hope I can live to see Trump misspell that country's name on TV

For a very long time, we have been working to fight Al Qaeda - and ISIS - with the government of Kneegair.

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Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Bip Roberts posted:

Venezuela doesn’t even have a blanket ban like the others and it’s pretty narrowly targeted at government officials so it’s probably much more limited in human damage.

the venezuela 'ban' is pretty clearly in the 'better throw some non-muslim countries in here so it looks better in court' category

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