"US ups pressure on IS with first B-52 bomber strike" https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-sends-legendary-b-52-bomber-action-against-182402057.html Calling in the big guns, Bout time!
This is not the answer. More destruction of communities more dead civilians. Bombs are not gonna stop Isis. Lack of $$$$ will. The US and Saudis have to stop funding it.
Arch, do you have irrefutable proof that the US is somehow funding IS? Maybe Hezbollah or something, but your theory on this one is a bit farfetched.
It would seem odd to fund a terrorist organization and then turn around and blow them up, seems like a waste of money, but that's just my common sense at work. But who knows, there's been crazier things happen in this f'ed up world, so I guess anything is possible lol
I agree, anything is possible with any gubmint, especially ours. But stating that we are funding them without a speck of hard evidence is irresponsible.
Agreed, but it's Archy, it what he does. This is the part where he'll go find some rag mag and send us a link to confirm his theory and enlighten us all.
Who knows. I don't think we are funding ISIS but we have done it with other countries far too many times in the past. Let's just say I wouldn't be surprised. We invoke civil wars in other countries to put puppets that we control in power. We sell arms to many enemies and then go to war with them. The **** that the CIA has pulled in Iran and Syria also blows my mind. I really hope we aren't funding ISIS but we tend to send money to countries who fund them.
If they're being funded by US dollars it's indirectly i'm sure. We have to stop sending money to other countries and take care of our own. It weakens our country and strengthens others.
We as a country need to become less dependent on oil. Alternative and renewable energy sources have to become more and more utilized for this to happen. If we can get off the oil teet, then we can get out of bed with the Middle Easterners and be more self reliant as a Nation. Problem is too many hands are in the cookie jar and nobody wants to give up the $$$ from this industry. Plus, alternative and renewable energy sources need to come down in price and make it more accessible to the little guy encouraging people to turn in their gas guzzlers (i'm guilty of owning one). And that's just scratching the surface, it's not just the gas / oil we put in our cars, it's all types of products, but this would be a big start.
Everybody gets hung up on Oil as being primarily used for energy as well as filling our vehicles. The reality is that Oil, as a chemical, probably has a footprint in maybe 80% of what the world manufactures...think about that. Until technology catches up, we will continue to need Oil as a basic building block for way too much of our current basic needs.
It's dirty job, but someone's gotta do it, i have small hands though, so this probably won't work out so hot Agreed, but it's a start, and we gotta start somewhere / sometime. Control what we can control and work on the rest later. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, right?
ODC MIS-wank-o-sore-ass, don't be mad....change your rag & understand the simple truth of what I've said: Don't let more people into America who have as their ideology hate combined with death to unbelievers as well as ownership of women as property.
Consider the 1.6 billion in number source of the problems......aaaaaannnnndddd.......don't let more people into America who have as their ideology hate combined with death to unbelievers as well as ownership of women as property.
Looks like Europe finally woke up to their new reality. Gates are closed. And what do wealthy nations do with poor-er nations....? What else: buy them off. Turkey is so long-term screwed. "More than one million people passed through Turkey en route to Europe since the beginning of last year. Most were coming from war-torn countries, and about half were Syrians. Under a new agreement, Europe is sending refugees back to Turkey if they enter Greece illegally. In exchange, the European Union offered Turkey 6 billion euros (about $6.8 billion) to help with the crisis. Now Turkey is scrambling to create long-term solutions for millions of people it had expected to house temporarily."