Quote from: Eva on Oct 22, 2014, 11:27:49 PM
As long as everybody keeps standing in a corner and looking at their own stupid feets, the struggle against ISIS will go on and on and it will be the poorest equipped and trained soldiers we have that will be fighting them on the ground. Utterly stupid strategy. Especially considering all the land forces Nato have in bases all around the Mediterranean area.
It isn't that simple tho.
We've broken our foot off before in ISIS back when they were AQI. The Sunni Awakening nearly wiped them off the face of the planet because the Sunnis knew that if they didn't start helping thwart AQI then the US was just going to let the Shiites wipe them out.
The thing is with any force like that, they are so low tech and the infrastructure is so bad, all these dudes have to do when receiving an ass whooping is throw down their weapons, run over the border to a place like Syria, lick their wounds, reorganize, resupply and come back to start it all over again.
It also doesn't help that we totally waste things like the Sunni Awakening. Instead of promoting the heads of that movement into the Iraqi government through political maneuvering, we left it up to the Shiite government who instead ignored them for years afterwards, separated them from the government and basically told them to f**k off. So now the Sunni's that originally kicked the shit out of their extremist brethren are much more likely to join ISIS than they ever were close to joining AQI.
We also left too early and didn't let the New Iraqi Army develop long enough to be left on their own. So they are getting smashed.
Looking back it would have been better to have empowered the Kurds, because they are the only group in Iraq that has any backbone and any semblance of human rights. But it would've been like putting the independents in charge in 'Merica.
It's a clusterf**k and some of it is Obama's doing.
Promised to take all the troops out of Iraq. Did so right before being reelected. Iraq goes to shit without US support. Can't send troops back in because he already promised not too.
Also can't send troops to Syria because of public war weariness and those pesky republicans.
He's pretty much doing the only thing he can do. Hoping to degrade their fighting ability and letting somebody else deal with them.
America will only stop being war weary when an ISIS or Al Qaeda cell does something again to the homeland.
Quote from: Cvalda on Oct 22, 2014, 11:56:31 PM
CrossFit is a cult: Why so many of its defenders are so defensive
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/22/crossfit_is_a_cult_why_so_many_of_its_defenders_are_so_defensive_partner/
Oh Kimmy 
lol I've never done crossfit.
I was f**king about. Not as successfully as you did to me yesterday.
