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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:08 am 
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-obam ... 00336.html

"Know, oh Obama, that we will reach America. Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House and transform America into a Muslim province," the militant says according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)."

Obviously ISIS is team of villains or whatever, but I think it's pretty amusing how little they know about American internal politics. Like, every crazy shit head thing that the loonies on the right believe, you're going to state that as your intended policy? And the lefties won't be able to bitch and moan about foreign policy, or white people, or whatever equally dumb garbage is claimed as the "reason bad guys are bad", because he is directly threatening Obama, whose foreign policy is top fucking notch.

I mean, if your goal is to grant America a clear goal and a villain to punch, in what universe is that a great strategy? All the fiction we consume is exactly that story, we know what to do there starting at about age 5. ISIS exists because they stepped in the middle of a silent seething mini cold war and started taking territory. The only folks who have the will and the need to fight them hard are like the Kurds, and they are doing that (with IMO shamefully little help from us), while all the big powers sit around and point fingers at each other or make statements about who should and shouldn't be doing which thing to which bad people.


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 Post subject: Re: Like a cartoon
PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:29 pm 
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It does show a shockingly terrible misunderstanding of America.

Also, despite being generally considered internet-intelligent, I'm surprised they have not googled to see our defense budget.

It reminds of this bit from the West Wing. The context is really not important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSxwFtBNww



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