Eco Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/index.html Trump bombs a well known ISIS cave and tunnel system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy Posted April 13, 2017 Moderator Share Posted April 13, 2017 The World Police is back in the game. Get fucked, ISIS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Only America's finest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 CTRL + F Civilians Quote "US forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties with this strike. US Forces will continue offensive operations until ISIS-K is destroyed in Afghanistan," read the statement from US Forces Afghanistan. Uuugh, okay. I hope that is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 As an American, I'm not sure if I like this or not...I hate being the world police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, ATL said: As an American, I'm not sure if I like this or not...I hate being the world police. It's far more complicated than that. If you want to look upon this on the basis of morality; is it okay to allow an organisation like ISIS to entrenched into a nation? is it okay for America to apply their own moral authority on other nations? is it okay of X nation to intervene in Y nation if Y nation is in serious threat of human rights violations? It's a can of worms that contradicts itself over and over again. Is it okay to let fundamentalist Islamists take control? No. Is it okay to drop gigantic bombs? No. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserker Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 9 minutes ago, ATL said: As an American, I'm not sure if I like this or not...I hate being the world police. I wouldn't be sure neither, it's all nice and good bombing the terrorists and all, but the reprisals?, not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 If ISIS were the only casualties then great but I doubt it. The US Forces saying they took all precautions possible really doesn't mean much, don't think many people are naive enough anymore to believe that the American military is as righteous as they claim. This will either escalate things even further which is scary and we'll get the bullshit "they hate us for our freedom" line or it'll slow things down. Let's hope for the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBalon Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Spike said: It's far more complicated than that. If you want to look upon this on the basis of morality; is it okay to allow an organisation like ISIS to entrenched into a nation? is it okay for America to apply their own moral authority on other nations? is it okay of X nation to intervene in Y nation if Y nation is in serious threat of human rights violations? It's a can of worms that contradicts itself over and over again. Is it okay to let fundamentalist Islamists take control? No. Is it okay to drop gigantic bombs? No. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Under the questioning scenarios you've put forward which are good points. Why don't they use 10 of those bombs on Saudi Arabia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 10 minutes ago, SirBalon said: Under the questioning scenarios you've put forward which are good points. Why don't they use 10 of those bombs on Saudi Arabia? You know the answer. It begins with $ and ends with $$. You know if the Afghans or even ISIS could line America's pockets with gold they'd be safe. The constitution is incorruptible not the country it that derives from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Spike said: It's far more complicated than that. If you want to look upon this on the basis of morality; is it okay to allow an organisation like ISIS to entrenched into a nation? is it okay for America to apply their own moral authority on other nations? is it okay of X nation to intervene in Y nation if Y nation is in serious threat of human rights violations? It's a can of worms that contradicts itself over and over again. Is it okay to let fundamentalist Islamists take control? No. Is it okay to drop gigantic bombs? No. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Exactly. It's absolutely a tough call in all ways. The attack on Syria made sense, this hopefully makes sense. Any causalities and I'm out. I just couldn't imagine harming innocents in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, ATL said: Exactly. It's absolutely a tough call in all ways. The attack on Syria made sense, this hopefully makes sense. Any causalities and I'm out. I just couldn't imagine harming innocents in this. The brutality of it all sometimes is a tough pill to swallow. What I mean is; for example if the USA was a foreign super-power before WW2 and used it's power to bomb the fuck out of Germany to prevent the strangle hold of the Nazis, is it justified? It is better to murder 1,000,000 people to save 40,000,000? These are the impossible decisions people like Harry Truman have made, sure we can sit here and say that we wouldn't have nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima but how do we know it was murder to stop more murder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 50 minutes ago, Teso Dos Bichos said: Media hype Trump's bomb theatre. But the Pentagon dropped 26,172 bombs during 2016. More than a MOAB every day. Even if all these bombs averaged 1000lbs that's 71,404lbs a day or almost three MOABs a day. @wikileaks Exactly selling a headline, this is literally not anything news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Elsewhere China is desperately trying to cool things down as a large fleet of US and Japanese warships is heading towards North Korea this morning. Hillary will start world war 3, we must vote for the Donald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBalon Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 It seems there's no doubt we're heading into WWIII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
True Blue Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 1 hour ago, SirBalon said: It seems there's no doubt we're heading into WWIII. It has been going on since the attacks on Iraq, Syria etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 2 hours ago, HoneyNUFC said: Elsewhere China is desperately trying to cool things down as a large fleet of US and Japanese warships is heading towards North Korea this morning. Hillary will start world war 3, we must vote for the Donald I think he's caught them on the hop, where Obama did deals with Iran and placed sanctions on North Korea without actually doing fuck all, Trump is very quickly showing that his threats aren't to be taken lightly. Is this WW3? No. For WW3 you need genuine bit hitters on either side, China won't risk a military campaign against the Yanks over some Korean nut. Will the US go in to North Korea? Not on the ground certainly, I think if they're sure he's aspiring to nuclear capability and he's close they will strategically take that out, of which I have absolutely no issue with. The west's tactic of asking China to bring their dog to heel has done sweet FA and you point blank can't fuck around with tin pot dictators getting WMD's (insert Trump gag here) Will the US go in to Syria? I still think No, I now lean toward the theory Artful dodger posted that as a stand alone event this way Trump putting down a marker to Assad and the world in general. As a stand alone event, the raid on Syria said we won't tolerate this sort of action etc and using this in the classic bully fashion of pick on the weak guy to make your point to all. His personal rhetoric has cooled towards Russia and the silly accusations that he was a Russian plant have gone away now. It was either a very calculated move or he's got lucky by being a idiot. Personally for me i think he may well have been to easily persuaded to act against Syria and i don't think it was the correct thing to do, I guess time will tell, Personally I actually lean towards the false flag attack theory from Assad, I just don't trust the neo-cons in Washington at all. As Assad has said "what did i have to gain from it?" so far the only evidence i've heard was a Turkish autopsy, Turkey a regime desperate to go in put the boot in and remove Assad themselves. Hillary had talked up war with Russia and was committed to yet more regime change, she was a disaster guaranteed, Trump is potentially a disaster and potentially not. Think back though you have ISIS, the Obama administration armed them and dropped leaflets, Trump does this We can call him a nutter all we like, the reality is no one is mugging the Yanks off today in the global climate. They may well manipulate and run rings round in time to varying degrees of success no doubt, but i guarantee every world leader has had meetings with defense strategists to reassess how they treat America after the events of the last few days. It's kinda like parenting, if you don't carry out your threats the kids take the piss, if you do the threat afterwards is enough to establish control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBalon Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Trump has gone all cowboy like after saying in his campaign that his tenure would be a more insular inward looking one with the statement "America First", concentrating on fixing the US' many domestic issues. Now aside from that because Trump being contradictory seems to be a defect in his character... Aside from all that the question is whether he is right in his actions so far and whatever future actions he and his government take where exterior issues are concerned. Was he right to agree to fire 50 odd Tomahawk Missiles on a Syrian airbase after Assad's alleged gas attack on his own people. Was Trump right to drop a "Mother of All Bombs" on an Afaganistan cave network which was supposedly being used by ISIS. Is Donald Trump correct in sending an envoy of warships to the surrounding area of the Korean Peninsula due to North Korea allegedly wanting to test more nuclear weapons. If he's right, then we should stand by this and stop being overly pedantic on his every moves and applaud his sudden will to police the world in an attempt to eradicate "tyrants". If he's wrong and he's just making things worse in a provocative manner, then what are other nations going to do about this guy that can be leading us to the possibly most unstable era in the history of mankind and a potential Third World War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panflute Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 With America behaving the way it does, is there any wonder North Korea is armed to the teeth and has a nuclear program? This story that a hermit kingdom like North Korea is a threat that needs to be taken out is retarded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 He's certainly right on North Korea, China just haven't taken the rest of the world seriously and brought them to heel. You just can't allow these type of countries to obtain nuclear weapons, it's a complete No No. We can speculate on the morality and all that, and with the benefit of hindsight he may well look foolish in certain areas. If we pour over the Cold War I'm sure we can all criticise aspects of behaviour as the global game of brinkmanship ensued. The fact is you have a rogue state under a totalitarian dictator who despite repeated sanctions and threats appears to be continuing with a weapons program that seems designed to become nuclear capable. Whether it's tomorrow or next year is irrelevant we (the global community) need to deal with it. It's like any problem, the longer you sit on it the greater the mess becomes. My personal preference would be tactically targeting there weapons programs as well as destroying the air capabilities of their army. I don't think the Yanks will want boots on the ground at all. Hopefully all the above can be achieved from the air, boots on the ground should be the last resort and may become necessity if we don't act eventually. Which I think we can all agree will be a complete and utter clusterfuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 14 minutes ago, Panflute said: With America behaving the way it does, is there any wonder North Korea is armed to the teeth and has a nuclear program? This story that a hermit kingdom like North Korea is a threat that needs to be taken out is retarded. think we're going to disagree on this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panflute Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 The reason North Korea feels the need to arm itself with nuclear weapons is because the US and its many vassals are trying to devour the entire world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panflute Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 It is always the same tactic. No matter if it's Iraq, Libya, Iran, Lebanon, North Korea or Ukraine, the narrative is always that their regional problems are our problems and we have to strike now. And when we did, the result has always been unmitigated disaster. How about trying to leave countries alone for a while and see how that works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Panflute said: The reason North Korea feels the need to arm itself with nuclear weapons is because the US and its many vassals are trying to devour the entire world. I wouldn't dispute that, but they're a threat with a nuclear weapon. Every country with Nuclear weapons is a threat and in the case of the states I'd say it's better the devil we know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBalon Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Panflute said: How about trying to leave countries alone for a while and see how that works. Total agreement with this. Even in the crazy case that that would mean a "Islamic Caliphate" in the middle east. Let them just get on with it, it's their land and it should be their autonomy until otherwise where it effects our way of living where we live. If those living where we live want that, then they can move there too. We in Britain supposedly departed from the EU so as to become sovereign. If this is the case, then let others be so to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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