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That Swedish teen story reads way more like "ISIS supporter captured" not "captive rescued" -- nm

Posted by TWuG Feb 23 '16, 14:14

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I like the aspect of "Kurdish special forces". They're being trained by our special forces, its nice to see the training paying off -- nm - crash davis Feb 23, 14:20 15
- The Kurds may be teaching our forces a few things. The peshmerga know their shit. -- nm - TWuG Feb 23, 14:24 6
  - for real. and I love the YPJ Kurdish units of all women. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 23, 14:31 5
    - VICE did a report on them. It showed them actually fighting while the VICE reporter freaked the eff out that bullets were coming his way. - crash davis Feb 23, 14:36 4
      - some of the interviews I've read are great - these women are deadly serious about this. They want to inflict not just death but humiliation on these - Mel Profit Feb 23, 14:50 1
        
        My hope is that it translates into a wider degree of freedom for Muslim women in that region. -- nm - TWuG Feb 23, 14:52
      - haha "stupid hipster" -- nm - mud Feb 23, 14:40 1
        
        while VICE covers some important issues, stupid hipster applies to some of their reporters -- nm - crash davis Feb 23, 14:42
- Yeah, the Kurds have been some of the good guys for a while. - Mop Feb 23, 14:22 7
  - no kidding, sunni, shiites, turks, syrians, now russians -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 23, 14:28
  - given what FDR said about all people have a right to self-determination in the Atlantic Charter, I'm in favor of having some frank talks with Turkey - crash davis Feb 23, 14:27 5
    - at this point, Iraq should be divvied up with Iran, saudi and the Kurds getting a big chunk of it -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 23, 14:32 4
      - Yeah, no. There is a very strong strand of Iraqi nationalism that beats out religious affiliation for a lot of its citizens. -- nm - TWuG Feb 23, 14:33 3
        
        really, they were building walls in Bagdad to keep sunni and shiite separate, most fighting is between the two, their government divides and falls bet - zeitgeist Feb 23, 14:40
        
        An independent Kurdistan is inevitable. The rest is less clear. -- nm - Mop Feb 23, 14:40 1
        
        Kurdistan probably should happen, but Turkey will fight that arrangement tooth and nail. - TWuG Feb 23, 14:46
They lured her with fake tickets to a major curling event. -- nm - Max Feb 23, 14:16 1
- hair curling? -- nm - budice Feb 23, 14:16
Though it may be a literal example of Stockholm Syndrome. :-) -- nm - TWuG Feb 23, 14:15
This. I have sympathy for her, sure, but it's just another in a series of teen girls lured into ISIS. -- nm - Mop Feb 23, 14:15

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