Pawnmaster wrote:Are you dumb?
1500 militants my butt... there's more than that... guess what....
We may have bad things going on in the U.S. but we don't rape our kids and stab women for being christian, or muslim...
You want to say that ISIS is better than some of the shit going on in the U.S.
You wanna know why they cover ISIS so goddang much?
They are the first Islamic Extremist group we have in our era that takes and holds land...
Think about it. Most guns you have to buy... when you have tax money you can build them...
Terrorists without the need for external support, THAT is bad...
I have gotten my information of 1,500 militants from one source, but I looked into it more, and found out there most sources estimate 10k-30k. Going off of CIA observations.
https://southfront.org/the-isis-militan ... -are-they/http://warontherocks.com/2015/02/how-ma ... ally-have/Now for land owned by ISIS
http://syriancivilwarmap.com/Even though it says ISIS, there is also DAESH. That means other terrorist groups. The Syrian Civil War is Syria versus hundreds of different terrorist groups, so this isn't just what ISIS has taken, it what other terrorist groups have as well.
Currently ISIS has taken provinces in Syria and Iraq, Syria taking the worst of it. If ISIS is such a disturbance to the US, lets look at funds. ISIS takes in a estimated 80mil per month. That is close to 1 bil a year, so we will round it there. Now lets pull up howmuch other countries spend on their military each year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... world.htmlOur military is 500x better than funded than theirs yearly. Lets look at Syria with 3.3 billion defense budget, Iraq at 6 billion. Most of the land ISIS has taken is still being disputed over. If you even look at it, ISIS is completely surrounded by countries against them. Even though I do agree ISIS has definitely spread since June 8th 2015, they have taken very large hits from their peak in December 21, owning half of Syria and Iraq. ISIS is almost completely kicked out of Iraq. If you look at it, the US could come in just utterly bomb the place to hell if needed, easily as well. But it is best left for other countries to take care of.
In response, Al Queda has held land before ISIS, this isn't the first time.
Lets worry about something that has inspired/carried out 1,200 murders outside of Iran/Iraq, but not Chicago, which has twice as many murders per year.
Rape and murder is what happens when any opposing force conquers another's land. Honestly, I am not appalled, from Romans to ISIS, it is just a way of war that can never be ceased.
