The Global War on Terror 5.0: Putin on the Risk

[St. Clown]

Re: The Global War on Terror 5.0: Putin on the Risk

Considering Fearless Leader should've had his pick of available ladies, I think she's rather homely.

The woman is his sister, not his wife or girlfriend (most would hope). Given how homely his father and grandfather were, there's only so much that a woman's hotness can overcome in the breeding process.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Am I wrong to think she has a little bit of anime hotness?

Considering Fearless Leader should've had his pick of available ladies, I think she's rather homely.

[Bob Gray]

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So, here's what I've heard since yesterday.

Asaad escalated his bombings against his enemies.
ISIS is almost assured taking over Kobani.
Turkey won't join unless the US takes out Asaad.
Jimmy Carter has called Obama a *****.
We have not gone all out with the airstrikes and even Carter wants boots on the ground.

IIRC Syria is a Russian/Iran ally?

Armageddon here we come. And if not the Trillions we can pump into there nation building that turd of a country is unmeasurable.

Wheeeeeee.

Something like that. Kinda makes one not want to know what's in store for today!

Turkey really comes off this looking awful. Apparently they not only won't lift a finger militarily, but they are blocking the Kurds in Iraq from sending in supplies through Turkey to Kobane. Given that Turkey controls the only entrance to Kobane not in ISIS hands, Turkey is sealing the fate of Kobane and should shoulder a large amount of blame for those who will lose their lives in Kobane once ISIS completes its conquest.

I'm not an Obama fan, obviously, but at this point I'm not sure what a good stance going forward is. It's really tough to sit on the sidelines while humanitarian disasters unfold before your eyes. But it's also hard to stop them from happening. I wonder if we could at least air drop in military supplies to the defenders or something like that?

[Kepler]

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Kim Jong Il?

Apparently so!

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

Am I wrong to think Kim Yo Jong has a little bit of anime hotness?

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: The Global War on Terror 5.0: Putin on the Risk

So, here's what I've heard since yesterday.

Asaad escalated his bombings against his enemies.
ISIS is almost assured taking over Kobani.
Turkey won't join unless the US takes out Asaad.
Jimmy Carter has called Obama a *****.
We have not gone all out with the airstrikes and even Carter wants boots on the ground.

IIRC Syria is a Russian/Iran ally?

Armageddon here we come. And if not the Trillions we can pump into there nation building that turd of a country is unmeasurable.

Wheeeeeee.

[dxmnkd316]

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Mother of God

[burd]

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I knew it. You're one of them pinko commie tree huggers.

Hugging male trees, no less.

[dxmnkd316]

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I like to think of it as I make the guns, Kepler makes the bullets. Shoot 'em up, baby!

(in particular, I work on technologies to improve the energy efficiency of aircraft, so that's the tie-in to my interest in energy topics)

I knew it. You're one of them pinko commie tree huggers.

[LynahFan]

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This is correct. Lynah makes things that fly, fly. I make his things that fly make other things go boom.

Together we are basically the entire US economy except for lawn chairs and Cheetos. So be nice.

I like to think of it as I make the guns, Kepler makes the bullets. Shoot 'em up, baby!

(in particular, I work on technologies to improve the energy efficiency of aircraft, so that's the tie-in to my interest in energy topics)

[dxmnkd316]

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Kim Jong Il?

Apparently so!

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

[Kepler]

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I'm not saying it's necessarily a current need, just that I suspect that it was a perceived benefit at the time Turkey was admitted.

As a way to grind Ivan's gears, yeah, I can see that.

[Craig P.]

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I'm not sure we really need to project seapower into the Black Sea anymore. The Sixth Fleet can pretty much hit anything in the Caucasus from anchor off Naples, and the food is better.

I'm not saying it's necessarily a current need, just that I suspect that it was a perceived benefit at the time Turkey was admitted.

[Kepler]

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The Bosporus and Dardanelles might have something to do with it too.

I'm not sure we really need to project seapower into the Black Sea anymore. The Sixth Fleet can pretty much hit anything in the Caucasus from anchor off Naples, and the food is better.

[Craig P.]

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Turkey is in NATO because:

1) The US wants every forward deployment base we can get surrounding those delicious Middle Eastern oil reserves

2) As a symbolic gesture that Turkey is "part of Europe"

3) Because Turkey used to be a secular counter-example to the religious states of the Muslim world

The Bosporus and Dardanelles might have something to do with it too.

[Kepler]

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Lynah might be defense also (I thought energy sector out in Cali.), but I know Kepler has flat out stated that he does, joking about it a couple times while rooting for more missiles (or something) to be used in the Middle East.

This is correct. Lynah makes things that fly, fly. I make his things that fly make other things go boom.

Together we are basically the entire US economy except for lawn chairs and Cheetos. So be nice.