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muriel_volestrangler

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8. I'll add: they'll get executed, probably painfully, if captured

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 12, 2015, 03:09 PM

Jun 2015

It's all very well for us in the West to talk about 'cowardly' troops running away, but their likely treatment at the hands of Islamic State, if they are captured, is roughly like the fate of fighting Jews in Nazi hands.

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The real reason "cowardly" Iraqi troops cave before ISIS . . . [View all] Damansarajaya Jun 2015 OP

Three other reasons... Scootaloo Jun 2015 #1

So why hasn't ISIL taken Tehran? Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #3

Iranians would defend their country from non-Iranian invaders. dawg Jun 2015 #7

Exactly my point in the OP! Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #9

I'll add: they'll get executed, probably painfully, if captured muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #8

Gotta bust up that place. dawg Jun 2015 #2

Is that the role of the US? To determine the borders of soverign Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #4

They are choosing to do that by popular decree right now. dawg Jun 2015 #5

Sounds about right . . . nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #11

I have never heard a key public official basically denounce the ground soldiers that we are TwilightGardener Jun 2015 #6

Excellent analysis. nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #10

When this latest mess started it was suggested that the country be broken up into three sections. jwirr Jun 2015 #12

Imagine how destabilizing that would be, if they were given the time and space to be successful at TwilightGardener Jun 2015 #13

You may be right but then we are in an eternal war. And I have some doubt that the ME can get jwirr Jun 2015 #14

Watch the kingdoms start going up in flames. Or a multi-sided nuclear arms race. TwilightGardener Jun 2015 #15

I agree on the nuclear issue. At this time there are very few countries that are not already up in jwirr Jun 2015 #16