• Gozzin
    +4

    “The continued presence of these criminals in this city is a curse and bad omen on [Palmyra] and every column and every archaeological piece in it.”

    Te entire world needs to go in there and wipe them out in one fell swoop. If only it were that easy.

    • massani
      +4

      I remember a little while back them threatening to destroy Borobudur in Indonesia. Every Middle Eastern, North African, and Asian nation that has a mostly Muslim population should be on guard from ISIS trying to destroy any of their non-Islamic culture sites.

    • ColonBowel
      +4

      I'm seriously intrigued as to why we haven't just fucked them up badly already. I mean, this people seriously need to be stopped.

      • alot (edited 8 years ago)
        +2

        I think trying to wipe them out will only have us enter a long, costly war with them, which will end not because it is won, but because of war-weariness. They'll just have an even easier time to recruit new members, with us being seen as aggressors. I think the tough but correct way of dealing with them is to work towards reducing social class differences and poverty. ISIS, like many extremist movements, largely plays on emotions as they recruit members. Emotions like anger, despair, frustration, neglect.