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I just assume "ISS" is the new Al Qaeda" or "terrorism", i.e. branding and refinement of propaganda programs, providing a go-to enemy to justify military operations.

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If you spend a few moments on LiveLeak looking for IS videos, I suspect you'll come to agree that "IS" (or "ISIS") is a thing distinct from "terrorism". As not an apparent, imminent threat to the US, I'm not sure whether they deserve more or less attention [from our population's eyeballs and thereby our military's bombs] than does "terrorism", but it's hard to agree with the cynical interpretation that "IS" is merely a rebranding of the terrorism bogeyman.

...and I would advise you against spending those few moments on LiveLeak looking for IS videos...

The Vice documentary of ISIS is very informative without having to view said LiveLeak videos.

On the other hand you just proposed that the parent commenter gets on a terrorist list of the NSA, GCHQ, BKA, etc.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

The Frontline is pretty interesting. The US military left hardware including vehicles and weapons undefended which ISIS simply took. Then some time passed and ISIS decided to attack an oil town in the north that the military actually cared about. A fighter jet was deployed - the pilot hit a button that deployed smart guided missiles - and that was the end of that idea. Not a threat to the US. But some soldiers raping people and chopping peoples heads off.

Tell that to the 7000 yezidi women that got kidnapped by privileged muslims from the west who travelled for an adventure. Tell them they are just part of a propaganda.

Tell them that muslims really do not consider them heretic.

The whole 800 000 000 of muslims who justify honour killings, killing apostates and etc.

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/140820142

12 year sold as ISIS slave, she didn't know what rape meant only that she woke up bleeding http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/yazidi-women-sold-...

One ‘slave' tried to kill herself 7 times. Some of the girls isis rapes & enslaves are 8. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/isis-women-angelina...

Yazidi girls, aged 12 & 19, bought & sold, raped & beaten for months by their ISIS captors http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news/yazidi-woman-isis-capt...

ISIS militants prefer the young female "slaves," according to those who made it out. http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/escape-from-hell-...

Kidnapped Yazidi women are frequently victimized with non-consensual, brutalizing rape: http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=589

Tell it to the Kurdish Peshmerga or YPG forces who've lost thousands of their brother and sisters live defending their cities from Privileged muslims from welfare state with free education and healthcare.

Ugh, I can't stand these fucking privileged jihadi-apologists. You, Greenwald, Jones, Galloway, Augur, Werlemann and all other assholes who created this pity-fest for Jihadis.

We've ensured that the entire region is a war zone for the last 30 years. These things happen in war zones. The U.S. Military business and the Muslim extremists need each other, and owe each other much of their strength. By playing along with their game of racism and war, you strengthen them. Weakminded citizens such as yourself and your Muslim counterparts are easily manipulated by manufactured hatred to enrich the sociopaths.

Horse-shit, Kurdistan was not a war-zone. The US never engaged with Kurdistan. They were foreign invaders from welfare state. 25 000 muslims from nations that offered free healthcare and some free education.

You're just another white liberal left-wing apologist. You belong in CAGE with the rest of the Jihadi propaganda wings.

You're also ignoring the fact that the Muslims have waged Jihad against infidel BEFORE THE USA EVEN EXISTED.

The rape against minorities as Hindus, Yezidis and Christians existed even America was an idea.

You're an ignorant one, aren't you?

Ps, I am a shia muslim kurd. We're also considered "infidels" by majority of muslims, tougher with Ammadhya Muslims who Pakistan ISI slaughters on a daily basis

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