Why isn't anyone talking about Algeria?

[i'va biggen]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

And this is what I said! ... Post 22.

Yes it is ..

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by i'va biggen

Were they involved in the rescue? no

There you go again ... no one ever said the French were involved in the rescue!

I guess you wish someone had said that so you could look smart.

[i'va biggen]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

There you go again ... no one ever said the French were involved in the rescue!

I guess you wish someone had said that so you could look smart.

then STFU and let's move on.

[LordBeaverbrook]

JB, JD, LL doesn't matter what he does or doesn't do, you and most of the other Repubs will be against it even it it was your idea in the fist place. It just doesn't get any stupider than that.

Didja ever ask yourself how Al Queda gets from the tribal areas in Pakistan to 700 miles into the interior desert of Algeria (not to mention Benghazi Libya and dozens of other places since they were run out of Afghanistan) when they don't have planes or ships and most members are wanted pretty much across the world and being hunted by our Special Forces? Probably not considering the source.

Al Queda has morphed since 2001 and before from a distinct organization to a movement with many loose affiliates. Much like Communism or Republicanism it doesn't require Stalin to go to Vietnam and recruit Hi Chi Minh or Lincoln to go to California to recruit Nixon. AQIM (Al Queda in the Islamic Mahgreb) is an Al Queda affiliate that has Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the terrorist who planned this attempted kidnapping, as one of its leaders. He made it to Afghanistan too late to fight Russians so he fought the government in Kabul before coming back to Algeria and starting or joining AQIM around 2007.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...st-leader.html

Turns out Mokhtar Belmokhtar miscalculated and the Algerian officials don't negotiate and their defense forces don't mess around or care much about civilian casualties. Thus it looks like no one in their right mind including AQIM will try anything like this again in Algeria.

[Yssup Rider]

Yeah, but that doesn't stop these assholes from talking treason.

[LordBeaverbrook]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Yeah, but that doesn't stop these assholes from talking treason.

Yeah, don't know what I was thinkin'. Like talking to chimps... all they ever do is fling poop.

[JD Barleycorn]

Nice try Aus but you can't compare republicans who have a Constitution to guide them but you can compare the cult of personality in the democratic party to Stalin, Mussolini, or Hitler.

It is a sweeping fallacy to say that conservatives will not support ANYTHING Obama does. If Obama cut the entitlement programs and really reduced the federal debt then conservatives would cheer that he finally got it.

[CuteOldGuy]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Yeah, but that doesn't stop these assholes from talking treason.

Who is talking treason? Or are you just pissing and whining again? We expect that, because you are the reigning . . .

DIPSHIT OF THE YEAR 2013

ASSUP!!!

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by austxjr

Yeah, don't know what I was thinkin'. Like talking to chimps... all they ever do is fling poop.

Assup is the undisputed king of all poop flingers.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Who is talking treason? Or are you just pissing and whining again? We expect that, because you are the reigning . . .

DIPSHIT OF THE YEAR 2013

ASSUP!!!

You got nothing. all you do is attack the president and his policies. you shit on America and everybody trying to make it better. If I were in your shoes, I'd be LEaVING before we sic Marcellus Wallace on your stupid narrow ass!

[gnadfly]

Originally Posted by austxjr

JB, JD, LL doesn't matter what he does or doesn't do, you and most of the other Repubs will be against it even it it was your idea in the fist place. It just doesn't get any stupider than that.

Wow. Assign the rational subject a "doesn't matter you are against it" and then call them stupid for being against it. Doesn't get more stupid than that.

Originally Posted by austxjr

Didja ever ask yourself how Al Queda gets from the tribal areas in Pakistan to 700 miles into the interior desert of Algeria (not to mention Benghazi Libya and dozens of other places since they were run out of Afghanistan) when they don't have planes or ships and most members are wanted pretty much across the world and being hunted by our Special Forces? Probably not considering the source.

Al Queda has morphed since 2001 and before from a distinct organization to a movement with many loose affiliates.(I separated this sentence) AQIM (Al Queda in the Islamic Mahgreb) is an Al Queda affiliate that has Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the terrorist who planned this attempted kidnapping, as one of its leaders. He made it to Afghanistan too late to fight Russians so he fought the government in Kabul before coming back to Algeria and starting or joining AQIM around 2007.

So actually its morphed since say the mid 1990, when there were AQ attacks in Kenya, Tanzania, Philippines, Jakarta, Yemen, a number of places in Africa and Asia. Because, like the Muslim religion that they represent, there is more loose coordination - like a bad franchising scheme. Additionally, it could be said that there's been ongoing conflict between Muslims and any number of religions, cultures and nations...even within Muslim sects themselves for a millennium. Why single out 2001?

Originally Posted by austxjr

Much like Communism or Republicanism it doesn't require Stalin to go to Vietnam and recruit Hi Chi Minh or Lincoln to go to California to recruit Nixon.

This quote just proves its just an anti-Republican narrative you are trying to assert. I don't believe you know this but some of the people you lead your post off with AREN'T Republicans.

Originally Posted by austxjr

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...st-leader.html

Turns out Mokhtar Belmokhtar miscalculated and the Algerian officials don't negotiate and their defense forces don't mess around or care much about civilian casualties. Thus it looks like no one in their right mind including AQIM will try anything like this again in Algeria.

So you agree it wasn't a rescue mission? Do you know why its OK to kill foreign non-Muslims to an AQ terrorist? You know why its OK to kill foreign non-Muslim to a Muslim Algerian?

These terrorists aren't in their right mind. They proven it time and time again. And they don't mind dying.

It doesn't get more stupid than that.

[CuteOldGuy]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

You got nothing. all you do is attack the president and his policies. you shit on America and everybody trying to make it better. If I were in your shoes, I'd be LEaVING before we sic Marcellus Wallace on your stupid narrow ass!

Why can't you just answer a question? Who was talking treason? Gawd, you're a whiny idiot. No wonder you are the . . .

DIPSHIT OF THE YEAR 2013

ASSUP!!!

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Why can't you just answer a question? Who was talking treason? Gawd, you're a whiny idiot. No wonder you are the . . .

DIPSHIT OF THE YEAR 2013

ASSUP!!!

And don't forget, Assup is the king of all poop flingers. He taught CJ7 and WTF everything they know.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by austxjr

JB, JD, LL doesn't matter what he does or doesn't do, you and most of the other Repubs will be against it even it it was your idea in the fist place.

When he starts doing what is best for the whole country and not Obaminable and the 15 million people he claims he is helping, then more of those on the correct side of the equation would praise him. If he ever figures out that he's pissing off other peoples' money, not his, then things might start looking up.

Now that he has bought a second term with empty promises he will not deliver, perhaps he will start a course correction and begin considering the other 300 million in this country who keep OUR government tit full of milk.

[essence]

Originally Posted by austxjr

JB, JD, LL doesn't matter what he does or doesn't do,

from your link, Mr Fowler who was a hostage in a previous incident in 2008:

Mr Fowler tells how, upon his eventual release, the terrorists organised a "departure ceremony" to see off their two Western captives – summoning 102 fighters into the desert for a show of strength.

"But all I could think was that I was sitting smack in the middle of one hell of a target," he said. "And if the Algerian defence forces could have found it, they wouldn't have thought twice about the white guys sitting in the middle. Absolutely no question."

Now, it may be the best thing to kill 102 terrorists and sacrifice 2 hostages, who is to say? War is dirty. Certainly it would make sense if the hostages are in imminent danger. Difficult decision.