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If the article was slamming the memory of a dead man then I wouldn't link to it...but instead it does something very important...It explains why a rational person would embark on an irrational course of action...like covering terrorists in Syria.
Its a shame that Foley was murdered, but he violated the first rule of survival. Use common sense.
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James Foley was one of a new breed of activists calling themselves journalists. He didn’t travel to report on a story, but to promote an agenda. And the agendawas obvious from his Twitter feed.Read the entire article.
Any human life lost is tragic, but a moral individual would have much more empathy for the Syrian Christians who suffered at the hands of Foley’s favorite Jihadists than one of their pet propagandists.
Foley came to Syria to support the Sunni Islamist rebels against the Syrian government.
He cheered on the Sunni Muslim terrorists fighting to ethnically cleanse the Christians of Aleppo. In the conflict between Israel and Hamas, his tweets and retweets were chock full of pro-terrorist propaganda.
But Foley ran afoul of at least some of the Sunni Jihadists in Syria. His twitter feed was filled with references to the FSA. And the FSA was going to be eclipsed by the Al Qaeda affiliates. And that was where he ended up.
When Austin Tice, an actual freelance journalist was kidnapped by Jihadists, Foley ridiculed the idea that Jihadists had kidnapped him. Surely Syrian Jihadists wouldn’t do that sort of thing.
If the article was slamming the memory of a dead man then I wouldn't link to it...but instead it does something very important...It explains why a rational person would embark on an irrational course of action...like covering terrorists in Syria.
Its a shame that Foley was murdered, but he violated the first rule of survival. Use common sense.
Fuck, that really surprised me.
ReplyDeleteI mean, every time I see a westerner supporting terrorists groups i get a little shocked, because, i just can't believe someone would do something stupid like that.
We have some old saying... I will try to translate it, "Wolf done his job couple of times, they finally did this to the wolf" Ahhh the translation is not good if you can use native words. Let's say that he was happy and supportive for the terrorist and at the end they did to him the same thing he support they done to the others.
ReplyDeleteI would call this some type of poetic justice.
And btw: this was not a model example of collaboration?
DeleteDamn, I feel a little sick now actually.
ReplyDeleteWhat an idiot. Venturing into a territory where pretty much a standing army is waging war vs three states (four, if you count Lebanon) simultaneously, knowing full well that any Westerner not fighting would suffer this fate... sorry, but he was asking for it.
ReplyDeleteNow, despite him being an idiot and venturing into obviously perilious ground, for dubious reason... ISIS played a pretty good card, imo. I wonder how Obama will react with having american blood "in his hands", and how the media and the general populace would react to the next beheading.
He doesn't seem like a rational person to me, he seems like a deluded tool. Full of ideals, yet ignorant of the realities of the world. Easily manipulated and cast aside once he ceased to be useful.
ReplyDeleteI have a certain fondness for Putin and his leadership abilities. But I'm not so stupid as to think that Putin wouldn't have me killed in a second if it served his goals to do so. Or which side I'd be on (not his) if the east and west go to war.
About this...
ReplyDeleteHey Sol, doesn't this kinda fits as "boots on the ground"?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11047440/US-military-failed-in-secret-Syria-rescue-mission-this-summer.html
i question everything about SOCOM...i even take news like this with a grain of salt. they're big time into public perception and if they felt that it suited there needs would fabricate a story like this in a heartbeat...like trying to signal to ISIS that they went after a hostage before and will again...
Deletei said all that to say that the story could be a psyops campaign to try anything to save this guys life. notice how the terrorist filmed the beheading in a open setting where at least i had trouble recognizing what piece of land they did it in? they're smart and getting better at eluding detection.
but back to your question. i don't count SOCOM as ever "being on the ground"...not in a combat format anyway. on the ground in training missions yeah, they stick around but for everything else they zoom around like its cool.