[–] Kaizervonmaanen ago
ISIS won't be wiped out even if they nuked the whole place. ISIS is all over and the reasons ISIS exists in the first place is getting worse and worse. Their reason to exist is strengthened for every bomb. It's naive to think it will be over just because some ISIS members are removed, it's just like when George Bush thought he could wipe out all 150 Al Qaida members that existed in 2001. Today they are several hundred thousand fighters in almost 40 countries. AND you also have a group like ISIS on top of that who to a large degree share some values. It's contraproductive and won't help anyone except give a temporary relief to Assad.
[–] PIcasso54 ago
Yep, I agree we aren't going deep enough. I'm pretty sure if we start public executions of ISIS members they will be disheartened to quit... Bonus points for hangings and Firing quads.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
ISIS often show corpses of ISIS members in their propaganda, Tons and tons of them, dying is considered a reward and reminder of martyrdom. It might have the opposite effect. You could just as well just show ISIS propaganda where ISIS members die. No ISIS member think they will survive, according to the prophecy Muhammed told and which they believe in, the whole world will go against a group in Syria who fly the black banner, the group will be fought back until a big battle in the city of Dabiq where the group will suddenly win, and eventually they will win back the land and Jesus will come back at the white mosque in Damasqus and control the whole world according to the laws of God (sharia). That is why they call their main english Magazine "Dabiq", they all believe they are going to die fighting, but that someone will continue the fight until judgement day. They believe that after the current Caliph dies (which they all are waiting for) there will be... I think... 5 more, because a Prophecy say that there will be 12 Caliphs from the tribe Quraish (Which this Baghdadi guy is a decendent from and he is considered like the 6th or something). They believe that these guys will die pretty fast due to the hazardous fighting currently in place. Having ISIS members dying out will just kind of prove their point, and it might be the reason why ISIS is not afraid to antagonize everyone since the prophecy says that the REAL proper muslims will get attacked by the whole world. And one more reason why they believe that THIS is the time for it is because the prophecy includes the statement that the muslims will begin raising the black banners in Khorasan, which is the area called Afghanistan and western Pakistan today. Which has happened recently as well.
This is one of the prophecies in question, russians by the way claimed to be successors to Rome (also called the third rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Rome ) after the fall of the Byzantine empire (the second rome which lasted until the muslims took Turkey), so this nonsense counterproductive bombing would probably just strengthen ISIS, just look at what the old prophecy says: