Raqqa is unofficial capital of unofficial country of 12 to 15 millions of people with 25,000 foreigner fighters, and 100, 000 troops of local population. Even nuking Raqqa will not put the end of this state, because it lives in the heads of the Islamist fighters. One Raqqa is destroyed, they will overwhelm another area sympathetic to their ideas. And this can be anywhere from Mali to Iraq and from Libya to Yemen.
Posts by kaik
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23Should Obama and coalition troops push ISSI'S out of Iraq??
by Witness 007 inwe are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
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Are single sisters happier?
by Esmeralda001 inthis question is for the ladies out there, but if you are a man and you'd like to share your thoughts on the following topic you are welcomed to do so.
given the wt society's view on women, did any of you ladies gave up on the idea of getting married "in the truth".
in such case, did you sometimes feel that you were missing out?
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kaik
In my KH we had JW woman who was single, never married, and available after Armageddon. She was very nice woman, and good friend with my mom. Both of them will sit next to each other and travel together. We even were together in 1991 assembly in Strahov in Prague. She always dressed with bright colors, unlike other elderly, single women who my mom called a gray mice. She had pink nails, red hat, beret, yellow to orange skits. Eventually she had a personal crisis after Strahov assembly, which even my mom does not know why. What I know, she did not have family either. One day she decided to jump in front of train, which run through my city. This train is more or less single car lorry, something like tram. She did not die as the impact catapulted her out, but she was disfigured and lost a limb. I went to visit her, she was looking out of window from wheel chair and refused to talk to anyone. She just stared away. Couple months later, she destroyed everything she owned, cut all pieces of her clothing, upholstery on her furniture, smashed all her china, and set the place on fire, while took sedatives, and died. I often wonder why she went the way she did. She did not deserved to commit suicide at age 60 or so. We could not even bury her, and she was cremated on the city expenses and scattered as she did not have anyone to claim the body.
When it comes to marriage, St. Augustine said that marriage is for these, how are afraid to sleep alone in the darkness of the night. Some people are happy to be single, and some people wants to be married. Many have unhappy marriage, and some people have great marriage. There is no rule what makes things better.
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Legalized marijuana. It's coming to canada and I want to try it.
by hoser inas a good jw i never smoked a joint or nibbled on some brownies.
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kaik
In the Czech Republic, you are allowed to grow own plant with maximum five per personal use. Selling plant with THC is criminal and you will face a huge penalties + jail time. The government figured out that it is not worth to prosecute individual users and old ladies who grow it on its balconies. The biggest problem there are wholesalers who distribute it Germany and Poland. Nonetheless medical pot is allowed, and technical plant without THC is grown all over the country. It has widespread industrial use, you can buy pot pesto, butter, beer, vodka, and even ice cream in downtown of Prague just outside of St. Jill church. Austria has also grows extensively technical plant without THC and you can even stop at some of these farms in Lower Austria. You can even get lost in pot maze
http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/weekly-czech-news/czech-cannabis-labyrinth/The state police control the plants for industrial use to ensure that THC limit is not reached, and there been issues with industrial growers and the law enforcement for years. Alcohol causes much more damage to the society, so are prescription drugs, and crack. This is real issue which should LE and government to address.
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Should Obama and coalition troops push ISSI'S out of Iraq??
by Witness 007 inwe are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
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kaik
One issue people underestimate is the Islamic will to fight. USA thinks that it has technological superiority and people there wants to live like Americans. However, even in the Western states, the support for Sharia laws and ISIS like statehood is somewhere between 25% and 40% percent among Muslims. In the ME, the support is even higher. You can look how long 50 years of warfare looks in ME at one country: Israel!. With all its might, technological superiority, economic position, desire for survival, and intelligence, Israel has not been able to break a will of Palestinians to fight. Look on year after year of uprisings and constant warfare, and you can expect the same form Russian/American/Western Europe coalition. Nothing more than years after years, decade after decade of constant warfare. -
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Should Obama and coalition troops push ISSI'S out of Iraq??
by Witness 007 inwe are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
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kaik
VI, day or two I read, that in order for Russia to conquer ISIS, it will need to put 350,000 ground troops in Syria. This is a huge number, which Russia cannot afford. Asad controls only 1/5 of the country and he will never recover his state. ISIS control 12 million people and if the population would not stand behind this regime, it will not be that successful. It is illusion to think that Sunni Iraq and Syria will "liberate" their territory from ISIS with the help of foreigner. It will not work. Population there is dreaming of ancient Caliphate that will return and restore glory of long lost past. Even if Russian/West coalition conquers Raqqa, the capital of ISIS, the ideology will not disappear. ISIS is not the only war of the Islamist ideology, there is Yemen, Mali, Nigeria, Libya, and West/Russia does not have money, will, resources, and leadership to control them. The best the world can do is containment.
What you propose is grand coalition, which would backfire in Russia (the largest Muslim population in Europe, Moscow itself has 2 million Muslims), and Western Europe which face a possibility of internal war with Islamic refugees. Americans thinks that they have superiority and putting a huge hope for Trump to be elected and sent tens of thousands Americans to fight in ME and defeat ISIS, but again, there is nothing to really conquer. How you will deal with Islamic ideology that has a huge support among 1.2 billion Muslims from Africa to ME to Asia? Capture of ISIS territory will not address it.
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Should Obama and coalition troops push ISSI'S out of Iraq??
by Witness 007 inwe are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
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kaik
No ground troops. That is what ISIS wants.
Exactly. This strategy did not work for Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, and did not work for Soviets in Afghanistan. ISIS can entice men from Muslim countries all the time because it is war of ideology, not for specific national goal.
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Should Obama and coalition troops push ISSI'S out of Iraq??
by Witness 007 inwe are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
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kaik
People do not realize that war with ISIS is not a war against specific state entity or country, but against ideology. There is no way to defeat it, only decimate its ranks. There is nothing to gain with occupying Syria. These Islamist fighters will disburse to other Islamic countries from Libya to Nigeria to Afghanistan to Central Asia to Yemen and you have another war all over. People put too much high expectation on Russia and Putin that he will defeat ISIS, but after two months of bombing campaign, ISIS is still holding. USA and Western powers are in war with ISIS for longer. The only way to stop ISIS from spreading out it is to contain it, redraw borders, and gives Kurds a place where they can stop it from digging it in the mountains.
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Very Sad ... Another Terrorist Attack here in the USA ... and not enough guns to defend us
by RubaDub inif only there were more people with guns perhaps some lives would have been saved.. it's a sad state of affairs here in the us when enough people aren't armed when there is an attack.. if someone simply had a gun or was wearing a suicide vest to take the perpetrators out, other lives could have been saved.. rub a dub .
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kaik
freemindfade, you are correct on this. Unfortunately, Western Europeans are looking into USA through left-wing liberal opinion where they think that banning guns will suddenly make crime goes away and it will decrease violence. At the same time they will fail to see own problems like Breivik in Norway, Paris, etc. Even if the guns are banned, there are millions of guns in the country which will take decades to remove from the society. -
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Noah's Ark
by Darkknight757 inso i'm reading the book "the atheist book of bible stories" and something just occurred to me.. noahs ark rested on the top of mount ararat.
how the hell did all the land animals, dinosaurs and other monsters get to ground level?
did noah and his family just push them off the mountain and hope for the best?
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kaik
Over the 100 years, numerous scientific researches were done on Mt. Ararat without yielding any result of Noah ark. Russians, Germans, Americans, and did various digs and remote sensing techniques on this tiny glacier and there was not evidence of something huge. It is not hard mountain to climb, I know elderly man who did it at his retirement. It is accessible, and not something that cannot be accessed.
Flood story of OT is nothing more than a myth and a moral story for the age it was written.
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Hypothetical question. There is no more guns on our streets, would the crime rate go down?
by James Mixon init would eliminate drive by's (gangs).
bank robbery.
( handing the bank teller a note, this is stick up without a gun).
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kaik
I am not sure if this can be applicable for all countries as there is a difference between USA, Canada, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, when it comes to crime, gun control, and violence. In Czech Republic, crime spiked after the fall of communism which caused many people to obtain gun legally. Having registered, licensed gun and permit is very easy in that country. The laws got more liberal in past ten years, and crime is much lower than was in 1990-1995. While crimes edged up during the Great Recession and lay offs of police force, it did not changed the overall relationship between gun ownership and violence. Czech Republic had mass shooting in the past, and there were mass murderers during communist era when gun control was very high. So, to me the gun ownership is more or less culturally evolved topic like in USA where there is a huge attachment to the guns.