BREAKING NEWS: ISIS shoot down warplane from US-coalition over Syria and capture its pilot

[Baron von Hax]

Can we stop putting 'Breaking' in titles as they are not always breaking news.

[sasherz]

[QUOTE=Michael haxz;46794112]stuff[/QUOTE]

I'm capable of using Google, I'm questioning the choice in name.

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;46794618]It just sounds like a maxipad for men.[/QUOTE]

[catbarf]

[QUOTE=bravehat;46785806]Only American troops are capable of dying right? Can folk from the US cut it with this shit as if we expect you guys to get dicked instead of everyone else in our stead?[/QUOTE]

[url]http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/07/U-S-Air-Force-dominates-campaign-against-ISIS.html[/url]

When the international coalition that's been constantly calling for joint action seems more than happy to make the US do most of the dirty work, yeah, I'd say it's pretty accurate to describe the international sentiment as expecting the US to get dicked instead of everyone else, just as it was in Iraq and Somalia before.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;46785505]He's Jordanian, I don't think they're going to risk SF units to rescue someone that most of the western media and public couldn't care less about, as sad as it is

This news would be way more explosive in the media if the pilot was American, British, French, etc[/QUOTE]
Well we have been rescuing captives from all nations regardless, the failed rescue atyempts on us hostages did recover like two dozen hostages from all sorts of nationalities, plus his country is part of the coalition, we probably have something in there about this

[joes33431]

[QUOTE=catbarf;46795969][url]http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/07/U-S-Air-Force-dominates-campaign-against-ISIS.html[/url]

When the international coalition that's been constantly calling for joint action seems more than happy to make the US do most of the dirty work, yeah, I'd say it's pretty accurate to describe the international sentiment as expecting the US to get dicked instead of everyone else, just as it was in Iraq and Somalia before.[/QUOTE]

the us led the initiative into iraq, our allies were either just in agreement with our sentiment or dragged into it as members of NATO.

we shattered an established government and then failed to put the pieces back together into something functional.

in the case of iraq, the US dicked itself. you can thank the CIA for that, since they're the ones that gave bush bad info on iraqi WMDs.

the bullshit in somalia was also a result of world leaders failing to act effectively due to an unwillingness to intervene beyond what was absolutely necessary. when UNITAF rolled in, somali warlords were entirely under the expectation that they were going to be disarmed and were willing to follow through. but instead, we told them to move their weapons elsewhere until the operation was finished. so, when UNITAF left and the second peacekeeping mission came back in, the fighting simply restarted, except against the much more fragile and less well-equipped UNOSOM II. not to mention that UN member states have consistently demanded that peacekeeping missions provide an end, and yet they fail or refuse to provide the means; whenever a genocide kicks up, they most definitely want peacekeepers to stop the conflict, but refuse to provide soldiers and equipment.

in large part, we are sleeping in a bed that we ourselves (more specifically our politicians) had a big hand in making.

[GayIlluminati]

/pol/ is going ham