He was deported to Baghdad, where the video of him was shot, and Arabic is the majority language in Iraq. Some Chaldeans speak various dialects of modern Aramaic. 

This man was, by every metric but legality, equally American to me. I probably still speak more Arabic than he does, and I’d describe my current Arabic level as “mostly forgotten”. Deporting him to Iraq was an intentional act of cruelty. It led directly to his death.

Can someone please ban this suck fuck? I’m tired of this. I like this site a lot. I give you clicks. I’ve got my ad-blocker off.

Tyson is the Big Bang Theory of scientists. It’s “science” for people who know nothing about science. 

I think we can make an effort to separate the intelligence aspects from the police state aspects, for both Islamists and white terrorists. Doing so would probably be more effective in the long run, as heavy policy tends to reinforce the persecution complex common in radicalization and jails tend to be hotbeds of…

Uh, when confronting Islamist extremism it’s non-extremist Muslims who work with law enforcement. It’s not people into the ideology of Bin Laden but iffy about the violence part. Those people are generally the ones sending material support, which is a crime under US law, and regularly prosecuted for that support.

Ugh, it just had to happen against my team too, and right after he scored when the play should’ve been called dead for a foul. Really a wild emotional ride to go from cursing Philly to appreciating taking a stand that’s pretty likely to get him in trouble with the soulless corporate types at MLS.

It’s painfully obvious any Call of Duty reference was about online troll culture. I haven’t read the manifesto, by the reporting I saw it was fairly predictable if you watch the far-right so there’s not much utility to it, so I can’t say exactly what the reference was or if it was a far-right meme or just an internet…

Probably a few hours away from retweeting the latest conspiracy on the far-right about how the shooters were a false flag by antifa. 

“Look at the imaginary terrorists I made up, don’t look at the real ones that share some ideological similarities with me!” is a hell of a CVE policy.

Very true. Though at the same time there’s a lot more discussion of Kurdish rights in Turkey than Afrin, despite the Turkish government having largely pulled back their most violent methods in recent years. I mean there were literally pictures of Turkish soldiers and allies looting homes in Afrin. I’m still confused…

It only would’ve been before 2013. By then the axis was shifting. JaN gained a lot of power quickly, no doubt in part from Gulf money, and was able to displace the better FSA structures in a lot of places. Now the FSA is a mixture of tattered remnants fought over by various factions looking for legitimacy, almost none…

I’ve long said there was a window before groups like Jabhat al-Nusra were able to boss around most of the non-Islamist opposition when the US should’ve taken action. That’s a take that gets a lot of heat in places like this, but I still firmly believe it from watching it in real time and retrospection. At that point,…

Your man here is an incredibly bad-faith troll. This is a good lesson, on an article about Gabbard and her awful politics, about how the conspiratorial fringe of the left behaves and how unsubstantive their ideological positions remain. 

Yeah, they’ve sent a lot of sons to die in a war they weren’t that interested in. Once Sunni extremists took a bigger role they felt forced into it, but in the early days there were a lot of Alawi willing to stand up against the regime. Alawi get some advantages now, but they mostly accrue to those closest to the…

Yeah, Gods forbid someone get angry over the mass-murder of human beings. You’re doing so much work proving you’re the troll here. I suppose I should thank you. 

Rather than defend an awful take, my posts are getting dismissed. Again, helping my point about the credibility you lack.

Yes, I suppose actual knowledge on Syria might be threatening to whatever the hell you just posted. Thank you for so clearly abdicating. Your lack of credibility is really something I wanted to stress here and I feel like that’s been done. 

So you are an apologist as well. Not shocking.

That’s a piss-poor excuse. If you don’t want to defend awful comments like that don’t write them. This sort of preemptive tone-policing really underscores the lack of substance behind your position.