You definitely should watch it all. Martin Smith knows what he's doing. But if you're reading this you're probably just glancing through this trying to find some way to own your online political opponents so I'll break it down for you:
Notice that it was actually Assad who created al-Qaeda in Iraq/ISIS/whatever. For some reason nobody has mentioned this for like 20 fricking years but I remember. Contrarian zoomers love to say that Assad/Ghaddafi/etc. were actually good guys because they were our bulwark against Islamists. No they weren't, dipshits. They invented all this stuff.
Jolani = Golani: This explains a lot. People tend to get "radicalized" when they're run off their land. Fortunately Israel is now creating a buffer zone to protect their buffer zone in the Golan. If that doesn't work, they can just go forward and make a buffer zone for their buffer zone for their buffer zone and never face any consequences.
He swears he was the high-level AQI leader who was against the strategy of sending suicide bombers to kill as many civilians as possible. He just went along with it. I would be sympathetic if it was a 15-year old boy getting peer-pressured into smoking a cigarette once. I'm not when this guy has the blood (and shredded guts) of a thousand children on his hands.
He swears that his suicide bombings in Syria were different. He didn't target civilians, and definitely not civilians just because they were Alawi. Sure, Abu Muhammed.
Torture? Torture??? No, he's the one guy in the Middle East who has never ever been involved in torture.
Overall there's just way too much of this that reminds me of the Mafia. There's this very sanctimonious code of honor among jihadis, but when it comes down to it they're really all just about money. If you can generate money for your bosses then you get promoted.
Many of the leaders of the various factions in the Lebanese Civil War said afterwards something to the effect that yeah, I fricked up, I made mistakes, I did things that were wrong, I bear some share of responsibility for what happened. Now these are not great humanitarians, most of them are basically gangsters, but they at least can look back in hindsight and have some remorse for what they did. When this guy has sent God knows how many kids off to suicide bomb other kids and then he tells us did nothing wrong, I start to feel like I'm being lied to.
I'm cautiously optimistic that the future will be not quite as bad because this guy seems like he's just a sociopath. A sociopath won't hurt unless he has a reason to. The Assads were actually actively trying to be evil. They got off on hurting people. This guy though, he's just a complete fraud. And I would not be surprised if there's quite a few people in the New York PR world who were involved in creating his newer, friendly, compassionate jihadist persona.
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This time they got it right and respected his pronouns. They didnt last time and thats why he was mad.
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Tomorrow I swear I'm gonna measure his beard. I think he's been trimming it lately to seem more safe to western audiences.
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Jolani got taken by the woke mind virus. I'm expecting Sednaya Prison to be turned into a gender transition clinic.
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QRD on this? I always thought it was fired Iraqi army officers who started ISIS.
Still remember the now-scrubbed videos ISIS released before they got big of them bursting into Iraqi Army barracks and just fricking mowing down the sleeping conscripts
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That was a lot of it too. My understanding (I am not an expert here) is it was Saddam's Ba'athist officers who starting calling themselves Naqshibandi Sufis and suddenly found Mohammed who were the core of it.
The part that I know because it was happening openly in everyone's face is that every Muslim tard who wanted to die went to Syria and joined AQI/ISIS/whatever it was then. It was a fricking farce. It was worse than having our guys fight in Vietnam but not block the ports in Cambodia. They were constantly bringing in more guys from around the world to go to Iraq and fight our troops and Rumsfeld just sat around with his micropeepee in his hand sad that things were more difficult than he expected.
I cannot begin to express to you the rage I have for the traitors who got us into this war and immediately lost it.
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Is this the guy who shot the United Healthcare guy?
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Let's see...
...yes. The mainstream media can't talk about more than one thing at the same time, so they must both be the same guy.
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Justice for Luigi Ghadaffi Mangina al-Giuilani!
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He seems like a very reasonable guy. I wonder how he prefers to torture his political prisoners.
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Thomas Friedman said that they got trained by the East Germans. So certain mechanical stuff that the Nazis invented and they perfected. But he often just repeats rumors and I think he was just being salacious here.
The way they actually do this is pretty similar to everywhere else. Something that happens in most parts of the world outside the USA. You can (apparently, please God do not give me first-hand evidence) cause incredible pain to someone by beating the soles of their feet. One of the advantages is that it doesn't leave any marks. Most authoritarian regimes are trying to not be authoritarian 100% 24/7 so claiming that you didn't torture someone is valuable. (It's likely they will never walk again but
.) Arab countries and Iran are notorious for this, but it's no secret to the rest of the world.
The truth that you'll never see in movies is that you can just put somebody in a cell and not feed them and that's enough. Even with food, eventually they want to talk to somebody so bad, they spill their guts.
But that was never what this was about. Like Wing Commander Mandrake says:
They didn't want these people to talk. You don't keep someone in your dungeon for 40 fricking years because you want information. You do it because you like hurting people. The Assads were fricking sickos like Saddam Hussein.
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I played Quake.
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This isn't a fricking Agatha Christie novel where someone is trying to "get away with it". This was done totally in the open. The media put it somewhere around page A3 in the newspaper (you could do that back then
) but nobody ever tried to deny it was happening.
Things were really fricked up back then. You had Peepee Rumsfeld and the Neocons (I mean actual Neocons, Wolfowitz, Feith, etc.) saying that we'll go to Damascus next, and then Tehran. These guys were actual r-slurs. (Again not exaggerating, Gen. Franks called Douglas Feith the "fricking dumbest guy on the planet" and he was one of their great thinkers.) When they "took over" Baghdad they actually thought they won. And they were saying we'll go to Damascus next, then Tehran. The Neocon dream wasn't "blood for oil" like the quarterwits would have you believe. It was about spreading "democracy" in the region in a reverse domino theory where Iraq falling is the begin of the rest of the region.
So Assad and the Iranians do everything they can to nip this in the bud, even if it means dealing with people they don't like. Happens all the time. Sunnis & Shi'a, even extremists, there's no rule that they can't ever cooperate. Look at the alliances in the 1500s. It's something like England, France, and Morocco against the pope.
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Huh, makes sense. I was only asking cause Googling it didn't bring up anything.
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It was happening and not a secret but you'd have to go one layer deeper than the MSM. They were trying to cover Iraq like Vietnam ("our boys are heroes/babykillers"). They had no interest in telling you who we were fighting.
And one level deeper, it's been 20 fricking years so you're just gonna have to believe me and Martin Smith.
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And if your really want to know about Syrian history in the decades when Assad regime emerged...
Naw, I'm just fricking with you. It was really simple. They wanted to bog down the Americans and didn't care who did it.
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You may think you're hot stuff, the St. Nick of this topic — but if you're Kris Kringle, I'm Mrs. Claus: Anything you can do, I can do — backwards, without looking, and in high heels.
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