Boko Haram stepping up its game

[fan_since79]

President Obama to send 300 troops to Cameroon to join coalition that is fighting Boko Haram.

 

Suicide bombings over the weekend have killed scores of people there and in Chad.

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-deployment-300-troops-cameroon-153209707.html#G3xZGfH

[Crampknees]

So are you for Obama doing this or not?  

[fan_since79]

So are you for Obama doing this or not?  

 

I'd start with bombing the hell out of them if we can do it with minimal loss to civilians. That's very difficult to realize in practice, though.

 

In reality, you would need boots on the ground to fight these savages, but the number needed would be more like 30,000 than 300, and that's politically untenable. There's no good solution.

Edited October 14, 2015 by fan_since79

[Tank]

i'm okay with this. these people are savages and the world needs to come together to put an end to this nightmare.

 

are drones being used yet? this might be a place where they can be utilized, depending on the circumstances.

[Ray McKigney]

They need to be stopped. They haven't written anything worthwhile since Whiter Shade of Pale.

[fan_since79]

Two bombing attacks in Nigeria have left dozens of people dead and over a hundred wounded. One of the suicide bombers was an 11-year old girl.

 

How do you fight an enemy like this?!

[gotbeer]

if I am not mistaken.  I believe in Nigeria and Chad, it's more jungle warfare.  Where in Syria and Iraq it's desert warfare.  

 

I really dont think that drones will help much in this situation, because they just hide in the jungle.  I think when those schoolchildren were taken, they were taken deep into the jungle.  And as Vietnam showed, even if you bomb the crap out of the jungle, they just find holes to hide in till it's over.  

 

Really you need boots on the ground.  

 

Or just turn the continent of Africa into a penal colony for the world.  

[ten ocho recon scout]

These guys dont get near the press they deserve. And i dont mean that in a good way. Theyre just as bad as ISIS.

Then again i think the cartels are just as bad. The world is a lot uglier than a lot of people realize sadly.

[Tank]

Two bombing attacks in Nigeria have left dozens of people dead and over a hundred wounded. One of the suicide bombers was an 11-year old girl.

 

How do you fight an enemy like this?!

 

an 11 year old girl? what kind of vicious evil mind would conceive of even asking her to help? wow, that's clearly a new low.

[gotbeer]

These guys dont get near the press they deserve. And i dont mean that in a good way. Theyre just as bad as ISIS.

Then again i think the cartels are just as bad. The world is a lot uglier than a lot of people realize sadly.

 

I believe Boko Haram is allied with ISIS.  

 

Boko Haram purportedly pledges allegiance to ISIS

[ten ocho recon scout]

I believe Boko Haram is allied with ISIS.

Boko Haram purportedly pledges allegiance to ISIS

Yeah, seperate group, but boko haram is trying to get validated with them. Dont think isis has given them the blessing yet.

If anyone is familiar with prison gangs, if isis is the aryan brotherhood, BH is like NLR and PEN1.

More accurate al qaeda would be the AB, but unlike when NLR tried to move up, ISIS has succeeded

[ten ocho recon scout]

an 11 year old girl? what kind of vicious evil mind would conceive of even asking her to help? wow, that's clearly a new low.

AQI used retarded people...

[Tank]

AQI used retarded people...

Both ideas are evil beyond evil.

[ten ocho recon scout]

I think ISIS won't let them join because they're black. I read something like that.

cant sag your pants with a suicide belt. Dont get the same effect

[arch stanton]

I think it's more because they disagree with some minor point of the way they practice Islam.

[fan_since79]

I think it's more because they disagree with some minor point of the way they practice Islam.

 

Sunnis and Shias disagree on the identity of the true successor of Mohammed and have been slaughtering each other for 13 centuries over that point.

 

Nice religion.

[fan_since79]

The subhuman savages had a busy day today. They shot a bunch of people in a village, then burned children to death in their homes, and capped it off by bombing a crowd. At least 100 dead.

[wopphil]

Maybe the people who reside in these nations/regions need to step up and fix this problem themselves.

[Jason]

This world is turning into a giant toilet.

[Amazing Larry]

It's always been a toilet over there. Today's media just enables us to see it all now.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Was about to say were fortunate in the US that we havent had large scale problems like the ME, europe at various points in the last century, central america, africa etc in terms of mass violence. Then again, gang violence isnt much different.

[Adam]

And 15 miles away from the hottest community in the Western Hemisphere

[ten ocho recon scout]

It is ironic that for a time there in the 90s, little saigon was probably more violent than real saigon

[AngelsLongBall]

It is ironic that for a time there in the 90s, little saigon was probably more violent than real saigon

Related/unrelated, my Dad keeps on me to move from LB.  He signs up for text alerts from police departments (NIXLE) for the cities my siblings and I live in (grew up in Pasadena area) and he fears for my safety in East LB b/c of all the murder alerts he gets for LB.  North LB is worlds apart from East LB.

[Tank]

Related/unrelated, my Dad keeps on me to move from LB.  He signs up for text alerts from police departments (NIXLE) for the cities my siblings and I live in (grew up in Pasadena area) and he fears for my safety in East LB b/c of all the murder alerts he gets for LB.  North LB is worlds apart from East LB.

 

the obvious answer is that you need to move to bixby knolls. sure, it's hotter than the surface of the sun there, but i hear good things about it.