Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Relapse wrote:
One wonders where things are headed when the King of Jordan begins quoting Clint Eastwood from "Unforgiven" as he talks about vengeance.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/after-isis-execution-angry-king-abdullah-quotes-clint-eastwood-to-us-lawmakers/

Well, we know it's going places when he also throws in some DeNiro/Taxi Driver quotes... "you lookin' at me, punk? Huh? You lookin' at me?"

Or, he could go with more Eastwood:

Spoiler:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:



Get off my desert?

 Jihadin wrote:
I bet he watched "Hang Em High" on his flight back home

 Da krimson barun wrote:

 whembly wrote:






I'd rather that we didn't as it took a surprised attack on Peal Harbor to get us engaged in WW2.

I'd rather we just stay out of it and let the rest of the world deal with it.

I'd only get involved if the rest of the world begged the US to intervene and only then.[/u]

So.....what does the US have that massive army for again?

 Vaktathi wrote:
Apparently he is indeed taking a personal role. .

 Vaktathi wrote:


The King is a super interesting guy, US & UK educated, great military background, huge Trekkie (with a small part in Voyager), been on the Daily Show, has Islamic religious credibility as the Jordanian royal family claims to descend from Muhmmad but leads probably the most westernized state in the middle east along with Turkey aside from Israel, etc

Also he has a super hot wife.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
My Jordanian friend suggests that the reports of King Abdullah personally leading a strike on Daesh are... exaggerated to say the least.

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday.

Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.

"We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities," committee expert Renate Winter told a news briefing. "The scope of the problem is huge."

Children from the Yazidi sect or Christian communities, but also Shi'ites and Sunnis, have been victims, she said.

"We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding," Winter told Reuters. "There was a video placed (online) that showed children at a very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers."

Islamic State is a breakaway al Qaeda group that declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. It has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what the United Nations has called a reign of terror.

On Tuesday, the group, which is also known as ISIL, released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq's record for the first time since 1998, denounced "the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive".

A large number of children have been killed or badly wounded during air strikes or shelling by Iraqi security forces, while others had died of "dehydration, starvation and heat", it said.

ISIL has committed "systematic sexual violence", including "the abduction and sexual enslavement of children", it said.

"Children of minorities have been captured in many places... sold in the market place with tags, price tags on them, they have been sold as slaves," Winter said, giving no details.

The 18 independent experts who worked on the report called on Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to "rescue children" under the control of Islamic State and to prosecute perpetrators of crimes.

"There is a duty of a state to protect all its children. The point is just how are they going to do that in such a situation?", Winter said.

(Additional reporting by Marina Depetris; Editing by Crispian Balmer)

They’re having the time of their lives. This kind of violence is captivating, exhilarating and thrilling to these guys. It’s never going to get better for them than this,” Peters said. “They have power now. They can exert their will over others.

This was better than the best sex they’ve ever had, and it’s easier on the goats!

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
My Jordanian friend suggests that the reports of King Abdullah personally leading a strike on Daesh are... exaggerated to say the least.

I guess that is true. He is probably just personally commanding units on the frontlines rather than actually hopping in a fighter jet and bombing stuff in person. He would be a fool if he put himself at risk like that. There is a clear reason kings and other leaders no longer lead from the front nowadays (unless you are Motorola, but he is crazy)
If he did, he would totally beat Putin as the most badass world leader tough.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
My Jordanian friend suggests that the reports of King Abdullah personally leading a strike on Daesh are... exaggerated to say the least.

I guess that is true. He is probably just personally commanding units on the frontlines rather than actually hopping in a fighter jet and bombing stuff in person. He would be a fool if he put himself at risk like that. There is a clear reason kings and other leaders no longer lead from the front nowadays (unless you are Motorola, but he is crazy)
If he did, he would totally beat Putin as the most badass world leader tough.

According to reports I am wrong, as is my friend and His Majesty has personally engaged the enemy however at least once blog has an Arabic translation that is apparently the Jordanian government publicly denying King Abdullah will be personally stomping terrorist skulls in (much to his own disappointment I'm sure)

http://therightscoop.com/now-this-is-awesome-jordanian-king-to-fly-bombing-raids-over-isis/

 Hordini wrote:
It's subsidized defense for western Europe.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Hordini wrote:
It's subsidized defense for western Europe.

We do not need that, we have our own armies. And nukes. Enough nukes. Who needs an army for defense when you have nukes? You just nuke your invader's country off the surface of the Earth.

 Frazzled wrote:
Britain and France have nukes. None of the other European nations have nukes (IIRC).
If Putin wanted to drive into Germany tomorrow, you would do nothing about it.