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Are Iraqie Militants a threat to civilisation?
The British and Yanks should never have gone into Iraq, it was a war of aggression. However we are where we are. These militants are a threat to the cradle of civilisation, God knows what they will do with artifacts in Bagdad. This will also spark war with Iran, dragging in what is left of syria, and eventually Israel.
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you see this sequence of events as a certainty?
i really don't care what they do to 'artefacts' in Baghdad - you know they are actually killing people right?
Yes, they have already proclaimed that they plan to destroy all idolatorous monuments, so not only is the entire pre-Islamic history of Iraq under death sentence, most of the post Islamic history is as well. Just goes to show, history can run backwards as well as forwards.
We should keep out, factor out the oil and concentrate on our own security.
They certainly don't enhance civilisation .,
Well. That is what I'm being told evey day on this forum .
I care about both.
What's that then Ted?
Baghdad has no artefacts they have all been stolen.
In the so called cradle of civilisation the warring Muslim tribes will be busy beheading each other and hacking people to pieces and slaughtering each other with guns and bombs.
What do they actually want? Do they even know? Apart from having fun killing people.
eta in answer to the OP, no they are not a threat to civilisation,no ignorant thug can ever be, they can damage but not destroy
Which civilisation?
At it's most basic the Anglo-Saxon Judeo/Christian civilisation may have been the dominant one of the last 2000 years - having been preceded by Roman. Which itself saw the end of Egyptian (as Cleopatra Ptolemy was the last pharaoh and she was Greek - descended from Alexander the Great's General Ptolemy).
Civilisations come and go.
So to answer the question - No they are not a threat to civilisation so much as a threat to the Anglo-Saxon Democratic civilisations, but they will create their own. Would I want to live in that civilisation - No.
Rubbish, close civilisations are connected one way or another through history and culture andin this day and age the world is more interconnected than it was ages ago, you cant destroy the existing without destroying yourself to a large extent IMO
even a baboon with one brain cell would be more intelligent than to risk world destruction
The Roman empire didn't go away it became the Catholic church
As for this issue, no they are not a threat to civilisation. We should work with other countries in a diplomatic, but not military, process. Military action, as we have seen before, is likely to make things even worse. My heart goes out to all the innocent people that are stuck in this situation.
A slight exaggeration........
No country should impose their economic and military will on others as these two have done so often in the past century.
Nice post but there was only one or two posts on this thread about "muslims" lets deal with the current violent inhumane thugs and the western thugs that support them, not sure which one is worst tbh...actually its the western enablers even if they didnt personally cut peoples heads off and parade them, gross the lot of them.....
True libertarian ethos right there.
Individual liberty for all regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, country of origin, or social or economic status.
perhaps sometimes the antithesis of this has to be flushed out with the ensuing violence before it can be a norm for most, dont know anymore
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Slight, but I clearly remember news of the looting way back when we went to war with them.
That sounds like a bloody good plan. If only.....:(
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Misprint. Meant to write that the Jihadi headbangers also want to destroy most post-classical - that is, Islamic era artefacts as well. They view Shia mosques, mausoleums and shrines as heretical and worthy of destruction.
Do you think this might have something to do with it?
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw
Entire families crucified.