Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘al-Nusra Front’

The bizarre Russian kabuki theater in Syria

We live in an era of dishonesty, willful blindness, and stupidity. This makes it hard to know what’s really happening. I can’t tell you with 100 percent certainty what the Russians are up to in Syria, but I know it’s kabuki. It’s a stylized performance for the masses, meant to save Russian face. Here’s what…

 

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Some faith is based on knowledge

One of the more tedious aspects of social media is the pathological need that people have to “debate.” What they’re actually trying to do is force their own beliefs on others. The ethos of “Live and let live” doesn’t exist in social media. Social-media absolutists go crazy over faith. To them, faith is a childlike…

 

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Jihadist terrorism will always fail

It amazes me that people still believe the press about anything, but on the other hand, that works to the advantage of civilization. Jihadist terrorism is in the process of failing spectacularly—yet again—and the reason is that the terrorists believe both their own press and the swooning prattle of the western media. Prior to July…

 

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Why the Islamic State wins battles in Iraq and Syria

There are specific reasons why the Islamic States performs well militarily in Iraq and Syria. What’s happening in those two countries is that the armed forces are losing. The Islamic State is winning nothing. Its victories are being handed to it, over and over. Like The Andromeda Strain, the Islamic State can exist only under…

 

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The Islamic State versus Hamas

On April 1, 2015, the Islamic State assaulted the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk in Syria. As is always the case with Palestinians, the press refuses to tell us the reality of the situation. The British newspaper the Guardian calls Yarmouk a Palestinian refugee camp, but in a later piece describes it as “a bustling southern…

 

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Pallywood from the al-Nusra Front

The al-Nusra Front is the official al-Qaeda presence in Syria. Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State had a falling out, so there’s a four-way fight going on in Syria. These are the combatants, as far as everyone is admitting. The Kurds fight all Sunni jihadists. They and the non-jihadist groups should be the only people we…

 

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The Taliban and the Islamic State

The US never supported, trained, or armed either the Taliban or the Islamic State. Every day somebody tells me that the US created both terrorist organizations. This is evidence of the decay of education in the western world and how politics destroys one’s ability to engage in critical thinking. When you personalize politics, you pledge…

 

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