Posted on 06/16/2013 6:47:43 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists.
The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved like bandits.
She said his headless corpse was found by the side of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and was soon to be a father.
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yes..it is a satanic cult that pretends to be a religion from God.
ping to all...
I tell my kids they are dumbass identifiers.
Not since 1945.
I don’t know. We can try to inform people, which helps a little. We can get behind the good leaders, but there are very few of them, and the powers that be make sure that none of them get nominated for POTUS.
It is very difficult. A. M. Rosenthal, a long-time editor of the NY Times, spoke out about the killings of Christians around the world by Muslims and Communists, and tried to organize a group who would spread the word against the persecution of Jews and Christians, but not long after that he was retired from the newspaper.
Oddly he was permitted, for years, to prevent reporters and underling editors from running openly gay stories in the Times, whose staff was largely gay even then. It didn’t become the foremost gay newspaper until he left. But speaking out about the worldwide persecution of Christians proved to be too much for them to permit, and he was eased out the door.
agreed!!
Good Lord....don’t send our men into that hell hole.
You didn't comment on my post to you from a week ago. Would like to discuss the Vietnamese conflict? No matter. I appreciate your point of view.
Methinks the prophets Isiah and Ezekiel prophecies will come true, just like their other prophecies have.
A well known Chinese curse is coming true, to wit: may you live in interesting times.
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Re the Sino-Indian and the Sino-Vietnamese border wars, these things are to the participants a lot like the way the various characters in the Kurosawa movie Rashomon perceived that melodrama - every single person saw something quite different from what the others did. As an amateur Russia-watcher turned China-watcher (after the collapse of the Berlin wall), what strikes me about the end of the Sino-Indian and Sino-Vietnamese wars is how vehemently the Indians and the Vietnamese feel that they were defeated. And the reason they feel this is because of their perception that they lost territory in those clashes. Clearly, there was no shortage of triumphalism on all sides during the conflicts in question - a fair amount issued in order to buck up morale and bolster support for the respective governments in power at the time.
Ultimately, I think there's a lot of reflexive and unwarranted contempt for the fighting ability of Chinese forces. Between their record in the Korean War and as the one of the few countries in Asia that inflicted enough casualties on European troops during their limited clashes to deter complete conquest, I'd say they have little to prove.
Re the Vietnamese, I'd say the seeds of future contention between the DRV and PRC were sown as early as 1974, over a year before the collapse of Saigon in 1975, when the PRC occupied the Paracel Islands and drove off an RVN attempt to dislodge them. I suspect it was then that that the DRV realized that the Chinese might have adopted the Communist label, but they continued to divide the world into two categories - current provinces and future provinces.
As to may you live in interesting times, that's probably chinoiserie, rather than Chinese. It was one of the literary devices used by authors when they wanted to use an aphorism that they had coined and thought sounded neat but needed a source of ancient provenance to give it weight. Given that very few Westerners then (or now, for that matter) were acquainted with the Chinese language, it was easy enough to attribute the saying to the Chinese.
what strikes me about the end of the Sino-Indian and Sino-Vietnamese wars is how vehemently the Indians and the Vietnamese feel that they were defeated. And the reason they feel this is because of their perception that they lost territory in those clashes.
That is total bovine excrement. The Indians gained territory, and the Viet incident was a draw regarding territory (the Chinese losses by Western standards was, again "horrific."), and the Indians would laugh at that assessment in your post. I've spoken to the Indians (and as my previous post to you, the Pakistanis). And no, I haven't spoken to any of the N. Vietnamese (of course that was/is forbidden given my background).
Your intelligence is admirable, and your perspective is interesting. I will watch your posts.
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My impression of Indian attitudes towards the outcome of the Sino-Indian War comes from the Indian press as well as from various online forums. World Affairs Board has a number of Indian posters who have presented their views of the conflict. Here's a representative thread.
On the Sino-Vietnamese War, I doubt the Chinese casualties came as much of a surprise to the Chinese leadership. The North Vietnamese had just purchased billions of dollars of top-of-the-line Soviet equipment for their conventional invasion of the South, and had fought a decade-long war of attrition against US, allied and South Vietnamese forces, buttressed with huge amounts of Soviet aid. Note that up until the 90's, the Chinese were still producing equipment that wasn't merely outdated, but unreliable, as well, if Thailand's experience with procured Chinese tanks and warships is any guide. What's impressive is that the Chinese went in and got out without being routed, despite the negative impact of the famine of the Great Leap Forward in the 60's and the persecution of the less ideological elements of the Chinese leadership during the Cultural Revolution. And they hung on to significant chunks of land from which they could not be dislodged, despite all Vietnamese efforts.
Now, the overt Chinese objective was to punish Vietnam for toppling the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia and perhaps persuade the Vietnamese to leave Cambodian soil. In that objective, the Chinese failed. In territorial terms, however, they gained a few hundred square miles of land. And that's not nothing. Was the land gained worth the men lost? Not in Western terms. But to the Chinese leadership, it might have been worth demonstrating to the world that Chinese troops could advance against an seasoned army equipped with top-of-the-line Soviet equipment without any air support. And the Vietnamese were unable to stop the Chinese from either entering the country or leaving in good order.
World Affairs Board has a number of Indian posters who have presented their views of the conflict. Here's a representative thread.
Just like I warned you about Wikipedia, that is not indicative of Indian thought given that I have told you about direct Indian officer (and again Paki) testimony.
And the Vietnamese were unable to stop the Chinese from either entering the country or leaving in good order.
Mostly true regarding entering, not so much in leaving.
Can you tell me anything about yourself? FReepmail is fairly secure.
If not, I understand.
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It occurs to me that what you heard from primary sources during and after the conflict might have been the truth, to the extent that such a thing can exist in these situations. And Nehru might have downplayed it, and engaged in feigned public breast-beating, so that India could keep its gains, such as they were, without any further military challenges (out of wounded pride/prestige) from the Chinese. Whatever the reality, Indians I speak to seem to think that the resolution of the Sino-Indian War was a disaster for India.
I said on 12 September 2001 that we would fight these guys for fifty years and never finish it
I said the same way before you. A lot of people knew we were going to have problems way before then.
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