Posted on 04/01/2015 8:08:49 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
After months of being targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes, losing ground in Iraq and suffering defeat in a weeks-long assault to capture the Syrian border town of Kobani, is the Islamic State flagging and putting out feelers to see if a truce might be possible? Or is it just seeking to sow confusion in the ranks of its opponents and to undermine their unity and resolve by raising the idea of negotiations?
Intriguingly, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, floated the idea on Tuesday of a negotiated truce in the latest issue of the militants’ English-language magazine Dabiq, via an article written by one of the group’s remaining Western hostages, British photojournalist John Cantlie.
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Unconditional surrender, like the old days.
The only reason these creatures ever want a truce is to reload.
the only terms should be unconditional surrender, followed by mass summary executions.
Sure. The “peace of Saladin” is more like it.
someone told ISIS about april fools day?
It’s a Palestinian style ceasefire. Just long enough to rest and rearm.
A truce? Sure. Tell ya what: bring your leaders to meet in location x.once we know you’re there, they will be taken into custody, convinced to give us all the valid intel we need (using tactics they may be familiar with), followed by prompt execution of said leadership. Then resume destruction policy.
Rinse, repeat.
So a group that beheads innocent people, make refugees of many thousands, enslaves and sells women and has upset the entire Mideast region...
...now wants to play nice???
NO.
If we did not make a truce with the Nazi bastards during WWII then no truce with these animals.
Truce...? KILL THEM ALL...!
OK, I’ll agree to a truce....
(DEFCON I)
Dateline 15 May 2015: Arabia is no more. Israeli health authorities are scrambling to distribute Iodine supplements to the citizenry.
Kill them. They are moral atrocities. If they’re down, kick them in the teeth. If they are wounded, finish them off. They are human vermin. They are islam.
Islam must be destroyed.
Meanwhile, as radiation levels off, BP and Aramco are returning to the oil fields from whence they begun.
I would imagine it is the same with ISIS - it is no doubt so disjointed, like Al Queda is/was.
“”Truce” means “good opportunity to stab your enemy in the back” in Islamic.”
I think you mean “in the face”.
"Sure, a truce...."
And then bomb them back to the Stone Age whence they came.
Bomb the bastards back into the stone age.
Further than that, if possible.
Obama and Kerry will comply.
They need to rearm and recruit.
But we did make peace with Communist bastards who killed more people than the Nazis did
It’s a complicated world is not our indignation not withstanding
However I think the Islamic fanatics are unique in their barbarism and senselessness at least for modern times
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