Re:ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%
by 13thLetter on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @02:46PM
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Doesn't the old saw about "never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" comes to mind instead? American political leadership is desperately incompetent and is obsessed with avoiding bad publicity at all costs. That more than adequately explains our comically ineffectual war strategy.
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Re:ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%
by antod on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:12PM
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It seems that way to me. The current administration desperately hope to be able to do nothing and have it resolve itself or do just the bare minimum response to each crisis, but usually underestimate just what that bare minimum response is and have to ramp it up a bit due to political pressure or saving face.
Of course, that attitude is pretty much due to the previous administration being too naively adventurous and stupidly causing big messes that are still causing problems.
And the previous administrations attitude is due to them thinking the problems were caused by the previous previous administration being too weak in their military responses.
etc etc ad infinitum...
Re:ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%
by rorykoehler on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:29PM
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Thankfully we have wikileaks to clear that up for us so we don't have to "ascribe" anything.