The Frontline is pretty interesting. The US military left hardware including vehicles and weapons undefended which ISIS simply took. Then some time passed and ISIS decided to attack an oil town in the north that the military actually cared about. A fighter jet was deployed - the pilot hit a button that deployed smart guided missiles - and that was the end of that idea. Not a threat to the US. But some soldiers raping people and chopping peoples heads off.
Isn't that the nature of a group - it needs to have boundaries that define it both the positive and negative sense (eg. people in our group support X and don't support Y). Otherwise the group or culture has no boundary and therefore includes everyone and cannot be considered a subset.
The first time around it didn't get adequate attention in the US media.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.
The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".
In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to "make up a cause of war".
> The first time around it didn't get adequate attention in the US media.
Quite an understatement. Some of the news outlets deemed it unnecessary to mention what was said in the leaked tapes and instead referred to it as a "military strategy".
If that wasn't completely tongue-in-cheek, check out Lars Monsen[0] on NRK.no if possible from your country. He's the real deal. Now to look up Survivorman...
