Man, if this continues, ,isis will have enough stuff to create it's own tank divisions, air force & one day even navy.
The armed forces of the "Islamic State"
If so, it has failed miserably.
Funding a group like ISIS is insane. You can't control these guys. They would turn against the Qataris too.
i really hope that at least Saudi Arabia is smarter.
Probably.
I wonder, had America not attacked & Saddam would be still in power, would he, in wake of the "Arab Spring", face the same thing Assad experiences now?
Well, the Christians in the NE have no other choice but to work together if they want to survive & preserve Christianity in the region, because many Christians by name, at least here in Germany/Europe, don't really care...
Even i as a very secular Catholic am angry & frustrated by this indifference.
Maybe. But demographics are another big problem. We are old & our numbers are dwindling, they are young & their numbers are exploding. To fix this would take decades i think...decades that we don't have.
As a (non-religious) Roman-Catholic, the state of Israel has my full support.
At my home-church, every Sunday they sing "Shalom Chaverim" in support of the Jewish people. The oldest son of our Pastor converted even to Judaism & is studying In Israel to be a Rabbi. Says that Christians are just...
Well, i am not laughing.
I want deescalation, instead we get more and more escalation.
In the end, it will be ordinary European citizens both in the west & east who will have to pay.
In my hometown the church bells are playing, people chanting Deutschland" & firing rockets.
Annoying people like members of the green party & "Die Linke" must be raging with anger.