Phrossack
Armored Fish and Armored Men
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I'm not sure that IS are being all that innovative by killing defenceless Palestinian refugees.
I quite like IS. In a way. They're unapologetic about their tactics, instead of the usual mealy mouthed platitudinous hypocrisy we've become all too familiar with from other sources.
If you're going to go to war at all, you may as well make all your potential enemies respect you for your brutality. Not for me any of this Geneva convention nonsense. War is war and peace is peace. Let's not muddle them up.
I don't understand why people think hypocrisy is literally worse than genocide, sex slavery, and sawing off people's heads or burning them alive for the world to see. If one side says it doesn't want to kill civilians but sometimes does, and the other practices slavery, tries to exterminate entire religious/ethnic groups, and savagely executes civilians, you cannot possibly say they're morally equal just because one is hypocritical. Hypocrisy has nothing on the evils ISIS are committing. Nothing, and the sooner we stop pretending evil is okay as long as you're honest, the better. War's brutality can be limited, and it's dangerous to pretend otherwise. Your moral equivalencies have gone too far this time.