ISIS take downed pilot hostage CNN reports.

[Angry Irishman]

Unfortunately it was just a matter of time before this happened. I expect he will be kept for propaganda purposes for a while at least. Hoping for a civilized outcome.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/24/world....html?sr=fb122414jordanianpilot1030aStoryLink

 

[Thebobo]

Probably ransomed

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The report says they didn't down him but that's not all that important I suppose. Since it's a Jordanian pilot the reaction of ISIS may be more restrained. ISIS doesn't give a crap about almost anyone, but with Jordan being on their doorstep I wonder just how vicious they'll be to a pilot of a nation who would firebomb as soon as look at them, responding in ways we never would.

 

[Jaskalas]

ISIS has a history of hostage slaughter and genocide.

They deserve much the same in return. Their cities should be carpet bombed.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

ISIS has a history of hostage slaughter and genocide.

They deserve much the same in return. Their cities should be carpet bombed.

They don't have cities. They hold those of others under the threat of death or torture. You could pull a Dresden on those cities, kill some ISIS people and kill 90% of the rest of the population who just jump when ordered to stay alive. We'd kill far more than ISIS has. Sorry, I can't endorse that.

 

[Jaskalas]

They don't have cities.

We seem to easily draw maps of their territorial borders.
They appear, to me, to be a country of Sunni Muslims banded together for a genocidal crusade.

They hold those of others under the threat of death or torture. You could pull a Dresden on those cities, kill some ISIS people and kill 90% of the rest of the population who just jump when ordered to stay alive. We'd kill far more than ISIS has. Sorry, I can't endorse that.

For me it's not a notion of body count, but of ISIS extinction. "Pulling a Dresden" would most certainly end their threat to the world.

The alternative to that brutality is... what, precision strikes on known militant targets, while someone's military rolls in on ground and parks themselves on the streets waiting to provoke a response? That has to be a permanent troop presence. Ours? I can't endorse that.

Do we really expect the Iraqis to pull through after losing a very important half of their country? I expect to see them settle for present borders, leaving ISIS officially a new country. Or maybe take the Pakistani route of declaring them... tribal areas.