Turkey struck by deadliest terrorist attack in modern Turkey’s history.

2015-10-10T14:34:20-04:00

Turkish authorities blamed the Islamic State for the attack. Will we ever be able to stop ISIS, or is it even possible, is the area to far gone?
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Response by 1stSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 10 at 2015 2:35 PM

2015-10-10T14:35:56-04:00

This shit is out of control. Muslims are attacking muslims.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Oct 10 at 2015 2:55 PM

2015-10-10T14:55:26-04:00

When Obama neglects a problem long enough it will rise to a level he will be forced to notice.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Oct 10 at 2015 3:03 PM

2015-10-10T15:03:58-04:00

Turkey has supported ISIS, and this policy has now blown back on them.

Response by SFC Everett Oliver made Oct 10 at 2015 3:17 PM

2015-10-10T15:17:23-04:00

They can be stopped, but it will take a leader to do it. A leader who doesn't care about being PC.....

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Oct 10 at 2015 4:39 PM

2015-10-10T16:39:34-04:00

Questions like this one make me wonder if I wandered into "the room" by mistake. I haven't a clue who is responsible for "this latest attack"? Do you? If y'all do, I'm definitely in the wrong place, a mere veteran in the midst of "experts"...

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Oct 10 at 2015 5:22 PM

2015-10-10T17:22:39-04:00

At a peace rally of all places. I believe the death toll is now being reported at 96 with possibility of higher numbers. There is evil in this world. To try and convince me that we will be save on our own turf and therefore no longer in need for our supply of weapons is a joke.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 10 at 2015 5:23 PM

2015-10-10T17:23:07-04:00

The Yankees was a joke, not the team but the choice.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Oct 10 at 2015 5:23 PM

2015-10-10T17:23:24-04:00

New York Rangers needs to be added to the list of options.

Response by LCDR Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 10 at 2015 5:26 PM

2015-10-10T17:26:03-04:00

I think that the battle against ISIS needs to be fought state by state. Turkey needs to secure Turkey, Israel secure Israel etc. The problem is the states who cannot secure themselves need intervention from others but aren't always willing to accept it.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 10 at 2015 5:28 PM

2015-10-10T17:28:43-04:00

Yeah I got this already but it is good to let everyone know about this horror.

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 12 at 2015 8:32 AM

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Good for them ... they are the one that wishing ISIS there anyway. Now the lion they realized bite them too .... a full circle back to them.

Response by TSgt Kenneth Ellis made Oct 12 at 2015 11:53 AM

2015-10-12T11:53:56-04:00

I hate that word hostage. Obama uses it all the time. Even when his henchman Harry Ried was running things. We all know that the NRA is really in control.

Response by Capt Jeff S. made Oct 12 at 2015 4:04 PM

2015-10-12T16:04:35-04:00

Turkey is widely considered a moderate Islamic country (as opposed to Iran, which is more hard-line Islamic), but this statement recently came from a Turkish newspaper:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11360374.asp
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Prime Minister objects to ’moderate Islam’ label

ANKARA - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected attempts to call Turkey the representative of moderate Islam. "It is unacceptable for us to agree with such a definition. Turkey has never been a country to represent such a concept. Moreover, Islam cannot be classified as moderate or not," Erdoğan said, speaking at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies late Thursday.
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Soooo, if there is no such thing as moderate Islam and Islam is Islam, then the difference between a Muslim and a Muslim Terrorist is that one buys the bullets and the other shoots them.

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Response by Capt Jeff S. made Oct 12 at 2015 4:05 PM

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In answer to the above, I would say we can stop ISIS and Russia is showing some progress. We got in on the wrong side of this fight and dare I say, our actions in the Middle East are in a large part responsibile for the creation of ISIS. We can achieve great success against them if we simply quit caving to political correctness and call out their terrorism for what it is. We will never win if we keep electing terrorist sympathizers and putting them in the White House.

The world is waking up, albeit a bit late, to the scourge blighting the Earth, which is Islam. I still think we have not gone past the tipping point. Once the world sees Islam for what it is, it will lose its appeal. Sadly, it appeals mostly to the ignorant and uneducated because it offers simple solutions to their problems and an easy ticket to heaven, that can turn a complete loser into a martyr and hero.

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This topic was merged with a survey which asked who was to blame for the violence:
a) Christianity
b) Muslims
c) Terrorist Muslims
d) New York Yankees

I would say b) only because if you listen to Muslims, they will tell you there is no such thing as moderate Islam. They make no differentiation and whenever terrorist acts are done, they simply say, that doesn't represent true Islam.

Turkey is widely considered a moderate Islamic country (as opposed to Iran, which is more hard-line Islamic), but this statement recently came from a Turkish newspaper:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11360374.asp
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Prime Minister objects to ’moderate Islam’ label

ANKARA - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected attempts to call Turkey the representative of moderate Islam. "It is unacceptable for us to agree with such a definition. Turkey has never been a country to represent such a concept. Moreover, Islam cannot be classified as moderate or not," Erdoğan said, speaking at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies late Thursday.
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Soooo, if there is no such thing as moderate Islam and Islam is Islam, then the difference between a Muslim and a Muslim Terrorist is that one buys the bullets and the other shoots them.

Response by Capt Jeff S. made Oct 12 at 2015 4:53 PM

2015-10-12T16:53:37-04:00

It's not too far gone. Our actions in the Middle East are in large part responsible for the creation of ISIS. We equipped the terrorist rebels in the Arab Spring and left a vacuum of power in Iraq which ISIS filled. During the initial stages, instead of nipping the problem in the bud we ignored it and called them the JV team. Now the cancer has metastasized and is going to be more difficult to deal with but I don't think they are too far gone.

We will never beat ISIS if we continue to elect terrorist sympathizing foreign policy failures like what we have in this Administration. As long as we are hamstrung by political correctness and a need to elect idiots based on the color of their skin, we will have a tough fight on our hands. I don't think the ISIS fighters are all that. Their cause is not legit. They are nothing more than a bunch of raping, pillaging, murderous thugs pushing a socially and morally bankrupt theology. We can beat them at their own game...

Obama is on the wrong side of this fight and his actions have simply exacerbated our problems in the Middle East... and perhaps this is exactly what he wants to see: America on the decline and our influence in world affairs diminished. He just dropped 50 tons of supplies in to the terrorist Syrian rebels who are trying to topple Assad. Why are we propping up Islamic terrorists?!!! Russia, on the other hand is trying to prop up Assad, because they feel [rightly so!] that the alternative to him would be worse...

Every gov't we have replaced in the Middle East has been followed up by a more hardline Islamic gov't. Our track record of success is terrible. We have screwed up everything we touched over there.

Our leaders should have listened to Putin when he warned us against propping up the Syrian rebels. We SHOULD be working WITH Russia on this instead of against them!!! Russia is achieving a measure of success because they (unlike this Administration) don't feel a need to cave to political correctness.

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Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Oct 12 at 2015 6:06 PM

2015-10-12T18:06:50-04:00

ISIS is the 500 pound gorilla in the region, and they are surrounding themselves with enemies.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 13 at 2015 3:37 PM

2015-10-13T15:37:43-04:00

My guess is that was some offshoot of the PKK willing to accept Kurdish losses to improve the HDP's numbers in the November elections.

Response by CPT Pedro Meza made Oct 14 at 2015 11:30 AM

2015-10-14T11:30:46-04:00

IS/DAESH can be stopped when all countries work together to deal with the threat, but it must start by removing the false religious label.