ISIS photographs detail execution of Iraqi soldiers (WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

The Long War Journal ^ | June 15 2014 | Bill Roggio

[xzins]

ISIS allows photos and the US government doesn’t.

Interesting

[GOPJ]

Isn’t it a war crime to execute/torture POWs? Where is Code Pink? Where is Michael Moore? Where is John F. Kerry? Where is the outrage?

Michael Moore and John Kerry are hanging out in their mansions... Maybe their butlers know if they're outraged.

[cherokee1]

“something in the Arab national character-—” Oh, Yeah. Like oh say basic ignorance and the willingness to fight learning with every tool available. Getting out of the 6th century requires a couple steps like maybe mastering the flush toilet-—for starters. The overwhelming desire to stick with tribal governance, ie Sharia Law, is guaranteed to keep them trading goats for wives for the next couple centuries at least.

[Nowhere Man]

I’m surprised the soldiers do not fight back, I think there is enough to overpower the ISIS guards unarmed even if a few of the soldiers die trying. They could try to pick up a rock, anything.

[Nowhere Man]

My thoughts exactly, if I was one of those captured, I’d look for a rock, knife, baseball bat anything and go down fighting if it must be.

[Sherman Logan]

basic ignorance and the willingness to fight learning with every tool available.

Doesn't explain why Arabs produced no great political or military leader from 900 to 1800.

[Sherman Logan]

The overwhelming desire to stick with tribal governance, ie Sharia Law, is guaranteed to keep them trading goats for wives for the next couple centuries at least.

Many other Muslim people produced great leaders, but not the Arabs, though they all equally observed sharia.

[jjotto]

Military genius is as much about getting a technological edge; the stirrup, the long bow, Damascus steel, etc. Arabs ran out of superior technological cultures to plunder.

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Just 2 unrelated thoughts:

The ISIS remind me of rag-headed and face-covered Mexican gang members who are currently crossing our borders.

And notice, not a single Hebrew in sight concerning these war crimes.

[Sherman Logan]

Sorry, but I don’t buy it. The Mongols and Turks and Kurds (Saladin) and Mamelukes had no technology not available to Arabs, but they conquered all over the place from 900 to 1800. The Arabs just didn’t.

Arabs were not a conquering people before Mohammed, and they haven’t been since 900. They had a brief moment in the sun and then lapsed back lassitude.

[Dalberg-Acton]

It seems they have different “Rules of Engagement”.

[jjotto]

Good points. Arabs were done after the Umayyeds.

[Sherman Logan]

Well, the Abassids held their own for a century or two, but the conquests were largely over.

[Secret Agent Man]

i am not laying down in a damn ditch waiting to be slaughtered that is for g-d sure.

[MarMema]

so well said.

[Does so]

Muslim against Muslim...

The video cries for US leadership.

I'd expect many of those murdered "Muslim" soldiers were trained and equipped by American troops—many of whom look on "The Caliphate" with dismay.

I do. :(