Quote from: Mikerogers on June 15, 2014, 10:00:41 PM

I know that many people die everyday in that part of the world and nobody cares, and honestly I was part of the group that didn't care until I met him on teamspeak.

Indeed. The Internet has enabled Bitcoin, but also people throughout the world to meet directly and not only through the lens of governments. This may be the greatest impediment to war, next to Bitcoin, in modern times. It's easy to be desensitized to killing off faceless people who seem quite apart from one's self.

More about ISIS:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/isiss-gains-in-iraq-fulfill-founders-violent-vision/2014/06/14/921ff6d2-f3b5-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html

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Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2006, but the organization he founded is again on the march. In just a week, his group formerly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq and now called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS has seized cities and towns across western and northern Iraq at a pace that might have astonished Zarqawi himself.

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Counterterrorism officials who tried to defeat the group during the Zarqawi era expressed begrudging respect for ISISs ability to recover from virtual extinction in the years after his death. The current leader, a former Iraqi teacher known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, managed to find new purpose in the Syrian conflict and renewed strength in the lawless regions of eastern Syria and western Iraq, where his fighters could train and plan without interference from U.S. and other Western military forces.