Two men kidnap priest, take hostages in church near the French Rouen

Guided bombs that ended up killing 100s of civilians. Kinda defeats the purpose of a surgical strike wouldn't you say?

Stick to your agenda mate.

Any reason we shouldn't assume the obvious?

Dear B-52's, I know you had your prime in the 60's but you served us very well for the last 50 years. Its time that you commence your last mission before retirement.



Those so-called laser guided precision strikes dont work too well.....

The remaining 80 or so B-52s aren't going anywhere anytime soon, the US intends to keep them in service until at least 2045, possibly longer (they will be 90 years old by then!)

What, those bombs? Do you have any independent evidence for this?

My agenda is logic, reason and enlightenment, (as demonstrated by my dismantling of your "point"and I am gladly sticking to it.
What is yours?

Dismantling my point? You are a very funny guy.

Claiming these are so called "surgical strikes" whilst disregarding the true motives. Manbij was just devastated by these US-led coalition airstrikes which did kill over 70 civilians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/us-airstrike-allegedly-kills-56-civilians-in-northern-syria

Fact is, its not just Russia intensively bombing Syria. Accept the truth.

Logic, reason and enlightenment.

It's a joke to say the US or Russia target civilians, if they really wanted to do that then Raqqa would be a smouldering crater with 50,000+ dead or so by now, but it's not.

Quite the opposite they invest millions in laser guided munitions so the target is destroyed with minimal civilian damage. Hopefully a few more bombs are landing on Raqqa in the coming days

Attacks on Christians at prayer have been happening all over the Muslim world in recent times. In Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt. This is only big news because it happened in France.

And it has many historical precedents; this is from Donald Nicol's book on the capture of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) by the Ottomans on 29 May 1453....

"The sack and plunder of the city began as soon as the first Turks broke in, and as the day wore on there seemed no end to it. The conquerors were impatient to collect the rewards of their victory. Every living thing that stood in their way was slaughtered and the streets ran with blood... Rumour had it that the greatest treasures of all were to be found in St. Sophia, and the janissaries were eager to be the first to get there. The church was packed with terrified people. The doors had been bolted; but the soldiers quickly broke their way in and set to work tearing down the gold and silver omaments, murdering those who got in their way, and squabbling over the possession of the more desirable captives. For there was no means of escape. The male prisoners were tied together with ropes, the women were bound by their own veils and girdles and dragged away. The great church rang with the screams and tears of human beings so suddenly reduced to the state of tortured animals. The priests who had been celebrating the morning liturgy at the high altar when the Turks broke in were never seen again.

#ReligionOfPeace. Enough is enough, it's time to reverse the multicultural madness before things get as ugly as this on a wider scale and the people start taking the law into their own hands. Leaders must act decisively, and they must act now; anything less will result in a repeat of human tragedy in Europe. Do NOT moderate this post, you have NO right to censor

Actually, TSR is a private website so they can choose to delete the post if they wish

Guided bombs that ended up killing 100s of civilians.

Why would anyone hate Christians enough to do this? Don't they have a right to practice their faith without getting attacked?

That priest wasn't doing anything wrong.

Agree. But to say they are doing "surgical strikes" in themselves is also a joke. The aim of one is to minimise the risk of potential casualties whilst destroying its target but that isn't the case with the bombs in Syria at the moment.

Hundreds of civilians more than one occasion are dying so the nature of these air strikes must be questioned.