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gregory999
Joined: 29 Jul 2015 Posts: 372 Location: 999
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:07 pm Post subject: TIME Magazine Person of the year, 2015? |
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Is it Barak Obama?
No.
Is it John Kerry?
No.
Is it Vladimir Putin?
No.
Is it Angela Merkel?
No.
Is it the Pope?
No.
Then, who is it?
It has to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The editors of TIME magazine may have other ideas, but the sad fact is that the leader of the would-be Islamic State has changed the course of history
A decade ago, an obscure Iraqi of no fixed abode called Ibrahim al-Samarrai was completing a brief spell in US detention. Last month, the United Nations made him the world’s public enemy number one.
So it was that Samarrai - better known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - passed from nonentity to global villain. In a rare moment of unanimity, the Security Council declared the movement he leads to be an "unprecedented threat” and said every country on the planet should use “all necessary measures” to destroy his blood-soaked creation.
The passage of UN Resolution 2249 on November 20 probably marked the peak of the murderous career of Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). He has done nothing but evil and the lives of countless innocents are already seared on his conscience, but as someone who has changed the course of history, no one else has run him close in 2015.
As such, Baghdadi deserves to be TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” - to be revealed on December 9, when its editors put the most significant individual of the past 12 months on their cover, as they have been doing since 1927.
Baghdadi's significance in 2015 far exceeds other possible contenders like Vladimir Putin, who mounted his own quixotic intervention in Syria, and Angela Merkel, who decided to throw open Germany's doors to 900,000 refugees.
Tragically, Baghdadi’s efforts to bring war to the world are more significant than the peacemaking of John Kerry, the US secretary of state, who achieved the nuclear deal with Iran in July.
Most heart-wrenchingly of all, the terrorist leader’s memory will probably outlive that of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose death by drowning on a Turkish beach briefly pricked the conscience of Europe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12030139/Person-of-the-year-2015-It-has-to-be-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi.html |
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wangdaning
Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 3154
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Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:25 am Post subject: |
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Peace-making John Kerry
Also, it is sad that someone who is hardly known to most of the world becomes a media sensation. Are they trying to glamorize IS, guess it is what they need now that they are actually getting their ---es kicked. |
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steki47
Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 1029 Location: BFE Inaka
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, be on the lookout for rioting in the streets by Trump's outraged supporters |
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