UKC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35123748

I bet a size 4 nut that in a year, we will find out that we or one of our allies are arming, training or funding this Taliban unit in some way.

It will make a great film and George Clooney will play the US agent who walks into a meeting with a Taliban leader and jokes about how 10 years before they were both in the same battle on opposing sides, but now they are "friends". All the time, there will be a tension as George secretly plots to kill the man through a staged accident, but he gets found out and given a roughing over. The Taliban will probably involve his wife/girlfriend in some brutal way. When it comes to the final battle scenes we will be torn over whether we want the IS commander to win as he gets a chance to finish the Taliban leader that we've grown to hate. Does George help Taliban or IS? We ponder this question for a moment, before BLAM, an "accidental" off-course drone strike takes all 3 of them out. The headline simply reads, "3 more militants eliminated today".

In reply to Parrys_apprentice:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/31/petraeus-use-al-qaeda-fighters-to-beat-isis.html

I'm casting Ben Affleck as Petraeus and an eye patch-sporting Al Pacino as a "is he dead yet?" Mullah Omar

In reply to iksander:

there really are non new stories are there?

apart from the story of how peace finally came to the middle east, that would be a new one.

In reply to iksander:

I'm casting Peter Griffin as Donald Fart, President of the Free (of Islamists) World who extends his feck off wall to circumnavigate the world to keep the nasties out.

This situation gets crazier by the day.

In reply to Parrys_apprentice:



They tried that one before, it didn't end well dude could heal the sick and make endless booze from water, and his own people handed him over to the man to nail him up on a tree, and now we blow each other up because one team thinks they know the dudes dads real name and the other team don't so they should die. Does anyone know where the restart button is to wake everyone up or do I live in the matrix and there is no restart button?

In reply to Parrys_apprentice:

With western support, the Kurd subdue almost the entire Middle East. They draw different lines on maps more in accord with cultural factors on the ground and introduce democratic institutions. Kurdistans is a large dominant island of peace and prosperity in an ocean of shambolic UN-sponsored hangers-on trying to get the hang of hybrid democratic affairs for two decades before they decend into chaos. The new lesser Turkey, Iran, Kurdistan and Israel collaborate to subdue the collections of rogues around them and they all live happily ever after.

If you ever needed a definition of fiction, there you have it!