Firstly there's the vengeance aspect. Al Qaeda did 9/11, along with many other terror attacks against the US.
Hurras al-din has also given support to ISIS, who destabilized a good chunk of the middle east. It's a bad look since a lot of Americans died to effect regime change in Iraq. If Iraq ends up turning into a full-blown theocracy, it makes our efforts there seem even more wasteful.
According to the Russians, he was trying to gather supplies to make illegal chemical weapons but definitely take that with a grain of salt.
Supposedly this helps US goals in Syria, but TBH I'm not really sure what the US goals are. I suspect that both our current and previous president would have a hard time articulating goals that are consistent with their actions in Syria
>Al Qaeda did 9/11, along with many other terror attacks against the US.
This statement is funny because the US support of "moderates" has resulted in military support of the Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda wing in Syria (they have tried to rebrand themselves, but only blind will not recognize in them a radical islamist organization).
1 - Because Russia is there and apart from a brief period of time at beginning of 90's in the rest three quarters of century US and Russia (Soviet or not) went to war with each other by proxies. Syria is just the latest proxy in that wrestling.
2 - Probably maintaining/honing the skills. "If you don't use it you lose it" it's a very old and very actual saying.
I got hit very hard by this one at beginning of my programming career. Went home for vacation after my 1st year at Uni and when came back 3 months later I got very surprised to find I lost my speed typing ability. Had to start from beginning and was very frustrating. Never let my guard down after that.
WPM? Key layout? Favourite keyboard and switch? Main and/or favourite programming language(s)? IDE/Code editor of choice? How have you been keeping up your typing speed since then?
Was learning Pascal and Assembler back then. Like I said took the 3 months off (former communist country, not everybody could afford to have such a device at home) so I had no PC interaction during that time. When I came back to school in October I found my typing was slower. The year was 1994, so over 25 years ago. Learned like every single major programming language ever since, it is my day job after all, the one that puts food on my family's table. Freelancer for 12 years now, I love working from home - it's basically pay to be around my kids. Any more hooks you need?
Was obviously just messing with you but I appreciate the serious answer. Very interesting to me as a fellow freelance dev with far less field time under his belt.
Hurras al-din has also given support to ISIS, who destabilized a good chunk of the middle east. It's a bad look since a lot of Americans died to effect regime change in Iraq. If Iraq ends up turning into a full-blown theocracy, it makes our efforts there seem even more wasteful.
According to the Russians, he was trying to gather supplies to make illegal chemical weapons but definitely take that with a grain of salt.
Supposedly this helps US goals in Syria, but TBH I'm not really sure what the US goals are. I suspect that both our current and previous president would have a hard time articulating goals that are consistent with their actions in Syria