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lil  ·  3468 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: IRC, STOUT AND WINERAMA, 11:00 p.m. EDT Monday, June 1.

I've just been reading this article called "Journey to Jihad" from The New Yorker. The New Yorker seems to let me in to read articles. Maybe you too. The article is about teenagers from Belgium who are recruited to fight in Syria and Iraq. Teenagers, like you. Are you susceptible to ideology? is nowaypablo going to be thoroughly ideologized once he sets foot in West Point?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/journey-to-jihad





galen  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reading this now. See you in 15

OftenBen  ·  3468 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I were an admissions officer at any military institute, I'd be very interested in my candidates online identity. Someone like pabs is, from my understanding, too much his own person to be heavily influenced by the ideological goals of West Point.