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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGlobal Domination Not Going Well
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33485-global-domination-not-going-wellISIS will fail. Brutality cannot defeat injustice. ISIS will paint this as a great victory. In fact, gunning down unarmed civilians is only a sign of impotence and desperation.
For decades the U.S. has waged the most inept and corrupt wars of domination and greed imaginable to the extent that they would not have been imaginable had the atrocities not actually been committed.
We are chasing ghosts in Mesopotamia, ghosts of men and civilizations we have defiled and slaughtered for decades. That does not justify what happened in Paris. It is however an indictment of war for profit.
We must respond with wisdom and determination. Not blind aggression and profiteering. The New American Century is over, really before it began.
Do not arm good guys. Do not allow profit to be a defense strategy. If we had stayed out of Iraq, ISIS would never have risen. Its a lot easier for ISIS to defeat themselves than it will be for the West to defeat them, by orders of magnitude. Get the idiots away from the command
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Global Domination Not Going Well (Original Post)
eridani
Nov 2015
OP
And yet some people still claim that there isn't a section of the left wing that hates America...
Donald Ian Rankin
Nov 2015
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malaise
(269,187 posts)1. Sadly as long as their is Goliath
there will be David however you define him. Anyone who wages war assuming there will be no blow back is a fucking idiot. Thanks George Bush!!
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)2. And yet some people still claim that there isn't a section of the left wing that hates America...
Criticising America's actions is not the same thing as hating America, obviously.
But distorting the facts this wildly in this direction is not plausibly explicable by anything else.
eridani
(51,907 posts)4. Your justification for a global military empire is what, then?
It certainly hasn't done much for the 99% here.
chowder66
(9,084 posts)3. Um...there are 54 countries involved in trying to take out Isis
That alone should speak to how complicated this is.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)5. don't forget Poland. n/t
chowder66
(9,084 posts)6. Poland is in the list