Two wrongs don't make a right. US militarism is wrong. Human rights abuses are wrong. I didn't say it's a "war for oil," it's wars for political and economic power mainly for maintaining access to resources, not only material resources. But you cannot help but straw man.
The West and colonialism caused much of this. They want the Middle East and North Africa unstable so we can manhandle their governments or lack thereof as much as we can get away with. Stop creating power vacuums, regime change, sanctions, etc. Stop creating more problems and maybe the Middle East and North Africa can stabilize and not be messes.
Is blowing people up a humanitarian thing in your mind?
I have never said abolish the military, abolish militarISM. You haven't noticed the difference, don't know the difference, and are probably straw-manning again.
No, it's the reverse: Militarism doesn't give a shit about those people. Militarism is starving and killing people, every day. Christmas day- US Militarism starved and killed people. Are you an evangelical Christian "End Times" warrior? Is that your deal? Who would Jesus bomb?
Pretending there is any equivalence whatsoever between the actions of the US and those of ISIS is moronic. Helping stop slavers and mass murderers is not the same thing as slaving or mass murdering. Especially considering that ISIS and other such groups routinely attempt to try and murder non-combatants in the wider world(not to mention their most common victims are Muslims of the “wrong” denomination). This is not a case of “two wrongs”. Only one side here is committing genocide....and it isn’t the US.
If that were actually true, once again, there’d be Marines in Caracas right now. The fact that there aren’t is just the most glaring example of why your claims are untrue.
Oh look, more whataboutism, attempting to find a “justification” for their atrocities committed by such groups. No, the West did not force groups like ISIS to blow up a Hazara market in Afghanistan, or hack Berbers to death for the “crime” of playing music in Algeria, or storm a school in Pakistan. No amount of crying about “colonialism“ justifies genocide. These are people who would still routinely committing mass murder even if not a single non Muslim was in the Middle East. They are the fanatical fringe, whose ideology is rejected overwhelmingly by most people in the Middle East. Your attempts to try and excuse their actions by muttering about “colonialism“ this or ”meddling“ that doesn’t change the facts.
Again, sanctions are the meaningful alternative to war when it comes to opposing brutal dictators like Assad of Syria. Just because you don’t care what happens to people in the Third World doesn’t mean the US should turn a blind eye. Allowing ISIS and Al Qaeda to run rampant
ensures that things will never stabilize, because those groups have no interest in stability.
Buddy, we already know that to people like you they are one and the same.
There is nothing wrong with blowing up genocidal thugs. Every ISIS member killed means untold numbers of innocent civilians live.
No,
you don’t care about those people. You don’t want the US to stop genocidal slavers, you don’t want the US to sanction brutal dictatorships, you cry about how the US helping allies is “meddling“......you place far more value on the lives of human traffickers, genocidal thugs, and serial rapists than you do the common people of the Middle East.
Last time I checked Jesus didn’t think genocide was okay either.
