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I admit I was a little harsh and excessive there. I'll stick to my point though that deciding when, where, and to what degree to deploy force to relieve suffering or effect change is something that your nation - or most nations - rarely has to debate. In the current case, the people of northern Iraq were not pleading with the Canadians to intervene. Nobody asked Germany to drop water and food. It is easy to pass judgment from a position of hindsight. You can clearly see that the role the US should play in world affairs, in policing the world, is one of great debate and heated opinion. This is a debate that your country is not having, never has, and never will.
No, it is because your country is not capable of helping and are willing to sit idly by while suffering and injustice takes place. You are militarily weak and morally tenuous.
I disagree. Unless the child is a US citizen or otherwise under the protection of the US, this IS none of our business, no matter how tragic it may be. The only argument that I might consider is that we, the US, created the mess in Iraq and now have an obligation to mitigate the human suffering that we unleashed on those people. I have to think about that a little more, though.
I disagree. We can't stop fear, intimidation, murder, genocide throughout the world. We can't be the police of the world. We can't afford it anymore, and it never works when we play International Police. We've tried. It never ever works.
What we CAN do is be aware that at the first opportunity these animals will infiltrate the United States and will try their damndest to cause death and destruction here.
THAT is the reason to destroy them. Not a helpless child on a mountain top.
There are over 100 "American citizens" fighting with ISIS. At some point they will return to the US, and I doubt it will be with good intentions.
ISIS would like nothing better than to have 50-60 thousand US troops on the ground in Iraq. We have always made great targets. They want to provoke us and draw us in. That's the best way they can kill us.
Who put the target on our back?
If our troops were allowed to do their job without having restrictions put on them and not being adequately equipped and told to "play nice", we could kick butt. Since Vietnam our military has been burdened with all kinds of "rules and regulations" on how to "engage" the enemy.
Our military wasn't created to build roads, houses, and find running water but that seems to be part of the "job" - nation building. The military is meant to defend this country and go after known enemies who are a threat to our freedom and country and our military should be given the ability to use full force to do so.
Where are the renowned Iranian Revolutionary Guards? After all, this is the Sunni ISIS in a holy war against the Shiite. Iran is supposed to be the seat of Shiite Islam. They've been involved in every aspect of Iraqi government but when in comes to fighting, Where are they when it matters?
They are sitting back puffing on their Cuban cigars and watching this unfold.
Relax. The world does not expect you Canadians to do anything but act like cowards as usual. Your nation does not have to sweat and fret and examine its values when there is terrible evil in the world that the US might be able to stop.
WOW. Are you also attacking every other country that isn't eager to jump on board the American Going to War Train?? How many times has China got on that train? Countries are tired of being dragged into wars the US starts. Americans are war-tired.
Relax. The world does not expect you Canadians to do anything but act like cowards as usual. Your nation does not have to sweat and fret and examine its values when there is terrible evil in the world that the US might be able to stop.
For real, Canadians always hide when the going gets tough.
We're only suppose to care about the Christians and not, for example, the Yazidis? That doesn't seem very Christian.
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