US send boots on the ground, Syria... (generation, death, dollar)
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Because this is who we ARE as Americans. We're a military-worshiping culture. Our economy and monetary system are inseparable from our military supremacy.
The U.S. has been at war for 222 years out of our 239 years of existence.
Basically we're Klingons.
Worse. We're the Borg.
And Eisenhower did give the warning.
So we can't say we weren't told.
How does the forum feel about the prospect of American special forces
being put in harms way to protect terrorists ?
Did our soldiers join the military to become human shields protecting
the most disgusting killers on the planet ?
So far I see different human shields.
Allawi muslims - from the same branch of Islam as Assad himself.
The "moderate opposition" ( supported by the US) is caging them and intend to use them as a shield against the airstrikes of the Russians and advancing Syrian Army.
At least that's the information I see on Russian sites.
(Can't check on it, since I don't speak Arabic, sorry)))
You read a US site, you read Al Jazeera and then you read a Russian site and you'd think that 3 different wars are going on over there for 3 different reasons.
propaganda out the wazoo folks.
In the end though the US has no reason to be in the ME...NONE.
What started off as "The hunt for Bin Laden" over a decade ago has morphed into "But we have to give them their freedom" even though none of them asked for it.
Never ceases to amaze me how we relatively rich & powerful Westerners act all surprised and indignant when people do nasty things in a WAR.
For chrissakes we're talking about a WAR here... not just abstract 'forces' on a map. If history is any guide, FAR worse than this- worse than most of us can imagine- is going on right now as we troll the internet.
Do we REALLY expect people to play by the rules while being bombed from 50,000 feet??
Never ceases to amaze me how we relatively rich & powerful Westerners act all surprised and indignant when people do nasty things in a WAR.
For chrissakes we're talking about a WAR here... not just abstract 'forces' on a map. If history is any guide, FAR worse than this- worse than most of us can imagine- is going on right now as we troll the internet.
Do we REALLY expect people to play by the rules while being bombed from 50,000 feet??
heck we don't even play by the rules anymore.
Abu Ghraib for starters. And don't think people at the top didn't know and condone it.
Never ceases to amaze me how we relatively rich & powerful Westerners act all surprised and indignant when people do nasty things in a WAR.
For chrissakes we're talking about a WAR here... not just abstract 'forces' on a map. If history is any guide, FAR worse than this- worse than most of us can imagine- is going on right now as we troll the internet.
Do we REALLY expect people to play by the rules while being bombed from 50,000 feet??
It's not about "nasty things."
It's about "allies" of very questionable nature, that do those nasty things.
Yes, let's make it about me. That way we don't have to talk about the fact that you are quoting, and believing, an OP-ED from a Russian propaganda rag.
We shouldn't be there, period. It makes no difference who is posting the information.
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