12-20-2016, 12:27 AM
(05-23-2016, 08:38 AM)Anthony Wrote: The cops have a decidedly politically incorrect term that covers the Middle East from an American(ist) perspective all to well: NHI - stands for "No Humans Involved."
If we move against ISIS, we help Iran. If we move against Iran and its interests, especially in Syria, we help ISIS.
So I say let the Russians handle this; and I strongly suspect that Donald Trump feels the same way - all the more reason to support Trump.
ISIS does genocide. Any American acquiescence in genocide is an abomination.
Iran is not the pure evil that it ihas been said to be in the past. The Iranian Navy and the US Navy have co-operated in patrols in the Indian Ocean against pirates. I would have no problem if ISIS leaders made wrong turns in escapes from Mosul, wandered into Iranian territory, and ended up dying while dangling after having been convicted of crimes against (Shia) Islam.
I see Donald Trump as a likely bumbler -- or even worse, a useful idiot.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.