America is a sick society

[Eric the Green]

(01-06-2017, 01:49 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: American liberals would never collaborate with ISIS, an entity as undemocratic and illiberal as Stalinism or Nazism. They would easily collaborate with a democratic Japan, Indonesia, or India because of shared values even with great differences of culture; democracy is an internationalist ideal, much as German liberals who survived the Devil's Reich found it easy to collaborate with the British or Americans.

I can imagine American fascists collaborating with Islamofascism because for authoritarian types, culture is not so precious as is the desire to exploit and abuse people. Communism? Commies found that rank-and-file members of the fascist militias (Hlinka Guard in Slovakia, Arrow Cross in Hungary, Iron Guard in Romania, and Ustase in Croatia) would sell out their old bosses for their own gain -- and they would get to keep beating up political opponents such as liberals, conservatives, and democratic socialists as they did for fascist regimes.

Exactly. The Islamic State so-called is the most vile "institution" on the planet today, and needs to be wiped out quickly.

The problem now is, it hasn't been wiped out in time for Trump. His incompetent, criminal and imperialist proposals for dealing with the IS, if carried out, could very likely disrupt the military campaign being assisted by the United States, and encourage support for the IS again.