I'm fine with cracking down on ISIS propaganda as long as we also crack down on the propaganda of hawks in the West. ISIS is bad, no question there. But the US invasion of Iraq has caused more deaths than the fighting with ISIS. We need to stop pretending that these actions are different. Killing people is killing people even if it's done by militaries at the orders of men in suits.
mc32|10 years ago
It's not an was call. If you do nothing people die. If you try to do something people will die. The idea is to pave a better path to the future.
To be sure, going into Iraq was a fools errand, but it's more difficult to make the call about lets say strife in Africa, or the Caucasus, etc.
Or even today, do we say, forget Syria. Seal it up, let them sort things out and condemn a whole country's population to great suffering?
iamsohungry|10 years ago
> It's not an was call. If you do nothing people die. If you try to do something people will die. The idea is to pave a better path to the future.
This was the propaganda used to excuse invading Iraq, but it's incredibly naive to believe it.
> Or even today, do we say, forget Syria. Seal it up, let them sort things out and condemn a whole country's population to great suffering?
That's exactly what we'd be doing if they weren't sitting in the way of fossil fuel transportation routes.
It's ridiculous to claim that we're doing this to reduce the suffering of people in Syria. The US has supplied Israel with bombs that have been used to kill Syrian civilians for more than half a century, yet suddenly we care about the suffering of Syrians now? Yeah, right.