TerryB wrote:Grandpa's Spells wrote: the local governments should probably manage their own terrorism problems, as they usually do.
But according to you, they shouldn't have terrorism problems since they aren't meddling in the ME, which is why they're after us, according to you.
I can't tell if you're serious or trolling. Middle East terrorism spawns from Middle East issues. Philippine Muslim separatists want an Muslim state where they live. That's the Philippines' problem. It has nothing to do with the Middle East. The Philippines seem to be handling it.
I haven't followed the Mali thing closely and don't know the justification. But there's a civil war and the French have been there militarily since forever.
Are you suggesting we invade Mali and the Philippines now? Americans were taken hostage in Mali, if early reports are right. Or just nuke both?
1) The Nazi's weren't our problem either, but they easily could've become our problem if we hadn't help stop them.
You're not being serious, unless you really think ISIS and the WWII Axis Powers are in the same universe of threat, in which case it's time to change news sources.
2) When Americans are killed overseas, or our ships hijacked, etc., it's our problem.
Which is why we are killing Al Queda, who killed thousands of Americans. ISIS has killed something like 5. I don't know what the threshold is for invasion, but it's not 5. The fear and panic these knuckleheads strike in Americans is fucking embarrassing.
You're saying, we should fight terrorism by staying inside our borders and not pursuing our interests when and where it might make Islamists upset.
I don't care about what Islamists think. We should kill terrorists whenever they act against us, anywhere in the world.
At the same time, we should have foreign policy that minimizes the risk of blowback via terrorism.
When we pursue our interests in ways that involve overthrowing sovereign governments or propping up dictators who we'd never tolerate for ourselves, we should prepare to be fucked with in return, and weigh that into the calculus of what "our interests" are.
One of the downsides of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to form communities, and sometimes those communities are stupid.