Congratulations for completely ignoring both of my previous posts! I fear this may be a futile exercise, but alas, I am too masochistic to shy away from a challenge such as this!
If you want to speak to me, speak to me. If not, don't. Whining about your other post mean nothing to me. I am responding ot the post I quoted.
As I clearly stated above, I am NOT advocating military intervention. I am not in fact, advocating any particular policy. I am not so arrogant as to assume that I can prescribe the correct course of action to deal with highly complex foreign policy situations like this!
I fear you may be under the misapprehension that I am some kind of neoconservative or liberal hawk, when the truth is quite different.
No, you are advocating that others don't know of what they speak when they condemn any military action. I fundamentally disagree with this. Especially as in this particular situation I am speaking specifically about an illegal action in a sovereign nation, that the current press secretary said under Trump was illegal and should not be done.
Speaking about older posts, do you perhaps have post from Trump's bombings and military action explaining that those complaining about them might not know about what they speak?
True, although only focusing on the actions of one's own country won't allow one to fully grasp the big picture of any particular event or crisis.
I fully agree that any responsible citizen has a duty to hold their government accountable. however. That is a healthy and necessary part of democracy.
I am not doing that, nor do most leftist. Especially as the majority of leftist issue with intervention is based in our actions against other nations who pose us literally no thread.
Why it comes back to our actions, is that ours are the only ones we are responsible for, that we control.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are both certainly guilty of serious human rights abuses, and I can assure you that I hold no candle for either Bibi or MBS. However, I fail to see how this is relevant in this particular discussion. You seem to be changing the goalposts here a little. First you said that Iran was in Syria to fight ISIS. Then I responded by pointing out that this was incorrect. Now, you bring up American support for other countries that also abuse human rights to show why the decision to bomb was incorrect, when that was never my argument in the first place.
It is relevant because you spoke on looking at it from other nations perspectives. Other peoples. If that is what you want to discuss, then we should consider the hypocrisy of how we don't consider that when doing business with those nations.
Let's be clear. I was specifically talking about the base that was bombed, on the border of a country, where it's primary use is fighting ISIS. Blaming a militia group that Iran claimed they had no responsibility for to bomb a base in a sovereign nation is illegal and not something we should not do. International law says so. If Syria wants to bomb them, that is up to them. We are neither Syria or Iran. We are the United States, and thus are not allowed to do that, outside of very specific reasons, none of which were met here.
