08-20-2014, 03:13 PM
So we currently have a "damned if [he] doesn't." If we do intervene on the scale you're suggesting, do you think your team will still be supporting that decision heading towards November 2016?
Are you suggesting something other than long term occupation of Iraq?
You are making a political issue of this and mistakenly interpreting my words as such. It's not political at all. This is a very real danger to the whole Muslim world and in the Middle-East. We see every day how radical Muslim terrorists claim a little more land everyday. We see the government in Afghanistan negotiating with the Taliban for control of areas of that country, e.g. There are many Muslims who believe these groups have the right idea-no allowance for the religious beliefs of others, women treated as slaves (where is the outrage over this?), men told they cannot ever shave or even listen to music, Sharia as the ONLY law...
How do you negotiate with or live alongside people who will kill you and your whole family if you disagree or protest? Or when their whole reason to exist is for the complete annihilation of a race? Or deal with people who murder people of their same religion, but not the same sect?
You can't. As we've seen, they will die for their "beliefs", or, more truthfully, will let underlings die for them.
Are you suggesting something other than long term occupation of Iraq?
You are making a political issue of this and mistakenly interpreting my words as such. It's not political at all. This is a very real danger to the whole Muslim world and in the Middle-East. We see every day how radical Muslim terrorists claim a little more land everyday. We see the government in Afghanistan negotiating with the Taliban for control of areas of that country, e.g. There are many Muslims who believe these groups have the right idea-no allowance for the religious beliefs of others, women treated as slaves (where is the outrage over this?), men told they cannot ever shave or even listen to music, Sharia as the ONLY law...
How do you negotiate with or live alongside people who will kill you and your whole family if you disagree or protest? Or when their whole reason to exist is for the complete annihilation of a race? Or deal with people who murder people of their same religion, but not the same sect?
You can't. As we've seen, they will die for their "beliefs", or, more truthfully, will let underlings die for them.