(September 24, 2015 at 6:22 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: If people want to revert to isolationism, then fine. But let's not kid ourselves of the fact that there were thoroughly modern, decent and innocent people in Syria who were not religiously inspired fanatics who genuinely wanted to oust a dictator in order to build a better society who asked for the west to help.
Of course there were. But I was against intervention then, and still am now, because it is not in our national interest. As others have pointed out, when dealing with Muslims, no good American deed goes unpunished, while on the other hand we have historical examples of our assistance rebounding against us at a later date.
I appreciate your point about the people there; there are similar people in all the lands running from Egypt to Iran. But I doubt American intervention in the Middle East will ever be welcomed generally by the folks who live there.
