(March 22, 2016 at 12:10 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Tragic, but hardly surprising. This is what happens when the West continually meddles in a region for generations, leaving it progressively worse every time.
That or our intervention has actually helped and beaten back full-blown armageddon. That's more what I think. We have to constantly push back against the forces of anti-humanism and anti-civilization. If we stop, those forces will build up and mount the biggest attack possible and destroy us. Sorry for the Godwin, but it's kinda like if we hadn't done the whole appeasement thing before WWII and we had actually beaten back Hitler, and people like you would have been like "god damn us for our fucking meddling, that is why Hitler is so angry in the first place, it's our fault, why can't we just leave him alone?" And it's because of these voices, who you can never convince that people may have bad intentions for us for no reason, that things always have to get worse and worse until they cross a threshhold of true existential threat, at which point it is too late to handle without causing hundreds of millions of deaths and entire countries reduced to corpses and rubble.
