Islam in Europe: perception and reality

[abaris]

Of course. Nor do they mean a damned thing to imbeciles who believe the U.S. is the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world, or the most evil regime on the planet. Remember that the debate here of recent began with this little gem of stupidity:

how dare anyone compare us to the likes of ISIS, clearly we are way above that. Disgusting mentality

And from that little sarcastic quote you derrive the conclusion of Heat saying it's the most evil regime on the world? Or a gem of stupidity?

Truth is, the US, since WWII, always acted under what their current administration considered to be in their best interests. That goes for Korea, as well as helping to overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh, being instrumental in overthrowing Allende in Chile and several other instances that backfired royally, because they either were lacking in information or they pissed off people that later came to power. Which, again, could have been seen, given the right level of information.

You're constantly arguing from the being better ivory tower. Not really. It's not hard to be better than ISIL, but if we come to Allende vs Pinochet, the territory gets very blurry. When we come to which regimes are still supported vs the ones being up for regime change, the lines blur even more.

What I can't stand in this kind of discussion, is someone trying to draw conflicts and politics down to a philosophical mattter. To make themselves feel better over something that may be necessary, but always will stay a dirty job, desperately in need of the best information and intel available. Even more so, since it's all about interests. Never motivated by altruistic reasons.

And please, don't repeat WWII. I pointed out before that the US had been attacked before entering the war. It's always the last defense line for anyone trying to justify what's been going on since then.