RE: The Third Hundred Years War Has 86 To Go
September 14, 2017 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 1:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What would we expect from dropping the region like a hot potato?
I see comments to the effect that a positive and useful intervention is difficult. I doubt that anyone, anywhere, thinks otherwise. It being difficult is not, in and of itself, an argument against intervention. We have a recent example of what happens when we decide...and largely for reasons of other recent history, not to intervene. What good or improvement came of that? The gassings? The mass migrations and subsequent global humanitarian crisis? The nationalist waves and trumps of the world? The resurgence of a criminal russian state in spite of global sanctions?
No thanks.
I'd rather we keep trying and failing than not try at all. Yes, it requires a commitment to the loss of life, and the vast expenditure of resources. It seems to me that such a commitment is required if we would expect to gain any ground over people wholly committed to what we would intervene in. If those guys are willing to give more than we are, ofc the place will get shittier...regardless of whether we're involved or not.
I see comments to the effect that a positive and useful intervention is difficult. I doubt that anyone, anywhere, thinks otherwise. It being difficult is not, in and of itself, an argument against intervention. We have a recent example of what happens when we decide...and largely for reasons of other recent history, not to intervene. What good or improvement came of that? The gassings? The mass migrations and subsequent global humanitarian crisis? The nationalist waves and trumps of the world? The resurgence of a criminal russian state in spite of global sanctions?
No thanks.
I'd rather we keep trying and failing than not try at all. Yes, it requires a commitment to the loss of life, and the vast expenditure of resources. It seems to me that such a commitment is required if we would expect to gain any ground over people wholly committed to what we would intervene in. If those guys are willing to give more than we are, ofc the place will get shittier...regardless of whether we're involved or not.
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