2. Al Qaeda didn't "blow up office buildings." They stole passenger jets right here in the U.S. and crashed them into the buildings. And the U.S. has done nothing since then but allow a flood of illegal immigrants to come here with little or no vetting at all. You going to take these duplicitous people seriously when they tell you anything?
“1. Al Qaeda wasn’t a sovereign nation with an internationally recognized government. “
Ok, then pick a country, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, etc. It’s not like this is the first time we have used sanctions against another sovereign nation. Why all of the sudden get upset now that it’s Russia?
“2. Al Qaeda didn’t “blow up office buildings.” They stole passenger jets right here in the U.S. and crashed them into the buildings.”
Splitting hairs doesn’t inspire confidence that you actually have some meaningful point to make.
“And the U.S. has done nothing since then but allow a flood of illegal immigrants to come here with little or no vetting at all. You going to take these duplicitous people seriously when they tell you anything?”
No, I don’t accept what they tell me at face value, neither do I take the overly simplistic approach of automatically rejecting any fact that they might attest to. If they say “the sky is blue”, I don’t assume that it must be red now just because they lied about other things, because that would be foolish.
Thinking critically means thinking critically about all information you receive, both from sources that tend to agree with your worldview and sources that tend to disagree, and not just automatically accepting or rejecting sources based on your biases. Making decisions based on your biases is the exact opposite of critical thinking.