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“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.

Go back and read through my posts on this thread. I’m not complaining about “sanctions” against Russia because I have any interest in defending Russia. I’m simply pointing out that the outright theft of assets from another sovereign nation undermines US at least as much as it harms THEM in the long run. And this is particularly baffling when it is being done over something involving two other countries that shouldn’t even be a matter of compelling interest to the U.S. at all (unlike the situation in 1979-1980, for example, when the U.S. froze Iran’s assets after the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized and American citizens taken hostage by a hostile government).

You can watch your rising interest rates as people lose faith in the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency to see my point.