Sorry friend. It was all done in OUR name. That would be the US. Both Democrats and Republicans signed off on that Libyan action(see Operation Zero Footprint). And the continuing Syrian action. That destabilization(Arab Spring) that you talked about started in Egypt from rising food prices. A result of the US exporting it’s inflation to those countries whose monetary systems were pegged to the dollar. A perfect storm for Islamist to take advantage of. As for wiping IS from the face of the earth, ya we should, being we helped create them. And supply them.(See Republican McCain) We seem to be good at ‘pasteing’ people when we want to, it’s just that our follow-up lacks lately-—Iraq anyone. As for American moral superiority, go sell that to the Kurds. And the multitude of Christians being slaughtered throughout North Africa and the ME with nary a peep from ANY of our politicians. By the way, when I refer to morals, I’m NOT referring to individual Americans, but to our representatives that sit in that sh-t hole known as DC. Both Dims and especially Repubs. But then again WE THE PEOPLE are the reason they are there. Some of whom have been reelected multiple times. As for posting on DU, well it would be a different plantation......
Send ‘em all to McCain and his fat daughter’s house.
Very well, our points of view seem to be aligning. I have a difficult time surrendering ‘me’ and like-minded conservatives to the likes an ‘our’ when ‘our’ includes the likes of these self-centered pigs who wallow in dirty money and corrupt-laden power in the DC Beltway trough. The betrayal of the GOPe really did us all in, that’s for sure. I will concede only in as much as it is difficult, outside of this forum, to distinguish conservative, rightfully rebellious WE from the collective US WE. In FR land I feel as distant from dominant american establishments; media, uniparty, et al, as Pluto is from the sun. Convincing anyone that obama acted in our interest and for the good of the country, similar to Bush’s motives in Afghanistan and Iraq (ostensibly) would be a never-ending firefight and I don’t think that’s your take but, from a purely legal perspective, we do bear a moral obligation to clean up the mess. That mess starts with the destruction of ISIS and compelling like-minded muslim oil states, repleat with financial resources, to come to the aid of their spiritual brothers. We must also save Europe (for the third time) from its own destruction - bt that’s probably an idealistic pipe dream. Later.