“... And pal, my scenario is way the hell more likely than yours.”
Go tell that to the surviving families of the 3000 who perished on September 11, 2001. Nobody believed that “scenario likely” either - until it happened.
Really? Because I am not only one of those surviving family members, but also a survivor and rescue/recovery worker. Had we not funded the Mujhadeen and armed and trained what became AQ, there wouldn’t have been a 9/11. I went to over 100 funerals after 9/11 and many more for friends and kids of friends who came back in boxes from our fuck up in Iraq. So you can tell me to “go piss up a rope” a million times, I don’t give a shit. But I sure as hell don’t want my Marine or his buddies, laying dead in a Syrian city to make it easier on ISIS.