Quote:Since you obviously think arming the rebels was the wrong move, what would you have done?

 

NOTHING! We have no business being the Middle-East morality police or nation-shapers. NONE. No obligation. There are two allies that matter over there, and they both have (relatively) stable, secular governments. Egypt and Israel. Nobody else matters unless they are impacting OURS or THEIR sovereignty in the form of diplomatically declared war. None of it is worth sinking trillions of dollars and American lives. Just because you see a propagandized video or image of a child being killed is not a reason to invest our soldiers lives or military dollars into it. You can have humanitarian missions, offer safe zones with your allies, even take SOME refugees, but we should not be overthrowing any governments or arming any rebels over there. It shouldn't be happening.

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