Ganos Lao wrote:Novus America wrote:
I wish we could, but we did that in Afganistan. Got us 9-11. We cannot let it burn without getting caught in the flames. Let it burn in we get economic dusruptions, make the refugee crisis ten times worse, and terror attacks.
I cannot in good conscience advocate nuclear carpet bombing. But that would be the only way to make it not a problem.
No good choices.
No, what happened in Afghanistan was America put fuel on the fire (funding the mujahideen) to get yet another one up on the Soviets. 9-11 was simply the Cold War back and forth biting the US on the ass. If America just let it burn in Afghanistan, that country would look rather differently today.
And sadly, yes, nuclear carpet bombing is the only way to fix things. And no one could approve that, no doubt. Instead, we must settle for inept politicians gorging themselves on the misery of the region's inhabitants, all the while getting convenient moments in the spotlight to go "see, see, we need to do this, guys!" when it bites them in the ass (Paris, San Bernardino, etc).
People wonder why the right wing are getting more and more uppity these days, why the migrants are flocking to European countries, etc, etc. It is all part of the self-serving cycle that these insipid morons have created. Orwell once wrote that if you want to imagine the future, imagine a human boot stepping on a human face.
What's going on is that people are literally laying down and eagerly awaiting that boot.
And how will nuclear carpet bombing not bite the West in the ass again?