Quote (thundercock @ Sep 24 2014 09:18pm)
It's our moral obligation to police the world just like it's our moral obligation to give to charity. I don't think you understand what the word "indiscriminate" means given that we're targeting very small areas right now. That is the plan that the government has gone with at the moment. The fact that we're working with other Arab countries on this is a good thing.
So are we the only moral country in the world? No one has ever said that the problems of the world shouldn't be addressed, but why is it our moral obligation for the past 70 years, even more so now? Where is the rest of the world? Why is it so ridiculous to sit back and let someone else take the reins and support them? God forbid that useless continent of Europe actually steps their game up sometime within this century.
It doesn't matter how many things we may have fucked up, like the Iraq war or anything before it, the US has stabilized the world for decades, it deserves a break.
You can see how much the entire Middle East hates ISIS. Even if no one from outside the Arab world intervened, at some point Arab nations would unite to deal with threat. If they didn't, then they would slowly topple. They know this, and they do not want this. The only reason they haven't done anything is because the Western world has been doing the heavy lifting for them for decades.
Even if this threat ends, it will not end the regional dispute between different factions of Islam. It will be hard to weed this problem out, but outsiders such us Westerners would most likely be the last ones to be able to change that. That's a problem that has to be solved internally.