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I think we're reading the roughly the same page, just from different angles.

I'm not opposed to America giving ISIS the old 'pew pew'. I'm not opposed to anyone taking down ISIS. I agree that the US is acting with strategic and/then business interests at heart. Having said that, neither the Chinese nor the Russians would exactly welcome the Middle East being blown to smithereens and I feel that if the US hadn't have acted, the Chinese/Russians would have stepped in eventually. It's just lucky for them that the US is first in.

I do not agree that this is a benevolent, bully bashing gesture in the slightest. The Yazidis were pleading for US assistance over six weeks ago. If the US is to save the Yazidis then it's going to be incidental - with a thumbs up and big grin for PR purposes. As I mentioned with CAR, Sri Lanka, Srebrenica etc etc etc. America doesn't prevent genocide for the sake of preventing genocide.

<blockquote data-quote="Bachelors Hall" data-source="post: 2490693" data-attributes="member: 66017">I think we&#039;re reading the roughly the same page, just from different angles.I&#039;m not opposed to America giving ISIS the old &#039;pew pew&#039;. I&#039;m not opposed to anyone taking down ISIS. I agree that the US is acting with strategic and/then business interests at heart. Having said that, neither the Chinese nor the Russians would exactly welcome the Middle East being blown to smithereens and I feel that if the US hadn&#039;t have acted, the Chinese/Russians would have stepped in eventually. It&#039;s just lucky for them that the US is first in. I do not agree that this is a benevolent, bully bashing gesture in the slightest. The Yazidis were pleading for US assistance over six weeks ago. If the US is to save the Yazidis then it&#039;s going to be incidental - with a thumbs up and big grin for PR purposes. As I mentioned with CAR, Sri Lanka, Srebrenica etc etc etc. America doesn&#039;t prevent genocide for the sake of preventing genocide.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bachelors Hall, post: 2490693, member: 66017"] I think we're reading the roughly the same page, just from different angles. I'm not opposed to America giving ISIS the old 'pew pew'. I'm not opposed to anyone taking down ISIS. I agree that the US is acting with strategic and/then business interests at heart. Having said that, neither the Chinese nor the Russians would exactly welcome the Middle East being blown to smithereens and I feel that if the US hadn't have acted, the Chinese/Russians would have stepped in eventually. It's just lucky for them that the US is first in. I do not agree that this is a benevolent, bully bashing gesture in the slightest. The Yazidis were pleading for US assistance over six weeks ago. If the US is to save the Yazidis then it's going to be incidental - with a thumbs up and big grin for PR purposes. As I mentioned with CAR, Sri Lanka, Srebrenica etc etc etc. America doesn't prevent genocide for the sake of preventing genocide. [/QUOTE]

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