Colonel Hogan
Madness
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- Sep 16, 2005
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When you commit genocide on your own people, the answer is yes! It's not such a reach. Not unless you're intentionally trying to turn a blind eye to the genocide so as to push "your" version of the truth.
The NAZI's killed 11 million civilians, many of them German citizens, in WWII. No one knows how many Russians Stalin's regime killed, so the numbers range from 3 million to 60 million. Is it really stabbing a monster in the back when you realize he's a bigger monster than the one you've just defeated?
Estimates of the number of Syrians killed by the Assad regime are around 400,000, according to the UN. Not as bloody as Hitler or Stalin, but still, genocide is genocide, no matter how hard you try to blame it all on the U.S.
Do I wish the U.S. had stayed out of the Middle East? Yes! If the Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims want to kill each other off, it's tempting to let them. But the international community will blame us for not preventing the genocide. Just like they did when we didn't intervene (or intervened too late) in the Pol Pot genocide in Cambodia, the tribal genocide in Rwanda and Burundi, the ethnic cleansing in Darfur and Bosnia, etc. If we do nothing, its our fault for not assuming the role of policeman to the world. But if we intervene, it's still our fault for interfering in political or religious matters that are none of our business.
It's a no-win situation that second-guessers like you sit in your ivory towers passing judgment on. That's because you won't get off your ass and do anything about it yourself, BUT you don't want anyone else taking action either. After all, if the problems of the world were ever to be resolved, you would no longer have a target for your hostilities. And you need someone to hate.
This. ^^^^