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Originally Posted by dead_battery
there have been few groups in history as definitively morally justifiable to murder as isis
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sure BUT its not that easy, it implies open and ground war in several nations, requiring extensive international political support. i mean they literally martyred 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians and then 30 Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, these martyrs were added to our calendars. its not like i have no skin in the game with ISIS.
but the geopolitics of such a war are staggering, and the American experience in Iraq strongly suggests its a local problem that foreign intervention will only exasperate and complicate.
to be sure, if Assad was actually fighting Isis and not just using them as an opportunity to fight against his political opposition and inflict terror on civilian populations to intimidate them into submitting to his unpopular and possibly illegal government then i might be somewhat sympathetic to that situation. Isis are bad dudes.
BUT this war in Syria isn't about Isis at all, i mean, shit, THERE ARE ONLY 20,000 isis militiamen in the region, certainly if any military there actually WANTED to destroy them they would all be dead by now.
Assad likes Isis its a convenient boogieman to scapegoat and blame. Russia likes Isis, it is fabulous propaganda opportunity