Do you have a problem with that m8

Bombing the camps themselves would've been more controversial, you would've been killing prisons but you'd also be giving other prisoners a chance to escape, destroying the infrastructure of the camp, and also sending the message "we know"

The rail lines though I don't see the excuse.

Do you think that Iraqi soldiers would've deserted if ISIL didn't have a formidable fighting force? They've also held their own against the Syrian army and the peshmerga in northern Iraq. This is a very well-trained, well-funded and well equipped military operation. I doubt that ISIL continues fighting in northern Iraq for much longer, US air strikes make things much harder, there's not much more they could possibly gain and its not like they have the support of the locals. They do in Jordan, there they could probably rile up some sort of insurgency. In fact there's already a lot of Jordanians fighting for ISIL, and the organization itself was founded by a Jordanian.

I disagree, I think it's very possible for ISIL to take over nations. They've already carved out a state for themselves between Syria and Iraq. If they decided to focus on Jordan (an idea they have publicly thought about) I have my doubts that the Jordanian military would be able to defend the kingdom on their own. They'd probably need Israel's help, which could be a blessing in disguise for other reasons. Having leverage over Jordan could be the necessary ingredient for finding a solution in the west bank.

Dr. Strangelove

US foreign policy has been morally bankrupt not long after WW2? Nonsense, US foreign policy has always been morally bankrupt. I don't have any delusions about American influence in the world.

It was America that dropped not one, but two atomic bombs, we fire bombed Tokyo. It was America that sat back and watched as the Soviet Union ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of ethnic Germans. We bombed Dresden. We did nothing to aid the Poles during the Warsaw uprising. The US knew all about what was going on in Aushwitz but willingly chose not to bomb either the gas chambers or the railroads.

I'm not going to defend US foreign policy wholesale but you sound ridiculous m8. Sure, we usually only help people who we want to help us back, who doesn't? The US isn't the source of all the world's problems. The US isn't uniquely evil. At worst we are simply amoral. US leaders don't have a psychopathic desire to conquer the world for America, they just care about making money.

In terms of oppressive world powers you could do a lot worse. We aren't like the Soviets who wanted to provoke communist revolutions around the world, we aren't like the Nazis trying to implement some demented racial theory, and we certainly aren't like ISIS who are trying to purge the world of heretics and non-believers. Our foreign policy is simple, Quid Pro Quo, nothing more, nothing less. We don't care if you're a liberal democracy, an oppressive monarchy, a fascist or communist dictatorship, black, white, brown, christian, muslim, hindu, jewish, atheist; as long as you're willing to do business with us and the rest of the "free" world we don't have a problem. That sounds bad, and sometimes that puts us on the wrong side of history, but often (like right now in northern Iraq) we find ourselves on the right side of history. A coincidence, for sure, but it is what it is.

"Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar"

It's never a bad idea to take tax advice from the Jews.

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I can almost guarantee you that if starting tomorrow the US isolated itself, not only would the world not be better off - I'd argue that things would take a sharp turn for the worse. Just because the US does nothing doesn't mean that nothing happens.

What you are proposing is morally bankrupt. Simply because the US can't save everyone doesn't mean that we shouldn't save anyone. The Yazidi shouldn't be wiped out just because no one came to the aid of the Tutsi.

That verse doesn't really support what you're saying. Pretty much all Muslims doubt that he was ever nailed to the cross.

And I don't see the relevance of your comment about the miracles that Jesus allegedly preformed. The fact remains that the bodily resurrection of Christ is integral to Christian theology. You are of course free to believe whatever you want to believe, but realize that what you are saying is extremely heterodox and contradicted by biblical and other Christian materials.

"If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless"

Of course the US doesn't really care about genocides, so what? So what that they have ulterior motives? Never, in the history of humanity, has anyone ever done anything purely for altruistic reasons. There's a clear difference between action and inaction for the Kurds, the Yezidis and other minorities in the region.

The sober reality is that it is logistically impossible for the US to stop every genocide in the world. Because of that there's going to have to be some metric used for justifying US involvement - the metric used is how important the region is strategically to the US. Do you have a better standard?

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No thank you