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[jessaustin]

Yet, I read about atrocities committed every day by ISIS and the US government sits back and does little.

Perhaps this is venturing into political territory, but what "returns" would you expect from an expedition into Syria to engage ISIS?

[dragonwriter → jessaustin]

Yeah, consider that ISIS is a product of the last time the US decided it needed to do more to rearrange the political situation in the region.

[toomuchtodo → dragonwriter]

If ISIS is a product of US foreign policy, than the responsibility falls square on the US government to clean up its mess.

[Karunamon → toomuchtodo]

Only if that's a thing they're capable of doing in the first place. Which, to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure they are. It seems like any time the US military gets involved in something nowadays, the surrounding people end up worse off than when they started.

[jessaustin → Karunamon]

If "nowadays" means "over the last fifty years" then I agree. Amazingly enough, this seems to correspond with the time period over which the military-industrial complex has held a monopoly over the civic and political discourse in USA. I wonder, could we be killing people primarily to support the armaments industry?