American oversight of weapons once they're in the field has a spectacular record, you guys! Everybody remember that Soviet invasion of Afghanistan thing? Anyone? Anyone?
Everyone remember those few exceptions to the rule when America supplies weapons to dozens of entities across the world and most of them amazingly don't get turned on us! Oh yeah BTW that ISIS totally wouldn't have existed had we aggressively gotten rid of Assad. There will be no consequences to our inaction!
Separation of church and state, son. You can take your little crusader vision and go back to 1199 with it. Not in my United States, not when you won't put your skin out on the front line with a rifle in hand.
Oh, that's what you did in the military! I heard that 95% of our combat troops are on the front lines with rifles and not in various support and logistical roles. But hey man, that 5%.
I'd support the troops more if I knew most of them didn't play couch jockey like you most likely did. But if you were an infantry grunt that saw combat, COMMENT RESCINDED.
Israel's batting about 4 civilians killed for every 1 militant, so yeah, you pretty much are gleefully in favor of "We had to burn that village to save it" when you justify it, bucko.
The thing that amuses me is that the other side pursues a conscious strategy of putting the kids where they'll be killed, fights with tactics designed to kill those kids, and laughs with glee when their deaths convince normally entirely cynical people like you that Israel's just massacring them out of hate.
Why is this even part of your argument? If you abandoned it on the Syria question it has literally no place here.
Thlayli believes in a feudalistic perspective of the American military that will actively get us involved in endless protracted fighting since his way of depicting them will make it utterly impossible for them to be perceived as anything but conquerors and occupiers and proselytizers and oh yeah his other politics put him with the people who don't want to fund the military and oh yeah he also has advocated us getting into every single war he's ever seen and has directly stated that if the price of that is America going bankrupt he's okay with that because Jesus. (Then austerity spending would be justifiable!)
1. You vote for the party with factions that would also cut defense spending. This isn't an issue with clear party lines anymore, broseidon
2. Right that's right because I advocated an IRAQ-STYLE GROUND WAR in Syria! We lost a lot of troops in Kosovo didn't we
3. We're portrayed as conquerors, occupiers and proselytizers under any policy. The same way that you demonize me for my beliefs, America is demonized for what it does, no matter how it does it. A stirring parallel.
You know, your points are easily swatted away, it's just that you usually manage to outlast the opponent with volume.
