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I see some moral outrage in these comments. To those who find themselves critical of the US here, what would you do differently? Would you simply stop providi
by credit_guy 5y ago
I see some moral outrage in these comments.
To those who find themselves critical of the US here, what would you do differently?
Would you simply stop providing training to African soldiers? Who is then going to fight ISIS and Boko Haram? Or you simply let these groups to their own devices? Or you bring American boots on the ground to fight them?
To those inclined to believe some grand conspiracy theories: it's much simpler than that. The US has limited capabilities. And reading the future is not one of them. You train some soldiers, some might turn bad. You don't train them, thousands of girls get kidnapped and then killed or sold into slavery. There's not perfect solution here.
- mardifoufs 5y agoTrue. And the moral outrage around russia is so stupid too! What would you do to stop ukraine's nazis right? They just have to interfere in their neighbor's business. Your argument might have made more sense if the rise of Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Africa wasn't directly related and reactionary to western imperialism. If it was true that the US cared about extremism, it wouldn't have invaded Iraq in 2003. The invasion is what led to the creation of ISIS and gave a huge credibility boost to Al Qaida in the middle east. But hey they had good intentions so it's different from the russians, right? More foreign interference will solve the problem caused by foreign interference.
- Chris2048 5y agothe invasion was 2003, a couple of years after 9/11. When did Ukrainian Nazis attack the US?
- Tepix 5y agoThe US did not invade Saudi Arabia, did it?
- Chris2048 5y agoNo, neither did it confirm SA was responsible. In any case, SA itself isn't comparable to Russia or Nazi German as a potential threat to the US, relative to networks "of terror" across multiple countries; eg many taliban training camps are/where in Afganistan, not SA.
- n4r9 5y agoI'd be interested to know what actions the US takes other than military training or funding. Groups like ISIS exploit poor and uneducated communities. Investing in infrastructure, jobs,and education sounds like a decent mid- to long-term strategy to strangle their recruitment. This is obviously difficult in countries with a lot of corruption, but those are the same countries where backing militias has unpredictable consequences.
- credit_guy 5y agoYou can start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid