I can see both sides. The very reason we have the rise of things like ISIS is because of ill thought out and potentially criminal military intervention.
The origins of modern Islamic extremism are in the CIA/ISI interventions in Afghan/Russian war and their attempts to create an anti-communist form of the religion. Extreme puritanism combined with militarism was the result.
Once you create a monster it is hard to get rid of it and history is full of these kind of lessons if only people would learn them.
That said sometimes there is no choice but to go to war good example being WW II - most of what has happened since then though is highly questionable.
I wouldn't blame the people in the military though they are just pawns like the rest of us.
It is the people in charge and the corporations that own them that decide what actually happens.
ISIS and other radical Islamic Jihadist groups which have popped up in the middle east are the direct result of the CIA'S (and other U.S. agencies) organizing, funding, training, and equipping in order to prop up the U.S. economy and further this nation's federal government's diabolical plans. As sure as 9/11 was an inside job and not the actions of Osama Bin Laden and that the U.S.'s unlawful invasion of Iraq & Afghanistan for the sole express purpose of preventing Iraq's sale of its oil in something other than U.S. Dollars and Afghanistan specifically to create a CIA backed heroin connection. Also, Libya was destabilized and Its Ruler killed because He sought to come off the PetroDollar.
Please know that this is NOT a light thing for Me to say. I was an Intelligence Specialist aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga CV-60 (now decommissioned) during it's Mediterranean-Indian Ocean Cruise 1985-1986. During that time, from March 23-31, 1986, We sat near the Gulf of Sidra, crossed the Line of Death and engaged the Libyan military forces. Approximately 25 years and 4 months later Libya's Leader was murder in the streets by U.S. backed rebels.
@luminousvisions Lol I'm a coward just because I don't have a one dimensional opinion like you? Are you like 12 or something? Must try harder.
Seriously.. how old are you?
You're one of the most antagonistic people I've come across on Steemit.
You appear to be incapable of disagreeing without being disagreeable.
I'll let you pick a moderator for the debate. Preferably someone who is at least more capable of objectivity than yourself. Judging by your responses, that could be pretty much anyone here.
No my arguments are scattered above and I'm not going to repeat them when YOU are the one who began to insult.
This isn't stopped being a debate or discussion with you. This is now just a mud slinging contest. Don't go away angry. Just go away.
EDIT: Actually -- I just changed my mind -- you want to have a debate sometime, you just name the time and place. We can record and post for the rest of the Steemit community to see.
That way you can call me a coward to my face and whatever other insults you'd like to throw in lieu of objective arguments.
Rule by force is the problem, that and we are a nation of little bitches too scared to stand up for what is right.
Why isn't hitlery in jail, because the ag is more scared of her than of us.
The fibies leader said as much, I don't want to end up mysteriously dead.
The programming runs deep.