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In reply to the discussion: I bleed red. I support intervention in Syria. [View all]IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Yes, there are a bunch of idiots who just like to jump all over people - the "go join the military" morons (apparently even Obama can't have an opinion on military use unless he joins, per these nitwits, who seem to forget that the military is under the control of the civilians, but whatever) and the "you must love Bush" (wtf?) and the "how dare you support murder" (seriously?) but honest to pete -
ENOUGH WITH THE PERSONAL INSULTS, CALI.
"I'm actually not surprised to see this level of ignorance from you." <== Yeah, that is a personal insult.
I'm not going to alert on it. We've known each other for YEARS. We've disagreed sometimes, agreed sometimes, and I really don't care if you don't like my opinion, because It. Is. My. Opinion.
I've known about the shit in Syria for YEARS; my kids went to school with other kids who have relatives there, the last school my kids were at had systems in place for dealing with the kids who had personally witnessed the violence because THEY LIVED THROUGH IT, and my current daycare provider immigrated from Syria, and I trust his analysis of the situation a lot more than I trust yours.
Yes, maybe if someone took Hitler out, we would have ended up with a worse dictator. I don't know that. I know that Assad has been killing people in the THOUSANDS for several years now. I don't like it, and I want it to stop.
That doesn't mean I want a caliphate, and it doesn't mean I support "moral" law (aka Sharia). It means I want people to quit dying - especially CHILDREN - and since the victims actually need someone to save them, I support using my military forces to do it. I don't want to prop up a bad regime afterward; I want to go in, help out, and get out.
Have a different opinion? Think their lives aren't as valuable as yours, or that the situation in the Middle East will simply destabilize, or that the next bad guy there is going to be worse?
You have a right to that opinion. I HAVE A RIGHT TO MINE.
And you personally insulting me - well, that isn't changing it. It is making me think you are a rude, obnoxious insulting person who I shouldn't trust.
Telling me I was wrong about this - that was okay. "I'm actually not surprised to see this level of ignorance from you" -- well, kindly escort yourself to the near mirror, and take a good, hard look.
It isn't "pride" that makes me hold this opinion. It is freaking HORROR. And if you can't tell the difference, well, your judgment is beyond suspect, because you have the ability to take an old friend who you could discuss twenty billion things with, disagree about a lot of them, and still talk, into someone who is about ready to make you the second person on her ignore list because *passion* is one thing, but personal insults ---