I can remember when people of good will cared about stuff like innocent people being beheaded, dispossessed and trampled on. Some still do but not Kos, or it would appear, Kossacks.
We've spent billions arming our Middle East allies to the teeth. They are the ones directly threatened by Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL. Not us.
So why is it us that have to do the fighting? It's their backyard, but they can watch comfortably as the United States bleeds trillions more to bail them out? Nice gig, if you can get it.
Let those directly threatened by Islamic State put their skin in the game.
Not worth hating. They are unhinged and out of touch, hanging on to their self-important theories about things that don't conform to reality.
ReplyDeleteBad as Western privilege is for humanity, their version of social justice would bring a living hell. Thankfully, most people see what it is like elsewhere and reject their notions of what causes evil.
Does anyone on his own site even pay attention to anything he says? Not surprising to see him take this stand, since he's basically a Ron Paul type who would have stayed a Republican if there wasn't more money in building a Democratic site back in the early days of the George W. Bush administration.
ReplyDeleteMarkos has, however, managed to pull off the somewhat admirable trick of surrounding himself with countless lunatics, while hosting a wild hate site, and yet somehow still seeming respectable to some (though I notice his teevee appearances are somewhere between negative and zero anymore), so I guess there's at least that...