Reply #28: You possess a much greater intimate knowledge of the future than most mere mortals [View All]

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If the resultant fighting devours many, many lives, will you take responsibility for that, or will those actual deaths be offset by the theoretical deaths had we not intervened? If the ensuing government is a suppressive and/or theocratic one, will you take responsibility for that? If the new government is relatively decent to its people's daily lives but gives away its precious resources and dooms them to future penury, will you take responsibility for that?

It's not that simple, and continually tugging on heartstrings and amplifying any whiff of danger or injustice to justify a clear hand in other people's business crosses the line of decency.

You don't know. I don't know. I DO KNOW THAT FINANCIAL INTERESTS ARE AT PLAY, THOUGH, WHICH YOU COMPLETELY DENY.

My world is a complex, opaque and dangerous one, whereas you seem to inhabit a very obvious, clearly delineated one.

Personally, I feel that you and our President are now completely responsible for the ensuing deaths. You claim AS FACT that he would have exterminated as many as tens of thousands of people upon taking Benghazi; I contend that he would have pushed on quickly to retake the whole country and would have been so paranoid about international scrutiny that he would have stepped very, very lightly. By dint of some kind of moral superiority, you expect recognition of your opinion as unquestionable truth, and feel free to be as shrill as necessary to drown out fiends like me who don't like waging war.

Time will tell. Will you listen to it?