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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
ISIS is much worse than Mexican drug cartels because of the proportion of their impact that directly affects innocents. That in addition to the fact that cartels have a largely economic agenda; ISIS is a group of religious zealots who sincerely believe they are righteous in everything they do.
I'm aware of the practical difficulties in actually achieving anything, much less knowing the results of any intervention effort one could dream up. But that does not change the fact that, given that the West likely could do something to stop what's happening over there, it's hard to stomach just allowing it to continue.
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My point was more that ISIS is doing things that are happening in other parts of the world as well. So is ISIS the only one worth stopping? Or shouldn't we try and stop them all?
There's also the catch: Intervening in the Middle East in any way is likely to be a spectacular failure barring a permanent intervention of establishing bases over there again. As we just saw, when the West leaves it's just gonna go to #### again. We went to Afghanistan to beat the Taliban, and after the yeas and money wasted... the Taliban is likely to be running it again in some form soon. It was a staggering waste of money. , it always is when the West gets involved.
Until countries from the region are leading the fight over there, nothing will ever change. All that going over there would do is set the steps in motion to establish the next Islamic extremist group.