The only pointless war was the second gulf war after 9/11 in which they went to check out some nuclear weapons that didn't even exist, which was the CIA's fault but was pretty much backed by the Bush Administration
The first gulf war was to stop Iraq from invading Kuwait. It's not really pointless to come to the aid of your political ally when they're being threatened by another country. Now we're in a proxy war because rebels in syria want democracy so it's essentially the vietnam war except we're on the side that wants freedom.
When there's people being threatened and human rights violations being committed, it should be the hero's job to intervene and end the conflict.
Yeah, except it wasn't just about nuclear weapons. Saddam was just as bad, if not worse, than Assad. He also used chemical weapons against his own people (the Kurds specifically) and he and the Ba'athists basically ruled Iraq like Assad is right now (in fact, Assad, too, is a Ba'athist). The guy ran show elections twice where he got 99.9% of the vote, and his children would go around torturing, raping and murdering anyone they didn't like. His son Uday alone would drag athletes on the national team who didn't do that well through rocks and then dump them in sewage, kidnap young Iraqi women off the street and rape them, and he would even use the loving iron maiden on people who got on his bad side. I could go on about the Husseins, but you get my point. He and Assad are basically the same.
The reason people are so apprehensive about getting involved in Syria even a little bit is because of not only what happened in Iraq but more recently in Libya. We merely funded rebels there and dropped a few bombs to get Gaddafi out and all of a sudden they're in another civil war with each other and attacking our embassies. It's not because "ew sand-mondays why should I help them 9/11 never forget". It's because it
doesn't loving work.
Not to mention you lauded Matthew for suggesting we're going to upset Russia by going to war in Syria and then you literally prove his point saying:
It's not really pointless to come to the aid of your political ally when they're being threatened by another country.
You don't get to say that one war is bad, then turn around and praise the same war in a different dress. Either you like them both, or you don't.
