Some people warned of this "mess"...

[lunatica]

64. It's never simple. Never

I am not defending anything. I'm simply interjecting facts, which, even though they are facts don't help to make things as simple as we'd like them to be. Not everyone is radicalized into being polarized all the time. Sometimes it actually helps to know as many facts as possible to help do something progressive about crises. The more facts we know about the strategy behind military activities the more we can do to stop them. Anyone who prefers to think in terms of 'good' and 'bad' about every single action is forgetting that where we are now historically is entirely because of past actions, dots can be connected all the way back to the Sumerians who were the first recognized civilization of the Cradle of Civilization.

This humanitarian action is very much like all other actions. I think of it as triage. First you stop the bleeding just to keep the patient alive so you can stop the onset of death. To do nothing because sometime in the past triage led to some untimely death for some of the people you were trying to save is not necessarily a good option.

The situation with all the refugees in the world, due to horrific persecution and military atrocities includes the South American children coming to the US. Any decent medical personnel would be deep in triage decisions in any and all of these crises. Is Obama doing the right thing? Who knows. But doing nothing, especially given the very strong possibility that ISIS will do their best to commit terrorist activity against all the countries, including us who they have sworn to destroy is not a real option. In a way it doesn't matter what we do because ISIS will gladly come after us anyway, so why not try to contain them through humanitarian military activity. ISIS will try their best, and maybe succeed in terrorizing every country they deem deserves their wrath. That's another fact that should be given weight while riding the horns of this dilemma. There is no good answer. There are only choices on what to do or not do and hopefully with the knowledge that this will be one more of those historical dots.