Q: Why Did an American Journalist Get His Head Cut Off?

[Chan790]

194. That's a badly-flawed "what-if chain" argument.

If I'd gotten up at 8:57am yesterday rather than 9am, I'd have been traveling to work 3 minutes earlier and would have arrived to work earlier. Since I'm self-employed and only work until the day's work is done, I'd have finished 3 minutes earlier. I'd have arrived at the doctor's office three minutes earlier and she'd have finished my physical 3 minutes earlier, meaning she would have taken her lunch 3 minutes earlier which would have put her in line at the convenience store when the man choked to death rather than walking into the store 2 minutes after he choked to death. Why did I kill that man!?

I hope you see that event-chain is as nebulous and tenuous as the blame you wish to assert. Blaming Bush for Foley's death is ridiculous on a level like blaming butterflies for hurricanes and tsunamis. I may hate the guy, but I don't blame him for unforeseeable events of past actions...to do so is absurd. When the consequences you're trying to shift blame on are the death of a human being...it's deeply offensive.

One person and only one person bears responsibility for James Foley's death. The asshole who cut off his head.

Likewise, the only people responsible for the Iraqi genocide is IS. They did not need Bush...this is not the new issue you're ascribing it to be. Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have been having this fight consistently and with only brief pauses since before the Crusades. IS didn't need GWB or American Imperialism as an excuse for anything they have done. Despite your desires to assert otherwise, George Walker Bush was not a factor in the death of James Foley nor does he share in the blame. You might as well blame Gavrilo Princip instead...the entire military history of the world and the region since 1914 ultimately all ties back to him shooting Archduke Ferdinand and Princess Sophie.