re: #6 Great White Snark

Heh. just hit the 1%ers. won’t hurt us won’t hurt them either. And if we went in smart, with the locals behind us it would be a lot more like Kuwait than Afghanistan.

BTW please don’t take my now depleted reluctance or objection to the idea of our guys going in as a cowboy or GWBush-esq arrogance we can just up and kick ass. I don’t think like that. I just do have a deep fear of what happens if for any reason Daesh is not rolled back. FWIW One atrocity at a time my reluctance drips away. And the end of them is not in sight.

Also this is still bugging me.

I asked how much you would be willing to see taxes go up to fund something like this. Implicit in that statement was it being *your* taxes, which I should have stated explicitly, I’ll agree. But instead your answer was to raise taxes on other people (regardless of whether or not those other people should be paying more in taxes, which is a separate discussion).

Since you’re not in the military, you wouldn’t pay the cost in that form. At what point are you willing to put your money where your position is? How much? You are asking other people to sacrifice so that you can feel good about how we stopped Daesh. No. That’s not how this should work.

That is a big part of what has gotten us into some of these messes that we’ve made.