Recent content by Sander

Don't backseat moderate, thanks. Laxite hasn't been aggressive, or insulting, or anything problematic. Feel free to disagree with him, as many are doing. The world will continue to spin.

You say this like not fixing your own problems is about a lack of desire, rather than a consequence of material circumstances, foreign intervention causing general destabilization, mass death thanks to decades of war, sectarian divisions, other regional international meddling and just generally...

@Someguy37: No ableism. "Cool your autism" is not acceptable. @RangerBoo: Saying "Bethesda fanboys" are stupid is not okay, either.

This forum is here to discuss Fallout 4. This forum is not here to discuss what Bethesda fans think, what old-school Fallout fans think, to start flame wars. It is not here to complain about Bethesda's boards, nor is it okay to call anyone "Bethtards" or the equivalent. Similarly, flaming...

That map is utter garbage for numerous reasons. Historians debunked it over at AskHistorians, and I'll just quote that because it's easiest: There are other issues, too. Ignoring the Reconquista (Christian conquest of the Iberian peninsula), attacks on the Ottoman empire, smaller battles...

No, it won't. The point is that it is not the USA's job to try to solve other countries' problems, in large part because every time they've done so with military force they've made things worse.

Ah, so that's why the West has hit two Doctors Without Borders hospitals in the past months, 90% of people killed by drone strikes were not their targets and the Iraq War killed about a million people. The West generally thinks civilian casualties are perfectly acceptable as long as the...

ISIS actually has strategic documents explaining what they're doing, and it boils down to drawing the West into inflicting ever more violence on the Middle East and European Muslims to create a black-and-white world, with ISIS seen as the only viable option to those who are suffering from the...

"Refugees afforded every hospitality" faced with Islamophobia, poverty and other structural problems. That doesn't excuse the bombings or other acts of terror, but these people face real problems.

Supporting one group even without boots on the ground is still a military intervention, specifically of the kind that helped prop up a variety of dictatorial regimes in South and Middle America over the past half-century, and of the kind that led to the US supporting what would later turn into...

You're still asking the West to militarily intervene in a civil war. Yes, the rebels wanted help -- of course they want help, they're rebelling -- and Assad was a murderous dictator. At the same time, many of those rebel groups were themselves problematic, and the rebellion itself was splintered...

But this is the moral absolution of everyone involved. Every time anyone talks of anything the West has done, or the USA has done, your response is "yeah well other people would do the same thing." Whether they would or not if they were in the same position is an unanswerable counterfactual. The...

And al Qaeda, as an organization, has always had as its mission to remove foreign powers from what they perceive as Muslim countries. In practice, this has always been the West and local dictators, many of whom were propped up by the West. Al Qaeda as an organization was founded after the...

No one's "completely blaming others", we're pointing out that the West is culpable or even directly responsible for a lot of destruction and violence in the region, and that that violence in turn creates a breeding ground for further violence by taking away people's perspectives, people's normal...

These folks are targeting Western countries specifically because their neighbors have been killed, their homes destroyed, their country's institutions demolished by Western interventions. Al Qaeda's main mission was to push the West out of (what they saw as) Muslim countries. ISIS plays on...