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Prescribing an intervention when you don’t actually understand the scope of the problem nor the possible adverse effects of such intervention is sheer idiocy and likely to cause even more harm.

I wish our culture wasn’t so keen on “doing something” just for the sake of doing something.

(crossposted on Facebook)

People keep saying “we’ve got to do something” like we’re not already guarding our borders, our ports, our airports and not already aiding our allies.¹

No one is recommended total and complete non-action.²

Maybe the problem is that what we’re already doing is ineffective and we don’t really know what would be effective.³

Maybe have to figure out what would be effective instead of doing even more of the same, only bigger and with more guns and explosives.⁴

Ignoring the fact that France colonized Syria in the first place, it’s almost like France refused to help us break the Middle East, we called them cowards for refusing to sanction an unjust war, and now they’re the ones suffering the consequences and have to clean up our mess.