I&#x27;m saying you&#x27;re <i>vastly</i> underestimating how easy it is to maintain peace with other cultures. I&#x27;m saying what I said, not what you wish I&#x27;d said so you can believe I&#x27;m an evil fool.<p>&gt;Did you do any research to back this or are you writing up some far-fetched, sophist comment since you can&#x27;t counter my points?<p>No, I didn&#x27;t do any research. I took a class on West Asia and North Africa in school. I lived in Iraq for a year.<p>But I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ve done any research, either. You&#x27;re just saying talking points.<p>&gt;Last I checked, the U.S. was still trying to screw with and control much of the Middle East instead of support them.<p>You checked? Let me know what you checked. Where you checked. Who you checked with.<p>&gt;You won&#x27;t see the U.S. truly fight oppression over there<p><i>Truly?</i> Isn&#x27;t there a term for this kind of waffling? &quot;No true scotsman&quot; or something?<p>&gt; So, fighting one isn&#x27;t fighting terrorism so much as fighting one group while putting another into power.<p>That&#x27;s what fighting is. Any fight you do is going to put someone in power. It doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;re fighting terrorism or not; that&#x27;s the whole point of fighting.