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@The_Seldom_Killer
Yeah, sorry, confusion.
Our principles demand intervention as a humanitarian issue. They also demands that we a) afford the rule of law to those we're in conflict with and b) exert control over anyone trying to leave our country to get involved in a conflict we're intervening in.
So yeah, we can abandon our principles of the rule of law and execute ISIS members willy nilly ensuring that we're entrenched in a war for at least six generations with cyclical retributive strikes on both sides and much more death. Or we could abandon our principles of intervention and turn our back on the Middle East while it burns to the ground for more death and no promise that the extreme won't get more extreme and cast their eyes to further shores. Actually even before that they might decide there are some old scores to settle. Bear in mind some of these scores actually go back to the seventh century and definitely involve Europe. A lot.