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US (wholly avoidable) intervention in Iraq led to the rise of ISIS. The world is not safer when you go around wacking hornets nests.

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And how's that the fault of the military? Go after Rumsfeld and his falsification of intelligence if you have to, the people who gave their lives, and those who continue to put themselves in harm's way for your right to shame them on HN, are not at fault

A military invasion is performed by the military. No one here is blaming the servicemembers.

But you are. The "military" follows the orders of the executive branch. Period.

Employees at Google are protesting the military's efforts to advance itself, while their real beef is with the executive branch.

Google employees didn’t want to be complicit with certain things the government was going use their work for. They stood up for what they believed in.

If you are asked to say, make poison gas to exterminate the “enemies of the state”, you can always say: “Take it up with the executive branch.” I guess. When faced with the same situation, others may choose to a different response.

Is isis such a big deal in the grand scheme of things.. ?

What lead to ISIS was the US pulling out too soon, leaving a huge power gap that the Iraqi government could not fill. Nation building takes decades. Germany and Japan were not rebuilt overnight to become the US' top allies after WWII: they were fully occupied by Allied forces for at least a generation before control was handed back to their respective local governments.

“The reason he bled to death is because they didn’t get him medical attention.”

“But you shot him!”

Yes, because he was pointing a gun at someone else.

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