So what it is speaking to me is
It seems there is a war against Radical religious terrorists which is stateless and more regional, and stopping dictators.
It seems there is a war against Radical religious terrorists which is stateless and more regional, and stopping dictators.
If the US cared about stopping "dictators", why are there so many dictators allies of the US?
Unfortunately the world is a messy place — ideological purity gets you no where.
While I also disagree with the parent, these facts are not in evidence.
The hypocrisy is clear, but hypocrisy is not sufficient to prove that one does not care at all.
What is pretty clear is that the USA takes a strategic and occasionally very partisan view when making their choices of alliances as well as their use of power and force. I'm not sure they are very unique in this respect though.
Countries which support the Al-Nusra front, which was affiliated to Al-Qaeda, which masterminded 9/11 an event which 90% of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia or other gulf countries and 0 from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Iran.
The concept of righteous crusades has been around forever and it's stunning that it still works.