International What are the best and worse US military interventions since WW2?

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If we go by Mearsheimer realist view, then NATO using Ukraine to fuck up Russia is not only desirable, but actually the natural outcome of Russia losing its status as a superpower.

Its hard to take seriously people who have one standard for the West and one standard for the rest, like Chomsky.

Chomsky is the worlds’ dumbest smart person. You can predict his views on all most everything.

During his September 2015 Harvard lecture, Chomsky was asked whether Russia’s deployment to Syria was imperialistic. In response, Chomsky repeated the capricious claim that the entire Syrian opposition is either part of ISIS or some variant of al-Qaeda.

As even the most casual observer of the Syrian conflict knows, however, this claim is false. A major contingent of Syria’s rebel forces is not “jihadist” in any sense. Even among those who are Islamist, many support a democratic government, in some form, and are more similar to Hamas than ISIS or al-Qaeda.

Instead of reckoning with these and other realities of the Syrian revolution, Chomsky has tacitly endorsed the logic of the “war on terror,” accepting the view that allying with dictatorships in order to defeat terrorism is perfectly ok.

In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, for instance, Chomsky was asked whether he would support the United States if it joined with the Assad regime, in order to fight against ISIS. While he described Bashar al-Assad as “monstrous” (an admission which makes his conclusion even worse), Chomsky claimed it would be impossible to “fight both [ISIS and the Assad regime] … it’s incoherent.”

This comment is especially stunning since the Assad regime has actively promoted ISIS’s rise.