re: "America's new war in Syria is a total disaster"

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This is what boggles my mind about ISIS. They had taken large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. They were generating tons of $. Everybody was leaving them alone and they appeared to be well on their way to establishing a caliphate - which was their stated goal.

Then they start beheading people (which would seem to be an effort to goad us in to going to war with them). We're just going to immediately eliminate their revenue streams (oil) and put them in a position of defending their territory (which is hard b/c they can't blend in with population like they do when on offensive).

It makes no sense.

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Propaganda usually doesn't.

What boggles my mind is that after 13 years, human beings - with what I assume are functioning brains - still buy into this ever-contradictory and increasingly implausible fairy tale.