It looked a lot better in star wars.

For over 500 years? The US has been around for much less than 300 years. I'm not going to argue with you about who started what. Basically I wish we'd left it all alone myself but, I'm pretty sure ISIS and the other jihadi groups have killed more of the muslim population in the middle east that the US. I can't begin to recount how many times I've heard "suicide bomber blows himself and 80 other people up, 2 US soldiers wounded," or some such over the last decade or so. It's incredible.

Seems like George Lucas can claim prior art maybe.

The US targets militants and might take out civilians in the process. ISIS targets civilians and takes out civilians in the process. When real the real soldiers show up and start killing ISIS members then said ISIS members leave and go home often throwing away their weapons and blending into the population.

It's a war. Getting caught up in a war is bad and usually terminal. Look at all those cities we firebombed in Germany in WWII. Millions of innocent German citizens died just so we could off Hitler. Not to mention what happened to Japan. My own state, Georgia, was on the losing side in the US civil war and had a Union army rape, pillage and burn a swath over 200 miles long that left a scar that lasted generations. General Sherman, the man in command of that army stated "War is hell." This war against ISIS is so tame by comparison that it's ridiculous to compare them. In more recent history the "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia makes an interesting comparison. Yes, as bad as it is it could be much, much worse.

Join or die. But what about all the idiots that travel there to join? Are they just bored?

As much as I'd like my government to stop pissing away Trillions of dollars playing world police, if you feel they're basically the same I'd love it if ISIS moved into your neighborhood and you got your ignorant throat slit. Although I figure a pussy like you would convert quick and join the caliphate.

He missed it entirely. The religious right mostly wants to end abortion and defend prayer in schools. A hideous agenda to the liberals but hardly the same as cutting off the heads of all the atheists. The bat shit crazy motherfuckers in ISIS want to kill everyone who doesn't believe like they do. Even Al Qaeda thinks they're fucking nuts.

He's just going to sue them.

If the US were deliberately targeting civilians the dead would not number in the hundreds or even thousands but in the millions. A lot of the reason for the slow progress against ISIS is that ISIS has gotten so good at hiding among civilian populations and as a result the US and it's allies have to sift through and try to surgically remove them. Mistakes are made and innocents die but if not for the attempt at pinpoint strikes an incredible body count would arise. I disagree with what the US is doing as I've basically become an isolationist in the last couple of decades. The aim is to be proactive so as to prevent a bad situation from becoming a nightmare down the road. Militant Islam is a much bigger threat to Europe than the US and I'd like to see how it plays out against the moral snobbery of the European hypocrisy. I think I'd enjoy watching as the crazies finally force France and other enlightened nations to make hard choices about how to handle an insurgent assault against their freedom. Yes, I'd love to see all those hypocrites respond to charlie hebdo style attacks on a weekly basis. I wonder if they'd still have their outrage against collateral damage.

I kind of agree with you. There is the thought though that at least this way you can allow a kid you don't really trust to drive. If you know he's the kind that the minute he's (or she's) out of your sight they do as they please but you need for them to have access to a car then this might be an option.

Exactly. They can't afford not to do security updates for the pirates because there are so damn many it'll cause problems for all the legit users. I hope they follow through because illegitimate windows installations are holding back expansion of alternative operating systems but I know MS simply can not afford not to do security updates.

About 300 billion.

you should google it. make sure you're alone when you do.

It's the two party shuffle. The only place they differ is in social things like gay marriage, abortion, and that ilk. Things that, while important to little people and helpful in keeping them fighting each other, matter not to the important things like keeping the power and money where it belongs.