tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post2536739548991104540..comments2024-03-27T17:27:49.087-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: Climate Sunday: Something in the WaterVixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-25391483863742002662015-01-26T19:34:05.803-05:002015-01-26T19:34:05.803-05:00And there's the fun "either/or" aspe...And there's the fun "either/or" aspect--as if one can't possibly care about climate change <i>and</i> terrorism, too. When, as I see it, replacing use of fossil fuels gives us less incentive to muck about in Middle Eastern affairs--a big driver in anti-Americanism. I view the two things as complementary.Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-70737781161513551862015-01-26T19:06:44.967-05:002015-01-26T19:06:44.967-05:00And beyond that, can someone explain to me why a c...And beyond that, can someone explain to me why a conflict 8000 miles away somehow represents a threat to the US? How is this supposed to work? We're paying attention - you don't get on a plane in Damascus or Baghdad or Riyadh or Tehran and fly, no matter in how roundabout a fashion, into the US without our having tracked that passport all the way. <br /><br />Are Islamic terror attacks in the US impossible? Of course not. But there's no military action we can take in Iraq or Syria that can have ANY impact on their likelihood - other than to make them more likely. <br /><br />Conflating the Syrian civil war and Islamic sectarian conflict with terror attacks on the US without some explanation of the mechanisms in place is ignorant.<br /><br />And yet, we are getting dragged in to those conflicts, for reasons no better than what this drooling Neanderthal is offering up...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com