I am writing this post to show the complete fallacy of the latest ridiculous excuse for the inexcusable actions of a certain orange colored fellow that I refuse (for now) to dignify by name.
The excuse comes in the form of an analogy. "It is not trespassing to go on your neighbor's yard to pick up your dog's poop." The idea is that since you are "helping" your neighbor fix a problem you caused, then it's okay. Well no. It's not okay. It's only okay as long as your neighbor says it's okay. Now most neighbors, being neighborly people, don't mind you going on their yard to pick up dog poop. In fact most neighbors, being neighborly, don't mind you taking brief detours on their property for a variety of reasons. Say if your dog needs to pee? Most neighbors, being neighborly, don't mind you letting your dog on their year to pee. But say if you and your neighbor have bad relations? If you are coming on his yard to get up dog poop and he says "Get the hell off my yard" and you say "But I'm just getting up dog poop. I'm being helpful" and he says "I don't care. Get off my yard." Guess what you have a legal and moral obligation to do? Get off his yard!
Now, why might a neighbor rather you just stay off his yard even if it means you don't clean up your own mess? Could be a variety of reasons. Maybe the last time you pick up poop off of a neighbors yard, you made a bigger mess than if you had just let the rain take care of the poop. Maybe he has a dog too and last time his dog ran at you and growled and in self defense you shot and killed his dog, so he'd rather you just stay the hell away. Maybe he's already paid his son to go out there and get up all the dog poop and you're just messing up his chance to teach his son responsibility by doing his son's job for him. Maybe the last time you, or someone else, came on his yard to "pick up dog poop", you, or that other person, used it as an opportunity to be a peeping Tom and look at his wife of daughter through her bedroom window. Or...maybe your neighbor is just an ass. But he has a right to be an ass, especially on his own property.
So no. The U.S. does not have a right to go into Syria without Syria's permission to "pick up the poop" of ISIS. This is especially true since Syria, Russia and Iran already had ISIS on the run before Trump took office. All we have to do is to stay the hell out of Syria, help the Iraqis fight ISIS in Iraq...for as long as Iraq gives us permission, offer assistance to Egypt and Libya in fighting ISIS if they want it, quit freaking funding rebel groups that have common cause with ISIS, which includes all rebel groups in Syria because they all want Assad gone and that, by definition, is a "common cause", and yes that includes the Kurds, and the problem will go away just like dog poop eventually gets taken care of by the rain and flies and sun and whatever else helps disintegrate dog poop.
Really folks, this ain't rocket science. This is libertarianism 101. You do not have the right to "help" someone who doesn't want your help even if you caused the problem. Somebody had a GIF of Uncle Sam carrying a cardboard cut out labeled "ISIS", standing it in front of Syria, shooting up Syria, then carrying away the undamaged cardboard cutout. I can't find it but it's appropriate for this thread.
Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty
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