Of course it's moronic -- not to mention illegal -- for U.S. states to refuse certain refugees. And of course it's moronic for assholes in Dearborn, Mich. -- which has a high population of Muslims -- to tweet: Let’s f--- that place up and send a message to ISIS. We’re coming!
His (valid) point is nearly erased by his (sophomoric) false equivalency
But it's also moronic to equate what happened in Paris (and dozens of other places) with Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The uncomfortable truth here is that there has been one McVeigh and a handful of Christian abortion-clinic bombers in recent times and THOUSANDS of murderous Islamic extremists, who are recruiting like wildfire. And until we are willing to acknowledge this and have an honest discussion about it, we will never be able to calm people's fears -- irrational or otherwise -- and reach a solution that satisfies anyone. To be clear, I am leery of ANYONE who identifies first and foremost BY THEIR FAITH, because if you truly follow most of the main doctrines -- Bible, Quran, Torah -- it will not be pretty ... especially for women, LGBT people and minorities. But even the wackiest and most hateful "Evangelical Christians" don't go around killing people en masse. Although military intervention in the Middle East has not gone well in recent history, you can't help but wonder where we'd be if we'd tried to snuff out ISIS in 2013 before it started spreading like Subway franchises.
The president probably regrets not going it alone, but it's hard to blame him for not doing it without the support of a Congress that already calls him "dictator in chief." Naturally, our nation's "representatives" were too concerned with midterms to stick their necks out one way or the other and we're all paying for it now. Call me Bill Maher all you want -- just please say I favor Ben Affleck -- but the facts speak for themselves.
Maher was right about the 9/11 attackers, too.
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