Nothing weird about it - I'm saying "It's silly to refuse to support a butcher that chops up meat."

It's not guaranteed that I'm better read on the Middle East than you, but it's a reasonable expectation. I, too, would love nothing more than to see peace in the middle east. However, I recognize that the Middle East is a region whose Reformation and modernization were halted by the Ottoman Empire and whose politics are tribal. There will be interference in the Middle East by every other power long past the point where the oil no longer matters and realistically speaking, the United States uses far more soft power than any other regime in the history of the region.

Did the Iraq War solve anything? No? How 'bout walking away? No, not that either? Then expect epic-level skullduggery and totalitarian shelling. You know what is a relative term? "Warfare." We will never declare war against a single nation in the Middle East but we will always be ready and waiting to cap a bitch because that's the power structure of Empire.

Particularly in the Middle East.

We agree on one thing: We both desperately WANT there to be an end to extralegal violence and assassinations in support of this, our Land of the Free. Where we differ is that you are still innocent enough to believe someone who says they'll do that.