Like a poor(er) man’s Geraldo Rivera

It does at CNN (at Fox it would simply be a “Fox News Alert!!!”)

FIFY -New name for a new era.

It’s a match in which one opponent clearly dominates the other. Like when The Pats play the Jets

Right but we waited 7-8 years to MAKE it our fight.

Chodefeet of the world unite!

Right but that was what, 8 years after the Nazis began sending people to concentration camps? So we’re cool with 7 years of genocide but 8 is where we draw the line?

....don’t you think that’s kind of the point I’m making. That maybe, for once in our fucking existence as the world’s foremost superpower, we should do something not because it serves our best interest as citizens of the U.S. but because it’s the right thing to do as citizens of the world?

Or maybe people should just learn from fucking history and be able to recognize when it’s OK to break with hardline peacenik thinking.

Man you and I sure do look like assholes for giving a damn about the lives of brown people in a foreign country. Silly us!

I know. Those people are, like, brown and don’t live in our country. We shouldn’t concern ourselves with them.

As a Jewish person, it was my family and friends whose lives were on the line during WWII, so yeah I’m sorry if I react strongly to your indifference to the plight of anti-Assad, anti-ISIS Syrians.

And my point is that we, as a country and as the larger global community, should be able to learn from our mistakes with how we’ve handled atrocities like the Holocaust, Rwanda, etc. and intervene when possible to avoid Genocide.

Your arguments seem to be “Well that wasn’t why we got into WWII” and my point is that it…

Even if that was his point, it doesn’t address my point that America knew what was happening in Europe and did nothing about it until it was convenient for them to.

So let me get this straight, despite the fact that newspapers across the world reported on something, you think it’s totally reasonable to deny that those reports because “Pics or it didn’t happen?”

I’m not saying that American war fatigue during WWII was unreasonable, I’m saying that you need to be better than that…

Exactly my point.

I’m sorry did the U.S. get involved when they learned about the Holocaust or did they wait for Germany and Japan to attack? Pretty sure it’s the latter, which is the point I was trying to make (and apparently not doing a good job of making, so I guess part of that is on me.)

Seriously though, does NOBODY read responses…

Because your point is 100% opinion based and also kind of bullshit. You first said people didn’t know, but they did. Not only did newspapers report on things like Kristallnacht, and the Nuremberg laws, but both Roosevelt and Churchill knew about the concentration camps and gas chambers. They had Jewish people begging…

Why don’t you actually read the rest of the paragraph you quoted in your first cherry-picked line: “Newspapers had reported on Nazi violence against Jews in Germany as early as 1933, as well as the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and the expanded German antisemitic legislation in 1938 and 1939. The nationwide state-sponsored…

Oh no, I agree with you (RE- POTUS needing congressional approval) 100%. I agree that this was done hastily and will have little-to-no effect on what’s happening with Assad. My point was more generally in the vein of, that Burneko comes off as being completely against any kind of military action in Syria and that’s a…