Al Qaeda was actually a lot more reasonable than ISIS. The latter got kicked out of the former for being too radical.
My criticism of the US support of Israel is meant as a critique of the military-industrial complex, who receive a lot of that money, and not as anything against Jewish people. There's been a wave of Trump-inspired violence lately against Jewish cemeteries and community centers. The last thing I want to do is encourage such stupidity
I agree 100%. First in that Al-Qaeda was actually Diet-ISIS, and what rose out of the disastrous War On Terror was a head far bigger than the one we cut off.
The fact that we can come to common ground in this thread is a good thing.
We latch onto these identity politics too much. There is no group I detest right now more than the regressive left. For that, I've been called a "white supremacist" and "Islamophobe".
But the funny thing is I can't stand these new alt-right radicals either. They're a bunch of societal rejects preaching Nazism, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy theories. I am a defender of Israel because they get a bad rap for defending themselves against savages. And for this, I've been called a "Zionist".
You can't be a "white supremacist" and a "Zionist" at the same time. The only thing white supremacists and radical Islamic terrorists converge on are the Jews. You can actually go to Holocaust Denial conferences in Iran where alt-right white nationalists and Muslim terrorist sympathizers drink tea and blame the Jews for everything.
I also hated the Neo-Cons long before there was a regressive left and alt-right. I don't really fit in with any of these people.