Couldn't you want the US intervention to persist, now that it has happened, and still have been against said intervention in the first place?
That has been my position, and pretty obviously so.
I had my seven year old son asking me to explain Syrian refugees yesterday. He's a bright lad and he's learned a whole lot of new words. He now knows "asymmetric" means unequal or unbalanced, as well as having no rotation, mirror, or tessellating symmetry. (He now also knows what tessellating means.)
But when it comes down to it I found it difficult to explain but I think I managed it. Henry then told me it was the sort of mess only the Avengers could fix. Then he asked me if Donald Trump was even stupider than Thanos. (It is a running gag in our house that Thanos is pretty dim and lacking in imagination; when he had the most powerful tool in the universe on his hand, the only thing he could think of doing with it was to destroy half of its inhabitants, rather than increasing resources or opening new vistas of exploration or making things better in a non-destructive way. When even a seven-year-old gets this you know there is some hope for the world.)
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Date: 23/1/19 09:36 (UTC)That has been my position, and pretty obviously so.
I had my seven year old son asking me to explain Syrian refugees yesterday. He's a bright lad and he's learned a whole lot of new words. He now knows "asymmetric" means unequal or unbalanced, as well as having no rotation, mirror, or tessellating symmetry. (He now also knows what tessellating means.)
But when it comes down to it I found it difficult to explain but I think I managed it. Henry then told me it was the sort of mess only the Avengers could fix. Then he asked me if Donald Trump was even stupider than Thanos. (It is a running gag in our house that Thanos is pretty dim and lacking in imagination; when he had the most powerful tool in the universe on his hand, the only thing he could think of doing with it was to destroy half of its inhabitants, rather than increasing resources or opening new vistas of exploration or making things better in a non-destructive way. When even a seven-year-old gets this you know there is some hope for the world.)