That's cool, man. You're free to have all the uninformed beliefs you want. This is America* and, if there's one thing I have an opinion on, it's that everyone is free to believe what they want. *For all intents and purposes, I will call this forum "America"
Indeed. I don't need "all" the information, because we never have "all" the information on anything (outside of human-created systems like math, language, etc). I need enough information to have an opinion and I don't currently have that regarding the air strikes. I'm sure there will be quite a bit of analysis on this in the coming months and in the aftermath and I'll read those and see if I end up with an opinion. I may not. Sometimes, even after the fact, it's not clear whether an action was good or bad. That's life.
Okay I get it... You like to talk about things that have already happened, then gather the information to make the Historian type response. Your opinion will have no benefit, good or bad, on the pressing matter because you don't want to feel accountable for the action or "be wrong". Sounds about right?
Opinions "can be" based on something... Your political stance and how this may effect that stance, concerns with the hypothetical murder of innocent people, or Is the government doing their "due diligence"? They are all something. All somethings that you can voice publicly without sounding like an idiot. Just because you "don't have all the answers" doesn't mean you can't voice those opinions publicly and even be outspoken to your political party of those very same concerns.
Well, you expressed an uninformed opinion about Burger King and taxes. You suggested they were evading taxes (which is a crime), even. You express such opinions quite often. So excuse me for seeing through your dodge this time. I'll say it. I'm not for the bombing of Syria and Iraq. Not for arming either side. It's a civil war and it's not anything we have to do with.
I wrote to Senator Wyden about this not long ago. Seems like a Civil war to me, maybe we should sit this out, let the Sunnis and Shia sort this out for a while. It didn't do any good, he voted to arm the ones in Syria. I also told him I didn't hear anyone describe what victory was. Didn't do any good. I think we are in deep shit.
Wasting money we don't have to kill people who only hate us because we are killing them. The USA is like that dude at the club with his shirt off, after already kicking someone's ass yelling "who else wanna fuck with Hollywood court!?"
On the bright side, I'm sure all the women and children we explode will make for great martyrs for the war in *insert brown country* 5 years from now
I was using the word "evading" in its literal sense, not its legalistic sense. If you prefer tax "avoidance," as the Wikipedia article you quoted used, that's fine by me. What are you claiming I'm dodging? I wasn't for or against Bush's war at the time and I'm not for or against Obama's war now. Doesn't seem partisan to me. I understand that you're just venting now. You screamed at me about "blindly" endorsing Obama's air strikes, then you felt stupid when it turned out that I wasn't endorsing them and you're now dealing with feeling stupid by going on the offensive. It's textbook.
If you're not against it, you're for it. That's sort of the default position since we're bombing in Syria and Iraq now. I get it. If the war goes well, you're for it. What's wrong with tax avoidance. I plan so I can avoid paying taxes, like everyone else. That is, if there's a tax break I'm eligible for, I claim it.
