Why? The West doesn't do anything about sub-saharan Africa either, and no-one gives us shit about that. What's so special about the middle-east that it requires our immediate hands-on attention? Oh yeah, that's right, there's no oil in sub-saharan Africa.

Contrary to what people often say, I don't believe isolationalism is the opposite of interventionalism. Non-interventionalism is a much better term and what we should aspire to when it comes to the middle-east.

I agree, it's their problem to solve. But we can and should help by not polarizing. By not further feeding the perception that Islam is a barbaric religion, they have a hard enough problem to solve already without us piling on.

I hate PC shit as much as the next guy, and I honestly feel we should be able to openly debate and even mock any religion without fear for retributions. But you don't discriminate based on race or religion, ever. Being against having 'special rules' for a specific set of people based on their religion is not about being PC, it's about believing in equality.

Of course! Because those are the two countries that have had the most violent interactions with muslims in the middle east. That's the whole reason I'm saying we shouldn't make things worse by singling out Islam with stupid legislative proposals from idiotic presidential candidates!

Yeah, I'm only talking about Americans, not deaths in general. You know, the people that the US gov't under Trump would be protecting by instating a temporary ban on muslims entering the country?

Look, I'm not saying that radical Islam is not a problem, it is and it's 'huge' to borrow one of Trump's favorite words. All I'm saying is that the measures proposed by Trump are ineffective, impractical, un-american and discriminatory.

I absolutely love the US, what it stands for and what it has done for the world, but it's frustrating to see the country fold back onto ultra-conservative populist rhetoric more and more. What made the US great is that it's founding fathers decided not to look backwards to determine how to do things, they looked towards the future and created a society that was ready to face the challenges it was going to face, not the ones that it had faced in the past.

Now, you have a whole slew of presidential candidates that seem to do nothing but look towards the past for solutions, and Trump's "let's make America great again" campaign is a textbook example of this. And they're not even looking at the past solutions, they're only looking at what America looked like on the surface back then (nice Christian people, with normal family values, mom cooking dinner while dad goes to work, 2.3 children, predominantly white, ...). They see America is changing and at the same time "showing signs of sickness" and they're battling the symptoms instead of doing the right thing and addressing the underlying cause.

Bush and his administration didn't keep America safe, they are directly responsible for ISIS, by disenfranchising a large part of the Iraqi population and the entirety of Saddam's army. And now Obama is stuck with the symptoms. Just fighting the symptoms now won't help for very long anymore. It just masks the underlying problem for a short while until it erupts like a ripe boil and takes the country down with it. Please, don't make that mistake and be vocal about people's rights. Be a real conservative and be true to your values, not to some idolized image of the past.