#I use ‘uncharitable’ not as a sneer but like. objectively

[rametarin]

I have some minor complaints about this

Firstly, the vast majority of the COVID deaths in the US were coming from people over the age of 60. And most of those, people in their 80s. And the obese. If you were old AND have pulmonary/respiratory problems, there's not really a whole lot that could be done to save you. That 3,000 deaths a day figure is misleading and uncharitable.

Secondly, the damage to infrastructure and personnel from targeted malicious explosions is worse and more intelligent and dynamic than dealing with a virus, and allowed to propagate on its own, Islamo-fascism does just that.

Thirdly, you can bomb mafioso estates and suddenly end targeted attacks and guerilla warfare for generations. As proof, I point to the fact there's no Nazi Germany anymore. You can't make viruses extinct so easily. Whatever ones feelings on Islamo-fundamentalist terror waging guerilla wars on southeast Asia and the rest of the Middle East, it is objectively true global jyhad was and still very much is a thing, and was not going away.

9/11 was not devastating solely because it killed a few thousand people and then the debris caused health issues. 9/11 was a problem because it was an organized terrorist attack against a structure that you aren't supposed to be big enough to antagonize like this without your entire culture and way of life vaporizing. It's one thing for a religious organization to sweep in and take over a sleepy little hamlet somewhere and subjugate the entire population to their religious authorities and organizational tyranny. It's another to do it to a society that has an organized military force and the right and means to turn your castle to glass and your very identity into a memory.

If it helps, imagine if an American megachurch decided to.. oh. I don't know.. carry out January 6th, but this time actually use weapons and actually had a ready made religious imperative and structure, rather than a flash mob, with the ACTUAL intent on taking over the country in their name of their god, culture and structure and social order. That's what the world was facing, at the time. A dirt poor initiative and will and determinism to impose their way of life and morals and the language of Islam on all that were not.

The US government can't do anything about people getting old, and has a very difficult time keeping them from getting obese if they're dead set on making themselves obese. It can, however, solve a problem of insurgency with a few well placed explosives and end ambitions of things like ISIS/ISIL from seizing and holding power for long.

People that have determined they want to kill you in an organized way because you won't carry their beliefs in your heart, subjugate your systems of government and supplant them with their own parallel governments based on their religious authorities, are a different enemy altogether from an illness you get by not social distancing and washing your hands. Which may or may not have been a targeted bio-terrorism weapon designed from the start to be a source of economic destruction. And just because you aren't seeing the deaths at home from Islamic religious terrorism quite the way it's happening across Asia and Africa, doesn't mean it isn't taking place and didn't deserve confronting.

Also that sneer towards oil companies; You know who consume petroleum products? People. You know who consume a lot of petroleum products? Sick people, old people. They need more things to continue existing. That means they need other people to provide those things. That means if there's a global pandemic, oil companies see to lose more in sales by loss of customers than they'd gain by whatever ventures they profitted from during Iraq and Afghanistan. This meme about how US oil companies just went in and slurped up or monopolized Iraqi oil is factually wrong. For some reason this meme about dirty capitalists and oil (which Soviet and then Russian chemical energy moguls seem to avoid stigma from, despite being the next biggest sources for these fuels) seems to suggest they're smart enough to take over and steal other peoples resources but somehow not intelligent enough to know pandemic deaths mean greater lost profits than the benefits of an illegal war. Suggesting mindless evil, solely by how much that doesn't make sense.

9/11 makes less sense if you think the tragic thing about it was just the thousands of people that died from the initial attack and ignore what the brazenness of running up to the biggest source of certain death and destruction for getting too uppity and tyrannical in the area and punching them in the face. That was a sign that absolutely no expense or pragmatic limit was considered by the Islamo-fascists. It meant they would not stop and were willing to carry out any kind of brutal inhumanity imaginable, regardless of whether they could be opposed and destroyed or not. That the enemy was not reasonable, and would not accept anything less than total victory at any acceptable loss.

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