[MD] Intellect battles the [immigrant] barbarians

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
No distortion. You implied we should have done nothing because without our 
arms support, Iraq would have likely been occupied by Iran

[What Arlo had said]
"I regret that we sold arms to BOTH Iran and Iraq, with no moral fiber 
ruffled whatsoever so long as the killing destabilized the region. Even if 
I grant (which I don't) your noble concerns in containing Iran, the way 
Reagan and the republicans went about it was deplorable and immoral."

[Arlo]
Can you point out where I imply we "should have done nothing"?

[Platt]
I guess you forgot about Iran's criminal holding of our diplomats hostage 
for a year under the feckless Jimmy Carter.

[Arlo]
Shall we review the historical reasons leading up Khomeni's gaining control 
of Iran? In any case, what should Carter have done differently?

[Platt]
To prevent Iran from occupying Iraq and a large part of the Middle East, 
and vice versa, I consider what we did moral on the MOQ grounds of society 
having the right and obligation to keep barbaric biological forces in check.

[Arlo]
What about the barbaric forces of the brutal dictator who we enabled to 
deploy chemical weapons and ignored as thousands and thousands die and 
human rights are violated across the region? But of course, we've been down 
this road before. Regarding anything done to preserve US interests, the 
ends always justify the means. So what if tens of thousands die in a bloody 
war we helped to prolong? They're not Americans, so they don't really 
count. Then let's pretend our interests are wholly noble, and not motivated 
by economics, because Heaven forbid a few thousand dark-skinned lives are 
worth a drop in profits and wealth here in America.

[Arlo previously]
If my reply had even a HINT of criticism of the Morally Holy Republican 
Warriors of Freedom, all you'd do is engage in the same crap that you do above.

[Platt]
Funny. Whenever you are challenged, you call it crap, the sort of  argument 
you would expect from a third grader.

[Arlo]
You don't offer a challenge. You evade my points, or seek to distort them 
(as above). Yes, Platt, I call that crap.

Your only solution for shortening the conflict is "killing more people"? 
Good luck with that.