[MD] Intellect battles the [immigrant] barbarians

[Arlo Bensinger]

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

[Platt]
"I don't (grant) your noble concerns in containing Iran."

[Arlo's comment]
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]
So, my saying to you I doubt your concerns were noble, means to you we 
should have done nothing at all? That doesn't make sense, Platt. You're 
stretching.

[Arlo previously]
In any case, what should Carter have done differently?

[Platt]
What Reagan did.

[Arlo]
Acted immorally?

[Arlo previously]
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.

[Platt]
Ah, playing the race card, I see. You liberals are incorrigible. As for the 
rest, we've exchanged views.

[Arlo]
If its not their non-whiteness, what else could it be that would lead you 
to believe "protecting US interests" was worth the cost of millions of dead 
from a war we double-dipped arms sales, and enabled the use of chemical 
weapons? Was the Iranian civilians killed by the gas "worth less" than US 
interests?

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

[Platt]
Kill or be killed. What's your pleasure?

[Arlo]
Ah, yes. "Fear". The Party Foundation.