[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

That sounds a lot like rationalising to me.



Because we must practice what we preach, also you can't pick or choose. Either you believe everyone deserves Human Rights or nobody does. It's a black and white issue, grey doesn't exist here.

The war in Iraq and everything that followed was done in the name of ending extremism and ending regimes like Saddam Hussein's and that ironically resulted in the rise of IS which even the Al Queda doesn't want to be associated with. It was the need for a blood price in the first place that created IS and if we're comitting human rights abuses ourselves then that just gives IS more power and arguments against the West to recruit people into their ranks.

yup, very good point