Thursday, February 25, 2016

Maher Asks The Hard Questions

Bill Maher is right about ISIS: New study confirms numbers in his controversial Hollywood Reporter piece - Salon.com:

...How come Saudi Arabia didn’t take in any Syrian refugees? … Why don’t they fight their own battles? Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ISIS isn’t 10 feet tall. There are 20,000 or 30,000 of them. The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people. So why do we have to be the ones leading the fight? Or be in the fight at all?

PunditFact, a branch of the fact-checking site PolitiFact, analyzed Maher’s figures in a recent report and found that they’re, by and large, on the mark...

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