Quoted from Salon, online: “Real Time” host Bill Maher has been an outspoken opponent of ISIS, American involvement in the Middle East, and — perhaps most controversially — Syrian refugees. All this (and more) he laid out in a characteristically biting essay for The Hollywood Reporter.
On the matter(s):
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?
On the matter(s):
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?