It was tough for me to put my finger on what was off about the cases for invading Afghanistan and Iraq. The rhetoric around fighting the Taliban or replacing Saddam seemed like good enough reasons, even if none of it really made sense as a response to 9/11, so it seemed kind of fishy. I'm not sure I even understand it fully now. The one thing that is clear is that the entire political establishment spent decades facilitating these wars, and all we have to show for it is a massive wealth transfer. I also now know that you can't say you're promoting democracy while at the same time bolstering the power of the richest people in the world.
In school at the time (in Western Civ class IIRC, lol) we watched this documentary on Saddam about how evil he was. It's the one where he walks around a table and like kills someone or cuts off their hand. I thought he was super evil, but I still knew the WMD thing was a lie. I marched to just let the inspectors finish their inspection. But they invaded before they could give an all-clear. Funny.
It was wild how many people saw it as a revenge response to 9/11.
Seeing the invasion of Iraq as revenge for 9/11 might seem dumb, but I was loudly informed by a coworker today that the covid pandemic was actually created by a partnership between China and Fauci to randomly kill Ameticans for some unspecified reason. My criteria for dumb has shifted. Fuck Fauci, of course, but for the shit he actually did/didn't do.
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It was tough for me to put my finger on what was off about the cases for invading Afghanistan and Iraq. The rhetoric around fighting the Taliban or replacing Saddam seemed like good enough reasons, even if none of it really made sense as a response to 9/11, so it seemed kind of fishy. I'm not sure I even understand it fully now. The one thing that is clear is that the entire political establishment spent decades facilitating these wars, and all we have to show for it is a massive wealth transfer. I also now know that you can't say you're promoting democracy while at the same time bolstering the power of the richest people in the world.
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In school at the time (in Western Civ class IIRC, lol) we watched this documentary on Saddam about how evil he was. It's the one where he walks around a table and like kills someone or cuts off their hand. I thought he was super evil, but I still knew the WMD thing was a lie. I marched to just let the inspectors finish their inspection. But they invaded before they could give an all-clear. Funny.
It was wild how many people saw it as a revenge response to 9/11.
Seeing the invasion of Iraq as revenge for 9/11 might seem dumb, but I was loudly informed by a coworker today that the covid pandemic was actually created by a partnership between China and Fauci to randomly kill Ameticans for some unspecified reason. My criteria for dumb has shifted. Fuck Fauci, of course, but for the shit he actually did/didn't do.
Protagonist syndrome lol