The only reason there was any popular opposition to the invasion of Iraq is because people didn’t like losing.
that's not entirely true, the international protests against the war before it even started were among the largest in history. It didn't end up mattering, which is a fact I love to bring up to "just :vote:" types to demonstrate how little public sentiment matters, but nonetheless, there was a huge section of the population that was vocally anti-Iraq war before it began.
I think because that was much more successfully sold as the source of the 9/11 attacks. Iraq was much more obviously not, which is why they pivoted to WMDs as the main selling point.
that's not entirely true, the international protests against the war before it even started were among the largest in history. It didn't end up mattering, which is a fact I love to bring up to "just :vote:" types to demonstrate how little public sentiment matters, but nonetheless, there was a huge section of the population that was vocally anti-Iraq war before it began.
Why did this large mobilization not occur for Afghanistan?
I think because that was much more successfully sold as the source of the 9/11 attacks. Iraq was much more obviously not, which is why they pivoted to WMDs as the main selling point.
So Americans were willing to engage in a bloody act of pointless and obviously false revenge, yet suddenly gained a conscience two years later?
People didn't like that the Ubermenschen troops were coming home in their pretty little flag-draped coffins. That's it.
I think that’s overly cynical, and doesn’t describe the entire protest, but whatever, I’m not going to argue with you :shrug-outta-hecks: