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A sane commander that starts useless wars in the Middle East to transfer billions of tax payer money to his donators?
by MatthiasP 6y ago
A sane commander that starts useless wars in the Middle East to transfer billions of tax payer money to his donators?
- criley2 6y agoIt's been like 17 years since the US started a war in the Middle East. Your talking points are a little dusty.
- nix23 6y agoAnd still going on...maybe shake that dust off, no?
- jessaustin 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2019_United_States_airstrikes_in_Iraq_and_Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2019_United_States_ai... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
- adventured 6y agoWhile I'm an advocate of the US entirely removing itself militarily from the Middle East, none of those properly qualify against the parent's point. The parent referred to starting wars. The first one doesn't qualify at all. The US and NATO have intervened in the two civil wars (along with numerous other countries; with France recently pleading with the US to remain in Syria). It's an overreach to claim the US started the Libyan Civil War or the Syrian Civil War, neither is true. The US was opportunistic in trying to squeeze Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad out (with Russia on the other side, trying to prop up the dictatorship). Those civil wars are the inevitable result of decades of extreme oppression by dictatorship, which will always end in armed revolution.
- ghthor 6y agoIt's likely that the US intelligence was involved in stoking the flames of civil war as a cover to make a military intervention publicly palatable.
- DenisM 6y ago> The US and NATO have intervened in the two civil wars It might have been a civil war at the start, but after that it was a war of the US against two sovereign states. Nothing civil about that.
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- criley2 6y ago- Airstrikes are not a war and the US is not at war with Iran (believe me, you'd know if they were) - Libya was started by France who begged the US to join them on their little sorties, Italy ran air command too, the US was just along for the ride) - The Syrian Civil War has basically nothing to do with America, blame Russia as the leadership there gassing civilians and genociding undesirables is a Putin stooge.
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- nix23 6y agoYes that, so true!
- gameswithgo 6y agoNo, we don't think those were sane either.
- DenisM 6y agoHow far back do you have to go to find a "sane" one? Bush Sr? Eisenhower?
- dopamean 6y agoCarter.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoIke