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by sophacles
26 days ago
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> Well, first of all I did enlist in the military and go to war in Iraq. Congratulations, you have experience in pointless middle east wars, and expertise at ineffective action which takes 20 years to utterly fail. It seems like the best place for you is in Iran fighting another pointless war that isn't actually doing much but making life worse back home - it's what you're good at. I want to see you thrive friend, go use you skills and take the place of some kid that doesn't need to die or be ruined by this pointless conflict you want. |
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I don't even think that's true anymore, though I used to. When I look at Iraq at least today I think it's much better off. They went from Saddam Hussein to a functioning parliamentary style government and, excluding Iranian action to destabilize the country they are prospering. Was it worth the money that the United States spent and the lives lost? Maybe, maybe not. But I think many folks are anchoring their understanding to in an early 2000s view of the war and I believe that view is increasingly incorrect.
> It seems like the best place for you is in Iran fighting another pointless war that isn't actually doing much but making life worse back home - it's what you're good at. I want to see you thrive friend, go use you skills and take the place of some kid that doesn't need to die or be ruined by this pointless conflict you want.
War is just politics by other means. Western society and our democratic form of government by nature don't require a person to personally enact or participate in a policy that they agree with or they voted for. That would be highly impractical, certainly even more so at the scale that the United States operates at with over 340 million people.