Wild Bill
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Criticism of this war, or whatever we want to call it, isn’t coming only from the left. There is a very real critique grounded in observable outcomes. Just look at the cause and effect over the past twenty years.
Iraq - Overthrew Saddam Hussein, spent trillions of dollars, lost thousands of American lives, and the country has experienced two decades of instability
Libya - NATO intervention (effectively an american intervention), killed Gaddafi. After the regime collapsed, the country fractured and created chaos. Was teh catalyst for refugee crisis in Europe (exactly as Gaddafi predicted).
Syria - US and Israel effort to overthrow government. Led to long deadly civil war, total instability and millions of refugges into Europe
Afghanistan - Twenty years of war occupation ended with the Taliban returning to power. Trillions lost, American lives lost. No stability gained.
Gaza - The US provides billions of military aid and political support to Israel. Repeated wars and conflict. Result is outrageous levels of civilians dead and widespread destruction of infrastructure.
Yemen - US backed the Saudi-led war and I beleive did their own bombing as well. Years of fighting, no stability and enormous levels of civilian suffering.
Lebanon - US funds Israel bombing them. Many factors here but that's a huge component and country completely collapsed
Egypt - US meddling helped remove Mubarak. The great color revolution resulted in military governing, removal of political opposition, economic disaster, and American taxpayers giving their gov't over a billion a year to capitulate to Israel.
The US helped create the conditions that led to the current regime taking power in Iran, and now many of the same people who supported all the nonsense listed above are telling us we need to use our money, our weapons, and American lives to hammer Iran in the name of stability and American safety. That's what the same policymakers and politicians who promoted all of this shit claim now.
I don't believe them. I believe the opposite is true - they want instability and a result of that instabity is americans are less safe. I'm sure some will disagree, but does the motive really even matter? Let's just just use our fucking brains and examine the results, and it's very obvious how this ends if they topple Iran - decades of instability, millions of refugees and Americans eating a pile of shit and payin the tab.
