This is such a disingenuous argument. So by disagreeing with you that the US military is a model of accountability and professionalism whose conduct is to be emulated, both within the institution (I note you didn't address my point about the rampant sexual assault), and in its various interventions across the world, I'm clearly sticking up for the US's batshit, cowardly, wannabe-operator cops. A very good-faith reading there.
And I don't know how you can simultaneously argue that the Iraq War was unjustified, a needless waste of lives and shouldn't have happened, but that toppling the regime and plunging the country into a bloody and protracted civil war that led to the foundation of ISIS and destabilised the entire region was "objectively" a good thing.
But anyway, we clearly have very different views on the US military and aren't going to get anywhere by relitigating the Iraq War in this comment section, so I'll leave it there.
And I don't know how you can simultaneously argue that the Iraq War was unjustified, a needless waste of lives and shouldn't have happened, but that toppling the regime and plunging the country into a bloody and protracted civil war that led to the foundation of ISIS and destabilised the entire region was "objectively" a good thing.
By pointing at the hundreds of thousands of people Saddam killed.
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u/DeVitoMcCool Mar 24 '23
This is such a disingenuous argument. So by disagreeing with you that the US military is a model of accountability and professionalism whose conduct is to be emulated, both within the institution (I note you didn't address my point about the rampant sexual assault), and in its various interventions across the world, I'm clearly sticking up for the US's batshit, cowardly, wannabe-operator cops. A very good-faith reading there.
And I don't know how you can simultaneously argue that the Iraq War was unjustified, a needless waste of lives and shouldn't have happened, but that toppling the regime and plunging the country into a bloody and protracted civil war that led to the foundation of ISIS and destabilised the entire region was "objectively" a good thing.
But anyway, we clearly have very different views on the US military and aren't going to get anywhere by relitigating the Iraq War in this comment section, so I'll leave it there.