It’s not even a war!
This is a “peace keeping mission”, I believe, with a “preemptive strike” of an “eminent threat” as of today I think.
Admittedly, I can’t keep track of their terms, I’m not an expert
“A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.” - War is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler. The most decorated Marine in US History.
We were always at war with Iraq/n/Eurasia.
actually no, “we” (the collective rest of the world) came into conflict with Iran only in 1979.
Iran had been a monarchy for thousands of years .
Then:
- the last Shah just sucked, people hated him, only unlike in antiquity, democracies existed as a popular option, and
- because he was nationalizing the oil, the CIA helped the theocratic Iranian Islamic Revolution depose him (1979)
Please report to the Ministry of Love immediately.
Can you stop calling my bedroom this?
“Everybody in the house of love!”
We got wracked in Iraq, so we ran to Iran.
Iran is SOOOO much harder core then Iraq ever was
We didn’t get wrecked in Iraq. We decimated the army in a few months, flattened opposition, and then engineered a Sunni-Shia civil war to facilitate domestic genocide. We lost around 4000 soldiers over two decades of occupation, relative to the estimated 1M deaths by 2007 endured by the population.
We still have over a dozen “temporary” military bases in the country. We routinely use them as a launching pad into neighboring territories and as a means of quelling domestic resistance to our oil industry. Our invasion of Iran is largely possible because of the Iraqi occupation.
Are you counting the American vets that comitted suicide in response to the “War on Terror” and the people who dies in America from an opiod overdose after its export magically shot up out of Afghanistan after the US invaded?
No. Because that’s third and fourth order effects of generically bad US public policies. The opioid overdoses, in particular, were driven by the legal prescriptions of Oxycotin giving way to a wave of criminalization and cutbacks on a newly created population of addicts, for instance. American vets committing suicide are a problem in peacetime and wartime alike, largely driven by the abysmal treatment of enlisted men.
Didn’t opiod production in Afghanistan shoot up like 700% when America invaded? Not sure how that wouldn’t be tied to the opiod overdose deaths in America. And I’ve never been alive during peace time in Erica, or rather from America, so I can’t compare, as I’ve only heard of a dozen+/day vets dying from suicide in America after the early 2000s Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
We still got wrecked, as the goals of the mission were not accomplished.
Of course we slaughtered them, it was called the “turkey shoot” for a reason. They never had a prayer.
the goals of the mission were not accomplished
Of course we slaughtered them
And we got stupid rich doing it. Which was the mission.
Dude wrote that story in the 1940s. Obviously inspired by WWII. We rewrote the story in the 2000s for much the same reason.
The burning of the Reichstag building was a teaching moment for decades to come. Much of America is catching on now though. Jews? Not so much.
Sure, Iraq and Iran have both been disasters for the US, but have you heard how well our operation in Iraf is going?
