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And we ran, we ran so far away, we just ran, we ran all night and day. We couldn't get away.
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.
I thought everybody realized that the bases in the middle east is the point for the US. Gives them ability to act there.
Wars are not about humanity wanting to fight eachother, its just leaders who want more power. The marketing campaign is always about how the other country is evil, but its always the attacking country that is evil.
Its very primitive. At the same time, on a personal level, its extreamly important to not let these things make you depressed. If you become depressed, you lose the meaning of your entire life, and then those leaders have really defeated you. Stay strong and positive. You are probably a much better person than those leaders and thats all that matters in the end.
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.
And we got stupid rich doing it. Which was the mission.
I think the 'we' is a bit overstated.
A couple of already rich people got a lot richer
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.