a prophecy - Lemmy.world

They really are using 9/11 as a meme template now...
The sad truth is every year less and less people will care. Do you feel the same intensity of emotions about pearl harbor? I know I don’t.
What’s really sad is that no one cares about Ashurbanipal’s destruction of Elam anymore
What does that sound like a Morrowind daedric temple?
Memes beyond measure, outlander.
I care more about the million Iraqis we murdered or at least enabled the death of in a global temper tantrum as we set the stage for a headlong descent into fascism.
People already don’t think much about Afghanistan, yet that’s the country that got invaded first after 9/11
To be fair, Afghanistan was actually involved in the 9/11 plot, unlike Iraq.
Funny, because it turned out to be Saudis. And Bin Laden himself was bunkered in Pakistan.

Yes, all 45 000 civilians killed by the US military were involved…

watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/…/civilians

Civilians Killed & Wounded | Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The Costs of War
It simply killed many fewer people with an at least half-assed justification, instead of an outright lie to justify a neocrusade.
Turns out it was also a lie in Afghanistan and the people who financed ObL must be laughing their ass off about it!
It’s not that sad. That shit was relentlessly exploited to manipulate people into supporting unjust oil wars.
Don’t forgot manipulating people into accepting a surveillance state with open arms!