52fightersMar 1

You know who we hate more

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51612219

Show threadPugJesusMar 1

I feel the same way I do about the invasion of Iraq.

A tyrant’s death (and, in Iran, the possibility of) the overthrow of his regime cause me no tears. But I also recognize how immensely fucked things are going to get, how this wasn’t the only course of action available for the USA, what effects this will have on OTHER matters of international relations, and what immense cost the ordinary people of the country are going to end up paying.

Not unlike the little girls killed in the opening salvo of the Iranian war

Dead Iraqi Would Have Loved Democracy

BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Baghdad resident Taha Sabri, killed Monday in a U.S. air strike on his city, would have loved the eventual liberation of Iraq and establishment of democracy, had he lived to see it, his grieving widow said.

The Onion
Show threadhumanamericanMar 1

this wasn’t the only course of action available for the USA

This presumes the USA needed to take any action at all.

The average American citizen does not benefit from US hegemony. Neither do the citizens of the countries we “liberate”.

The US government clearly doesn’t care about freedom or human rights. Look at how it currently treats its own citizens. Look at how its treated marginalized people on its territory, including minority citizens, for its entire existence. Look at all its authoritarian allies. Heck, its favorite West Asian partner is an Apartheid state.

We Americans need to stop buying the propaganda we’ve been fed that we are somehow duty bound to be the world’s police force. That only serves the boogereaters bourgeoisie.

Show threadPugJesusMar 1
Inaction itself is a course of action, but I would argue that continuing negotiations with Iran to prevent nuclear proliferation would have been a positive action to take under a sane administration.
Show threadMantzy81
You mean the deal that was in place, was working fine but torn up by Trump 1.0 simply because “it was an Obama deal” and a certain orange racist can’t cope with anything a black man may have been involved in.
Mar 1 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadPugJesusMar 1
Yeah. Like I said, under a sane administration.