Lesley Carhart Mar 2

Feels different than Iraq. In 2001-03 everyone was in for whatever and it was blasphemy to say the war was unjust or ill advised. Everyone was ready to enlist.

People don’t want to die for Israel and they don’t want their kids to. Even the die hard MAGA aren’t into it. They can’t sell dead troops.

Show threadRichard K Mar 2
@hacks4pancakes the war on Iraq followed a very vivid attack on the US, even if the attack didn't come from Iraq. The war on Iran follows Trump's whims.
Show threadPPNMar 2
@RichSPK @hacks4pancakes no. The war in Iraq was justified by nothing but warmongering and lies to get the oil and the contracts to rebuild after destroying everything. The French saw through the stupidity and didn’t join for a very good reason. This war in Iran is no different.
Show threadRaven667

@ppn @RichSPK @hacks4pancakes these are the trees, to take a step back and look at the forest, the occupation of Afghanistan was also unnecessary, the Bush administration intentionally passed up opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and let him run free so they could justify the full scale war, but the _reason_ they cared about Afghanistan is that it borders *Iran* and Cheney saw it as part of US anti-Iranian policy. The fact the US was in bed with Saddam Hussein in the first place was anti-Iranian policy, so much of our Middle East meddling and alliances is ultimately about our broken relationship with Iran.

The US has two countries that the government is irrationally hostile to, Cuba and Iran, for defying US colonial ambition.

Mar 2 at 2:56pmWeb
Show threadPPNMar 2
@raven667 @hacks4pancakes @RichSPK I said nothing about Afghanistan and am well aware that it was just as unnecessary. You are teaching me nothing that I don’t already know. The US appears to be irrational to Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq because you don’t understand the strained relationship between shiia/sunni that the US is trying to take advantage of.
Show threadPPNMar 3
@raven667 @hacks4pancakes @RichSPK someone blocked me and seems mad that they were schooled and proven to know nothing about the shiia/sunni conflicts at the core of US imperialism in the Middle East 😅