Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015)
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:49PM
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The problem is, we wanted to do Iraq and Afghanistan and get out. If we had done a Marshall Plan in Iraq, we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade, but it would have been stable when we left.
Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015)
by mmjaa on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:26PM
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The problem is, you thought it was acceptable to be there in the first place.
Fuck, its 2017, are we really still explaining this? Of course we are. We must.
Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015)
by pyrale on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:19PM
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> we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade
The US has had north of 100k troops in Iraq for 7 years, then about 50k for 3 more years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#/...
But what it is doing today is a terrible, atrocious tragedy, and its far beyond the point where the means justify the ends.
I mean that as someone who follows closely the cost of American warfare, and as someone who refuses to ignore the human tragedy it is bringing to current generations of people who really, really do not deserve to have had their infrastructure utterly destroyed, their lives ruined, their children left in rubble, on a daily basis, because some smart American decided it had to be so.