Re:On the removal of Come Back Alive
by arpanet86 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:24AM
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Killing over 1 million Iraqis, most of them civilians, counts as a "win"?
The war massively damaged the US government's credibility, both domestically and internationally, cost the US ~$2T, and did little to stabilize the region; one might be able to argue that it destabilized it, in fact. The US won a military victory in Iraq, but emerged worse off on the whole as a result.
Re:On the removal of Come Back Alive
by badRNG on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:33PM
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If wars have either winners, losers, or ties, the Iraqis definitely were the "losers" of the invasion of Iraq by the US. This isn't intended to be a moral value judgement on the slaughter of the 1 million Iraqis in the process.
The war massively damaged the US government's credibility, both domestically and internationally, cost the US ~$2T, and did little to stabilize the region; one might be able to argue that it destabilized it, in fact. The US won a military victory in Iraq, but emerged worse off on the whole as a result.