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Why? They used to be quite stable. Hadn't US decided to invade them, no civil war would've happened. Particularly, regarding Iraq, it was US' decision to disar
by emilsedgh 8y ago
Why? They used to be quite stable. Hadn't US decided to invade them, no civil war would've happened.
Particularly, regarding Iraq, it was US' decision to disarm Saddam's army and start from scratch, creating a huge void that allowed the civil war and ISIS to rise.
- runn1ng 8y agoCharacterising Afghanistan pre-invasion as "stable" is bold. They had civil war through the whole 90s and were ruled by either warlords or Talebs. US invasion didn't help, but it wasn't stable in any sense of the word before that