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Last I remember it was the US invading Afghanistan/Iraq and not the other way around. The US funding Saudi Arabia, antagonizing Iran, and collapsing Iraq has th
by magicsmoke 6y ago
Last I remember it was the US invading Afghanistan/Iraq and not the other way around. The US funding Saudi Arabia, antagonizing Iran, and collapsing Iraq has the bloody logic that it prevents an oil-rich Islamic superstate from unifying the Middle East like various Turkish/Iranian/Arabic empires have in the past. Keep globally influential competitors from forming.
- sjwright 6y ago> Last I remember it was the US invading Afghanistan/Iraq and not the other way around. Which means the US had to do all the expensive logistics work too.
- sumedh 6y ago> Keep globally influential competitors from forming. At the expense of US soldiers dying from the hands of AL Qaeda/ISIS and wasting trillions of dollars which could have been used to rebuild US infra and providing healthcare and other services to US citizens. Didn't the US lose by that definition?
- magicsmoke 6y agoArgue whether it's a winning or losing strategy in congress, I'm just saying that's what the strategy is, making sure the US has as a much of a global monopoly on conventional military power as possible.
- sumedh 6y ago> making sure the US has as a much of a global monopoly on conventional military power No one is saying US does not have that monopoly, its just that US still loses with that monopoly.