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Which war did Bill Clinton start again?
by titzer 6y ago
Which war did Bill Clinton start again?
- gscott 6y agoHe tossed a few rockets around https://jacobinmag.com/2016/10/bill-clinton-al-shifa-sudan-bombing-khartoum https://jacobinmag.com/2016/10/bill-clinton-al-shifa-sudan-b...
- dragonwriter 6y agoSo did Trump, so if you are just looking at that and not, say, the Balkans, I'm not sure why Trump gets any extra credit here. Of course, there's probably some dispute over whether intervening to prevent genocide, either in general or in the specific manner it actually occurred under Clinton in the Balkans, is really a negative.
- bjoli 6y agoHe definitely didn't start it, but there were US missiles landing on at least 3 continents. I was a child at the time, but it was such big news that I still remember two of those occasions.
- ivalm 6y agoKosovo war was US led (not opposing it, but definitely under Clinton)
- AntiImperialist 6y agoHere he boasts that he did want to start many but the Republicans kept blocking him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUAzGzTh_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUAzGzTh_g
- jscohn85 6y agoOr Obama, for that matter?
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoHow good is your context of Libya and how it effected Syria?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Which war did Bill Clinton start again? Generally, the US/NATO-led interventions in the Balkans, most notably the US-led NATO-Serbia war, after explicit Congressional disapproval. Though I suppose those could be excluded since they were interventions in existing conflicts.
- akhilcacharya 6y agoHe didn't, and neither did Obama if we're going to give Trump credit for this.
- Xixi 6y agoThe 2011 military intervention in Libya happened under Obama. It was led by France and UK, with US support, and wouldn't have happened if Obama had not green-lighted the operation. 10 years later the country is still in the middle of a civil war, de facto cut in two opposing camps that each control roughly half of the country. Of course, compared to Iraq invasion it was a small scale operation, but is still generally considered Obama responsibility (although of course primarily Sarkozy and Cameron responsibility).