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Doesn't matter who leads who, invading sovereign territory means invading sovereign territory. One of the massive mistakes in US foreign policy after September
by toyg 5y ago
Doesn't matter who leads who, invading sovereign territory means invading sovereign territory.
One of the massive mistakes in US foreign policy after September 2001 was to effectively re-legitimise old-school military power, occupating countries "just because we can", without even a shadow of UN mandate. It makes it very hard to rhetorically argue against others doing the same now.
- scaramanga 5y agoRight. If an argument can be made for the US overthrowing Saddam. Why can't an argument be made for Iran doing it? Iran was invaded by Saddam. Why didn't we support them if Saddam was so bad? That is a rhetorical question which really needs no response because the response is: the badness of Saddam has no bearing on the question. That is very obvious in this case, but not obvious when we are seeking self-serving justifications for our own wars.