The claims of WMD’s in Iraq were never credible. There were huge protests about it at the time. The rationale behind the Afghanistan war had a little more logic

The claims of WMD’s in Iraq were never credible. There were huge protests about it at the time. The rationale behind the Afghanistan war had a little more logic to it, but it was still always doomed to failure (as has been proved out): the easiest way to turn everyone against you is to invade them. In foresight, not just in hindsight, both these wars were utterly pointless and morally abhorrent. If western countries want to reduce Islamist extremism, we might want to start by examining our relationship with Saudi Arabia (who seem to be the ones funding and pushing a lot of it, and who we seem happy to trade with)