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The killings of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were so amazingly successful in stabilizing those countries that Americans keep repeating the pattern.
by pavlov 8mo ago
The killings of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were so amazingly successful in stabilizing those countries that Americans keep repeating the pattern.
- mkoubaa 8mo agoIt's almost like they are either stupid or the point was never about stability
- TulliusCicero 8mo agoNot a killing, but capturing Noriega did in fact work out well. Panama of today is generally stable and rich (by Latam standards anyway).
- jacquesm 8mo agoPanama's main asset can't be removed from Panama.
- pavlov 8mo agoAlso Panama's population and land area are an order of magnitude smaller than these Middle East states, and they were already an American client state in the past.
- sph 8mo agoThis is prime cherry-picked propaganda bullshit. What about Augusto Pinochet, to name drop a counterexample? How did that work out for the Chilean people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#U.S._backing_of_the_coup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#U.S._backing_...
- TulliusCicero 8mo agoOkay, then how about Japan and West Germany? It's almost like whether "regime change" works or not depends on the specifics. It's not something that can be universally generalized.