America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran?
America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran?
If the United States joins Israel’s fight to try to finish Israel’s job, it will enter into a war of unknowable scope against a country of 90 million people
This time, it'll be an even stupider, more murderous mistake.
Well lets see. Dough brain trump is in charge, his defense secretary can't use a messaging app and virtually everyone else in his administration is probably licking a window somewhere. Yes I think it will be a mistake
Yes.
With gusto.
Lmao it was not a mistake, it was a calculated strategic move that enriched the defense industry and a few at the top
Tinfoil hat on, we get into war with Iran and all the soldiers that weren't previously vetted as loyalists go to die first.
The ol' Operation: Get Behind The Darkies IRL!
Don't give them ideas! Brown people are suddenly "deported" to Iran.
So like everyone
Betteridge's law not doing so well these days.
I agree Iraq was a mistake, but I believe Iraq was a mistake based on intelligence failure - which UK, Australia, Japan, and others agreed to participate. That failure took two years to complete and the Us gave Iraq tome to cooperate with UN weapons inspection teams. Yes, a mistake - but a mistake that the US did not do unilaterally.
Trump isn’t going to garner support from other countries, wait for the UN, or examine Tulsi G’s info on Iran nukes - he just wants to swing his military like a giant penis.
Iraq wasn't an "intelligence failure". There was tampered "evidence", singular sources blown out of proportion instead of their veracity challenged and wild computer animations to drive the point home with the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_Iraqi_mobile_weapons_laboratories
They knew they were lying, just that today it is even more brazen. The US needed to produce images of "strength" after 9/11 so it was clear they will invade someone. They didn't invade their allies in Saudi Arabia despite most of the perpetrators being Saudi nationals. It was clear to seasoned politicians that this is a sham aimed at producing the right images and seize the opportunity to reshape the region.
I agree Iraq was a mistake, but I believe Iraq was a mistake based on intelligence failure
If it was just an intelligence failure half the country wouldn't be railing against it. Iraq was also justified by lies, just slightly better packaged lies.
But but but - I thought it was MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?!
the guy got his picture in a flight suit and everything!
"freedom is on the march"
And Americans ate it up like the crummy greasy fast food most of them live on.
Good comparison with fast food, plenty of folks consume propaganda for similar reasons. Just as there are food deserts there are also information deserts.
This is going to be the breaking point if we actually put boots on the ground in Iran and don't just engage in drone terrorism and bombing runs. More military action in the middle east is a ubiquitously unpopular platform, and wars that are perceived as pointless have almost always been devastating to ruling party / presidential support. Further, the US military has been struggling to hit its recruitment numbers for years now, and this isn't going to help that. It also stretches the government's attention even further, and makes it more vulnerable to dissident activity at home.
¡Fool me once.... Can't get fooled again!
Already did.
Imagine how stupid Bush Jr was and then imagine how Trump compares to him.
We don't call them The United Mistakes of America for nothing.
Mistake? Noooo...
GWB's and Cheney's military contractor buddies got fat off that 20 year quagmire. I'm sure trump and hegseth are on their payroll.
First time it was a mistake then a strategy from the united snake
Looks like it, yeah.
For the past two months, Iran had been in diplomatic negotiations with the Trump administration, and both sides appeared to be getting closer to a deal that would drastically curtail Tehran’s enrichment of uranium and prevent any path to the bomb.
Then Israel attacked. It acted less to pre-empt an Iranian bomb than to preempt American diplomacy.
It's probably seen as a great success to the groups that profited from it. Same as trickle down economics, and every evil industrial complex.