• Taco2112
    231·
    25 days ago

    I know this is a meme so I shouldn’t look for historic accuracy here but a the vast majority of the US, and many of our allies, were on board for an invasion of the Middle East (Afghanistan) in 2001 after 9/11. It was the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that turned many people off.

      • grue
        16·
        24 days ago

        The middle east is also southwest Asia.

      • Taco2112
        5·
        23 days ago

        Thanks for the info! In the early 20th c. “The Middle East” was defined as the land between India and the Ottoman Empire. The term has since changed to not include Iraq and Afghanistan. During the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US government used the term “Greater Middle East” to encompass those two countries. That’s where my confusion lies. Learn something new every day.

      • Phunter@lemmy.zip
        41·
        24 days ago

        I dunno, the TV showed sand and camels and that’s the only thing I understand to exist in the middle east.

    • iturnedintoanewt
      3·
      24 days ago

      vast majority in many of our allies

      Not in Spain, it was not. I think the biggest demonstrations ever recorded in Spain to this day are the ones of those days, saying a very clear NO TO WAR. The president still sent the army any fucking way.

      • Taco2112
        31·
        23 days ago

        the vast majority of the US, and many of our allies, were on board for an invasion of the Middle East (Afghanistan) in 2001 after 9/11.

        Spain did support the US in the war in Afghanistan after 2001. They did not support the invasion of Iraq in 2003.