minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•9 months agoIt worked in Japan and Germany. Depends a lot on the context. Still too risky to consider it a good default strategy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•9 months agoIraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoAll it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoPoint of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?
minus-square@shplanelinkEnglish2•9 months agoI googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …
It worked in Japan and Germany. Depends a lot on the context. Still too risky to consider it a good default strategy.
Iraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.
All it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.
Point of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?
Source?
I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …