California congresswoman Barbara Lee also says sending controversial weapons risks costing the US its ‘moral leadership’
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Afghanistan didn’t have a false Cassus belli, that was Iraq. Ironically Iraq appears to be doing okay these days.
Anti Western folks literally believe that Afghanistan was more illegal than Iraq. You aren’t going to convince them otherwise. It’s very similar logic and evidence that the folks that claim we should’ve invaded Saudi Arabia instead. It largely discounts a lot of the western narrative as false simply because of who it came from.
I’m not anti Western, but I don’t think the War in Afganistan was justified. Also think the war in Iraq could’ve been justified without requiring the lies. Ironically the lies made it difficult to defend the Iraq war… toppling Saddam in and of itself could be argued was moral and overdue.
Hindsight, the war in Afganistan had technically fulfilled NATOs strategic aim as there hasn’t been an attack on Nato from within Afganistan. However there have been lots of terrorist attacks since, so to what extent it actually solved the problem as opposed to just relocating it is debatable.
This is a complicated and often emotive issue. People are anti wars for all kind of reasons and it seems ridiculously ethnocentric and reductive to strawman anyone who disagrees with you into a “They hate the West (read USA)” *narrative.
It’s a slipplery slope, and how you get the misappropriation the word patriot when what is really meant is warmonger.
*assumption on my part, that you are in the west.
Your assumptions are largely correct and I largely agree on all your points, having been in a position to actually implement some of this foreign policy well after they were initiated. When I say West, I mean largely the alliance system including NATO and five eyes, not cultural.
The people I’ve met that claim Afghanistan was illegal all have held the view that NATO is the single greatest cause of conflict in the modern world and should be disbanded. I disagree with this view strongly and I believe it comes from the view that NATO largely preserves the liberal order instead of enabling what they see as a peaceful anarchist revolution. It takes a certain worldview to get to that point.
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted, you’re 100% correct.
A bit off topic, but how many dislikes do you see, and what app are you using, or are you using the website? I couldn’t see any downvotes on kbin, or in jerboa when you posted.
It has 6 up and 2 down as of now; at the time I replied it had 0 up 2 down.
I’m on Memmy (iOS) via lemmy.world
I see 1 dislike each for @spacemonk’s comment and for @4am’s reply. I’m using the kbin website.
Those appeared later. I’d like to learn more about how kbin/Lemmy work. It is possible that the dislike came from their instance, and it just took some time for kbin to update it, or possibly there are some dislikes from other instances that we can’t see here.
Ironically that @ found my kbin account, but presently I am using @[email protected]
They’re getting downvotes because the US does have moral high ground over Russia, easily.
The US has done horrible shit, and it’s not nearly as bad as Russia.
This is the lone congressperson to vote against the Afghanistan War. The US is a monolith in many ways, but this is not the post to do it in.
Then go pass legislation for something fucking amazing like hundreds of tanks and aircraft.
One Democrat congressperson publicly not liking the thing that her own Democrat POTUS did. One. There’s always one of those, or a handful.
It’s good to be aware of these things, but thankfully it’s also not a pervasive sentiment within the party in charge of the executive branch at the moment.Some people are just too fucking stupid for words.
