Message from @not_matt
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No!
i never said so fam
@not_matt WOuld you rather live in modern day iraq or saddam era iraq?
Depression ^
saddam killed 250,000 iraqis
sanctions against iraq killed 576,000 children, alone.
in attempting to solve the problem, we made it worse
How many would have died if Saddam continued to live on
maybe more
well we weren't *really* trying to solve the problem, but merely pretending to be
People die in war
Can't get around that
But you have to think long term
in the long term, a better iraq would save many more lives than if we did nothing
but the only possible justification for iraq was humanitarian and getting saddam out of power. humanitarian war is impossible
like you said, people die in war
you can't liberate people through death
You cannot get a dictator out of power without war, comrade
Even Vietnam knew this with Pol Pot
revolutions can take dictators down. imperial meddling makes hierarchical domination *more* strongly entrenched long term
So Vietnam was wrong to act against the Khmer Rouge?
Absolutely not!
"imperial meddling"
In the long run from today, Iraq would be better off
im so triggered by the fact that pol pot is still called a communist
the greater good is a legitimate argument to back
'im only pretending to be a communist for soviet union support'
hey guys look at this commie doing commie things
there's a private subreddit which is pol pot themed
they talk about "pol pot's writings and ideology" lmfao