Worse for innocent people. Like the millions of innocent people who have died in the Middle East since the first Gulf War - in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Libya. We’re the bad guys.
I’ll look into the China and BLM stuff.
You know
nothing of what American involvement in the middle east was like.
You know
nothing of how directly and visibly people's lives changed when we booted Saddam from Iraq, when the Taliban was ousted from Afghanistan.
I lived in the Middle East in the 2000's. I saw some of the changes that were visible even from a moderate distance.
The
worst thing that the American involvement with the middle east did, from the perspective of the people in those two countries, was
end. That resulted in Iraq collapsing, and Afghanistan falling back into the hands of the Taliban. The second-worst thing that the US did, was not force its values on both nations
harder, to end monstrous local cultural practices like Bacha-Bazi, and the sheer level of corruption that is considered 'normal.'
Americans were so restrained that almost every enemy just assumed we were
weak, because we lacked the willingness to just slaughter them willy-nilly.
Was their collateral damage? Yes.
Were wrong calls made sometimes, that got entire groups of people killed who should not have been? Yes.
Was any of this
remotely near as bad as what the people there were already doing to each other before we showed up, and started doing again afterwards?
No, not even close.
You know
nothing of what happened in those places, except propaganda from anti-western and hardline isolationist sources, and your words spit on the blood sacrifice made by American soldiers who fought to
protect the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, even if America ultimately gave up on the project.
I can respect arguments that we never should have gone there in the first place. I can respect arguments that we should have just bombed the Taliban and Al-Qaeda out of existence, then called job done and gone home.
Your claim here though? It's
disgusting.