those wars in the middle east weren't just pointless they were counter intuitive. america had a stable enough ally in the islamic republic of afghanistan that could've fought off the taliban and at the very least slowed them down for a decade or more akin to the ussr's puppet regime however the us pulled the rug out from under them, taking all the support for their air force away and leaving them with aircraft they couldn't utilize. iraq is now under the de facto control of iran at this point, need i say more? america enjoyed huge amounts of support and goodwill going into iraq and squandered it by firing all ba'athist officials and laying off all the soldiers on day one and thereby sending millions of military aged, trained men with weapons into the fray, poor and hungry, as if they would just evaporate into the ether. i'm not opposed to us hegemony in of itself, however i don't think even the most patriotic flag wearing jingoist can deny that america continually has made huge mistakes.
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