“A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.” - War is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler. The most decorated Marine in US History.
Seems simple enough, but how do you start?
It’s not even a war!
This is a “peace keeping mission”, I believe, with a “preemptive strike” of an “eminent threat” as of today I think.
Admittedly, I can’t keep track of their terms, I’m not an expert
Is it a 3-day peace keeping mission maybe?
We were always at war with Iraq/n/eurasia.
actually no, “we” (the collective rest of the world) came into conflict with Iran only in 1979.
Iran had been a monarchy for thousands of years .
Then:
- the last Shah just sucked, people hated him, only unlike in antiquity, democracies existed as a popular option, and
- because he was nationalizing the oil, the CIA helped the theocratic Iranian Islamic Revolution depose him (1979)
Please report to the Ministry of Love immediately.
Can you stop calling my bedroom this?
“Everybody in the house of love!”
We got wracked in Iraq, so we ran to Iran.
And we ran, we ran so far away, we just ran, we ran all night and day. We couldn’t get away.
We didn’t get wrecked in Iraq. We decimated the army in a few months, flattened opposition, and then engineered a Sunni-Shia civil war to facilitate domestic genocide. We lost around 4000 soldiers over two decades of occupation, relative to the estimated 1M deaths by 2007 endured by the population.
We still have over a dozen “temporary” military bases in the country. We routinely use them as a launching pad into neighboring territories and as a means of quelling domestic resistance to our oil industry. Our invasion of Iran is largely possible because of the Iraqi occupation.
I thought everybody realized that the bases in the middle east is the point for the US. Gives them ability to act there.
Wars are not about humanity wanting to fight eachother, its just leaders who want more power. The marketing campaign is always about how the other country is evil, but its always the attacking country that is evil.
Its very primitive. At the same time, on a personal level, its extreamly important to not let these things make you depressed. If you become depressed, you lose the meaning of your entire life, and then those leaders have really defeated you. Stay strong and positive. You are probably a much better person than those leaders and thats all that matters in the end.
We still got wrecked, as the goals of the mission were not accomplished.
Of course we slaughtered them, it was called the “turkey shoot” for a reason. They never had a prayer.
the goals of the mission were not accomplished
Of course we slaughtered them
And we got stupid rich doing it. Which was the mission.
I think the ‘we’ is a bit overstated.
A couple of already rich people got a lot richer
Iran is SOOOO much harder core then Iraq ever was
Sure, Iraq and Iran have both been disasters for the US, but have you heard how well our operation in Iraf is going?
Dude wrote that story in the 1940s. Obviously inspired by WWII. We rewrote the story in the 2000s for much the same reason.
