post hoc ergo propter hoc. the invention of Facebook was just as much a cause of leaving Iraq. or flat screen TVs. or Blu-ray disks.
which is to say the protests didn’t change anything.
I personally feel like a lot came out of it, though. The USA left Iraq for example.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Politicians making decisions based on public opinion has a lot of cause and effect relation. By all accounts it would have been easier to maintain a 40k to 100k presence in Iraq than it was to pack everything up and leave.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
please prove a casual link between protests and the ending of the war
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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People opposed the pointless war whose only winners were Exxo n Mobil.
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People voted the party who started the war out of power.
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The opposition party withdrew from the region.
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jonne@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
The USA actually still had troops in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc. And the protests were to prevent an invasion from happening in the first place, not to go in, kill a million people and then 2 decades down the line throw up your hands and say ‘that was a mistake’ with no consequences for anyone that pushed for it.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In 2007 there were 170,000 troops in Iraq
In 2010 there were 88,000
In 2024 there were 2,500
jonne@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
And the number there should be is 0, I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here. People didn’t want a war in Iraq in 2003, there were mass peaceful protests, and yet it still happened.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The number absolutely should not be 0. It’s a nation which actively funds and mobilizes religious extremists who execute homosexuals and treat women as cattle.