Jesus fucking Christ this post alone should be considered an act of violence for it’s sheer depravity and mockery of millions of deaths. The US did it’s thing in Iraq for 15 years, utterly failed, made lots of people rich and then they left. How dare you claim that was success for the anti-war movement. What is wrong with you? What the fuck does is “Anti-NATO religious extremism?” This is suspiciously nonsensical. Is a chat bot writing your responses for you?
Are you confused about which comment thread you’re in? You said initially that the protests LESS than 20 years ago of the Iraq War were impotent and I pointed out that the US Involvment in Iraq sharply declined as a result of those protests, despite anti-NATO religious extremism presence growing in the region for many of the following years.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
NATO is still currently in Iraq, the US 2,500 troops are only a part of the effort to hamper ISIS.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
NATO went to Afghanistan. France (part of NATO) was so against Iraq that they wouldn’t let the US use its bases for refueling. American politicians officially renamed French Fries to Freedom fries because they were mad at France and other members of NATO did not support Iraq and sent no troops.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Technically NATO has never been mobilized anywhere, but when multiple NATO members go somewhere we call it a NATO operation.
jonne@infosec.pub 1 day ago
The protests didn’t do anything to that, it was the insurgency causing a steady supply of body bags to come back.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I find it hard to believe 9 other people as misinformed as you scrolled this far into this thread to upvote your theory that US troops never left Iraq they just died.
jonne@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Sure, everyone else is wrong, and you’re right even when you’re seemingly deliberately misreading everything. If you’re not trolling, you should probably get yourself checked.