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minus-squareSuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·9 months agoIt worked in Japan and Germany. Depends a lot on the context. Still too risky to consider it a good default strategy.
minus-squareIlovethebomblinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down7·9 months agoIraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoAll it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoI googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …
minus-squareMNByChoice@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoPoint of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?
It worked in Japan and Germany. Depends a lot on the context. Still too risky to consider it a good default strategy.
Iraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.
All it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.
Source?
I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …
Point of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?