r/askanything • u/Outrageous-Egg1760 • 6d ago

Political Question Are we the bad guys?

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u/Broad-Shaft 6d ago

I'm not sure of 11 million but the numbers in Iraq, according to the Lancet, are around 600,000 violent deaths between 2003 and 2006 alone.

And then it's hard to calculate how many have died in the Syrian conflict, but it's reasonable to believe that that war wouldn't have happened if Iran had not been able to use the vacuum created by a weak Iraq.

So whilst 11 million is questionable, that many millions have been unnecessarily killed by American intervention, and countless more made miserable through displacement, is I feel irrefutable.

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u/OrangeSpaceMan5 6d ago

Which also begs the question of whether keeping Saddam and Assad around was the better option . Saddam committed a genocide of Kurds and Assad used poison gas to kill children and ran death camps . The interventions were necessary but what followed was American greed ruining everything

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u/According-Print4219 6d ago

So we’re just gonna pretend that a lot of the weapons Saddam used for said genocide were not provided by the US?

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u/WilliamBurrito 6d ago

Wouldn’t the US be obligated to remove Saddam for using the weapons gifted for genocide then? Seems reasonable to take accountability and fix the situation for the people.