Sunday, August 3, 2014

There was no good reason for the US to invade Iraq in 2003

An essay was originally posted to Helium Network on Sept. 3, 2007; posted to this blog on Jan. 26, 2014; and moved to Medium on August 22, 2022. Please read it on Medium. It's a 7-minute read.

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Laura Jedeed deployed twice to Afghanistan in 2008–2010 when, she reflects in 2021, "it was already obvious that the Taliban would sweep through the very instant we left. And here we are today." Thus: "finally you have to face the thing Afghanistan has always been. You can’t keep lying to yourself about what you sent us into. ... No more pretending it meant anything. It didn’t. It didn’t mean a goddamn thing." More challenging still: "I am Team Get The Fuck Out Of Afghanistan which, as a friend pointed out to me today, has always been Team Taliban. It’s Team Taliban or Team Stay Forever. There is no third team."

And this podcast episode by Chris Hayes about 2022 Russian propaganda alleging U.S. bioweapons in Ukraine:

(A Washington post article, too, on the same topic.)

"Senate votes to repeal Iraq War power authorizations, 20 years after US invasion." CNN, March 29, 2023.

"America has been the anchor for global stability, such as it is, since the end of the Second World War and the leader of the world's democracies. And I hope that isn't coming to an end, but if not, it's certainly going through a very difficult stretch. ...to the extent that it [still] works — I'm talking about global trade, I'm talking about countries getting along together, I'm talking about flows of money — all of that works in an architecture that was created by the United States at the end of the Second World War. We still have that and it still works and it's still in place, and it's an American creation and it's American-led. And so before kissing it goodbye, I hope we come up with an idea of what we would replace it with."
— Dexter Filkins, interviewed by Anand Giridharadas, "America’s forever wars, at home and abroad," The Ink, Feb 13, 2024

Image: A Civil Affairs Officer gives candy to children
Location: Kubaysah, Iraq, for Operation Moon River, Dec. 31, 2005
Image by: United States Marine Corps, ID 051231-M-4657S-010
© public domain Wikimedia Commons

Protesters of the U.S.-led 'war on terror' accused the US of genocide

I remember it.

Folks, a friendly reminder that there are lots of terrific historians at NYU, but this professor of marketing absolutely is not one of them.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) Apr 24, 2024 at 8:11 AM

just finished gary wills’ “Bomb Power” and the chapters on the dubya administration are a good reminder of a) the horror show of those years and b) the remarkable fact that in an administration of degenerates, john yoo stands apart as the absolute worst

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social) Jun 30, 2024 at 11:17 AM

for example, wills details how yoo tried to argue that the president has an exclusive power to enter the country into war because the “declare” in Article I’s “Congress shall have the power to declare war” actually means that Congress shall have the power to *notify* the country of war.

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social) Jun 30, 2024 at 11:34 AM

if someone tried to pass this off on me i would smack the shit out of them for wasting my time

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social) Jun 30, 2024 at 11:34 AM

See also: John Yoo's "War Powers": The Law Review and the World, Janet Cooper Alexander, California Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 2, Centennial Tribute Issue (April 2012), pp. 331-364 (34 pages)

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