Quote (ofthevoid @ Apr 20 2022 07:03pm)
I'm just weighing your emotional response here versus your response (at least from what i've seen) to those wars. Take Afghanistan for example, 240k dead since 2001. Russia's Ukraine war is a small fraction of that so far if we're going by body count alone. That's just one war then there's Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Serbia and other smaller scale interventions. And that's in the last 20-25 years or so that list gets massive if you extend it out to after WW2.
Libya: I was against from the beginning.
Syria: I was against getting involved from the beginning.
Yemen: still opposed to the support we lend SA in promoting the civil war, and have been from the beginning.
Serbia, Iraq, & Afghanistan: I admit to having supported each of these at one point in my life to some extent or another. Our actions in Serbia were generally honorable, even if I don't feel that we are the world's policeman. The first Gulf War was justified. The second was not. The extent of our involvement in Afghanistan should have always been "go kill bin Laden and then leave."
I haven't always been a libertarian, I used to be a regular Republican.
This post was edited by Santara on Apr 20 2022 06:48pm