Reply #32: I see the Iraq invasion as a continuation of all the "mistakes"

[Solly Mack]

America has made.

Because the root of all of America's crimes, and Iraq is a crime, has been the notion of superiority in some form or another. The need to control. Arrogance. Prejudice. Greed.


Slavery/Genocide of Natives
Slavery/Genocide of Africans brought to America
Institutional racism
Institutional sexism
Robber Barons/workers
Denying the vote
The very real class warfare
Corporations over people
McCarthyism
South/Central American policy
Iran-Contra
Iraq

and all the things I didn't mention

All those things stem from the same attitudes - and America, when her worst is allowed to reign freely, can be a very ugly nation.

Militarily? Iraq was and remains monumentally stupid.
As a foreign policy initiative? (TGWOT) Iraq is a blunder of mythic proportions
Long term strategic interests? America will be doing a lot of mollifying for years to come to make up for it.

But I still see Iraq as a continuation of the worst of America.