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‘Worst foreign policy blunder in decades’: Republicans turn on Trump over Iran deal
(www.the-independent.com)
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Plenty of people will happily argue that Operation Desert Storm was a shitshow. Just ask all the veterans with "Gulf War Syndrome". Or the millions of starving Iraqis that incentivized the "Oil for Food" program (itself an enormous swindle). Similarly, if you crack open Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States", he's got some hard truths to drop about the US intervention in Kosovo and Serbia. For that matter, it's worth interrogating why Yugoslavia disintegrated so quickly to begin with (TL;DR; perestroika).
And then you've got Korea, which I would argue is the gold standard for "Failed US Wars" even relative to the current Iran cockup. MacArthur runs laps around Pete Hegseth when it comes to disastrous military adventurism.
Even the Bush Afghan/Iraq Wars are bigger blunders by sheer volume. Hard to compete with a 23 year long calamity inside a mere four months. We did not - blessedly - turn Iran into a narco-state that sent thousands of tons of cheap heroin into the veins of western allied nations for decades on end. We do not appear to have created a new ISIS by engaging in de-IRGC-ization. We killed tens of thousands of people rather than millions of people.
Coulda been way worse.
Nobody is worse at military operations than Pete Hegseth, nobody.
As for the rest, too tired to argue.
I would be hard pressed to name a military command more disastrous than MacArthur's decision to invade China.