• Dr. JenkemAEnglish
    44·
    1 year ago

    The article opens with “what about America’s response to 9/11?”. JFC, what a shitty justification. America was clearly wrong to war crime all over Iraq just as Israel is in the wrong for warcriming all over Palestine. I refuse to “both sides” imperialists and their victims. Frankly, “both sides” is the trap one should avoid.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Iraq was also a consequence of 9/11. It would never have happened without it.

        • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
          7·
          1 year ago

          Arguable, Iraq was Bush Jr. finishing what his father started in the late 80s. It may well have happened even without 9/11. Afghanistan however was a direct consequence of 9/11, and is a more apt metaphor for what Israel is doing now.

          • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            I think Bush would want to do it, but would never have been able to get the go along without the war fever.

      • Dr. JenkemAEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yes, first was Afghanistan. But the Iraq invasion was still under the “war on terror”. Besides, I was simply referring to the author’s argument:

        But he added that we had to consider what the US did when attacked on 9/11: it invaded Iraq, with 200,000 [his figures] killed in three years.

        • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
          41·
          1 year ago

          Iraq may well have been invaded even without 9/11, as it was Bush Jr. finishing what his father started in the late 80s.

          The direct consequence of 9/11 was Afghanistan, and thus is a more apt metaphor for what is happening with Israel right now.

          • bedrooms@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            There’s no point raising a metaphor in the first place. A metaphor doesn’t justify anything. It’s just a rhetorical tool that is supposed to help deliver a point. However, all it does in this instance is mess and draw confusion.