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Amy Axler's avatar

Well edited piece just in time for Memorial Day.

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John Jay Stancliff's avatar

Iraq was an experiment done to test the hypothesis that America, sans the old bipolar order it shared with the Soviet Union, could decide foreign policy questions unilaterally with its military, and its test subject was a nation hated by (and indebted to) the House of Saud and Israel. Capital had some to do with it, but leftists hate to admit Halliburton Company cannibalized the US government, taxpayers, and soldiers more than it did Iraqis. Al Qaeda and Halliburton both benefitted as the situation became irreparably worse after 2004. Reverse negative self-hating delusional imperialism of a completely historically unique kind.

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