Sorry, I cared about this 20 years ago, but don’t any more. This was a mistake, and it made the conservatives take their eyes off the ideological battleground inside the US at the crucial moment when liberals were ramping up their institutional infiltration.
In balancing the lives lost (8,000 American service and contractors; 280,000 civilian Iraqis); the immense cost (at least $ 3 billion); the disappearance of the 10 percent of the Iraqi population that was Christian; the reorientation of the country from an enemy to an ally of Iran; and for many other reasons, I really don’t believe it was at all balanced or justified by the fact that this individual can walk back to his home again in West Baghdad without fear. Try to say that about now living in NYC, SFO or Chicago.
Ukraine’s are white so they count—so it seems. Arabs don’t count—they dress funny and are easy to kill. We may discover that Russians are not so easy to kill in battle.