"The Iraq war" as discussed in American public sphere, and the way it is discussed where it actually happened is so so starkly different.
@PaleoGould I just don't really archive it. But the war and the occupation is seen as an unmitigated disaster, tho Saddam was horrible, too.
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@zeynep "it was bad, it's either the same or worse" is the message I've been getting from most of my Middle Eastern friends (Egypt mostly) -
@PaleoGould The theme here is sometimes "we try to impose democracy, it didn't work." Nobody there thinks we brought or imposed democracy. - Show replies
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