The callous disregard for life & well-being of the people of Iraq especially during the occupation has no excuse. Iraqi lives didn't matter.
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Pre-2001 Taliban sprung up in the dismal refugee camps in Pakistan, lives & families destroyed, unbalanced by the Soviet war & occupation.
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Don’t forget the disastrous early withdrawal and power vacuum.
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No pulling out did, and going to war without knowing geopolitics of the region.
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@rich1@paulwaugh Blair and Bush et. al. are war criminals. 100s of 1000s died. They destroyed a country & caused a sectarian war.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes, difference in outcome partly shaped by attitude, partly by approach to occupation. Paddy Ashdown interesting on this re Bosnia.
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Ba'athism was developed in the 1920s. But I take your point re the Sunni-Shia split.
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Anti-semitism is that old. Protestant/Catholic split is also hundreds of years old and arguably caused more deaths.
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absolutely. It created a power vacuum, that was quickly filled by the people that understood how to use the situation.
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