Nice cost-benefit analysis there, Bill.
I suppose it was ok for us to back Saddam versus Iran, despite WMD and all that stuff, because those dirty Iranians "held American hostage" for a year, though they didn't actually kill anybody. Only a few hundred thousand died in that one, where we backed the aggressor, sunk the better part of the Iranian navy, and shot down a civilian jet, that latter with all kinds of timely propaganda about how it was actually all their fault, quietly admitted as false later.
Then there's Afghanistan, where we cheered while a few tens of thousands Soviet conscripts and a cool million or so Afghans died, while we nurtured "the moral equivalent of the founding fathers".
Somehow, on the body count level, all the sanctimonious moral posturing leaves me a bit cold. There's a few other cold war operations where the body count went into 6 or 7 figures, but they weren't, in general, Americans, so it doesn't much matter. |
