Note: I am not asking my question here, so please do not answer it. I am merely asking for a good lemmy/kbin community in which I can ask it and receive respectful responses. The answers to this question should be pointing me to a community where I can ask the question.
Okay, maybe there are stupid questions.
2003 in the United States wasn’t anything like Russia is today. Americans were more concerned with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, The Station night club fire, and seeing Finding Nemo in theaters. The backlash to the Iraq War occurred several years later as the fallout from firing everyone in the Iraqi military led to an insurgency that lasted for a decade.
Only a tiny part of the nation was upset by the war in 2003 and it wasn’t obvious at the time where the failures were. Unlike Russia, the U.S. Military operation was properly planned out and executed. Losses were light on both sides and all objectives were achieved. Then the Bush Administration screwed up the peace and put our military in the impossible position of fighting a insurgency because the nation’s economy was destroyed and the population was out of work. Had the Bush Administration not fired the Iraqi military ISIS would have never risen and we would have transitioned out of Iraq by 2005.
As another point, consider the US lost 4,507 troops over the course of 2003-2011 in Iraq while Russia has already lost over 200,000 troops in Ukraine in 2022-2023. The scale of Russia’s problem in Ukraine vastly surpasses what the US was dealing with in Iraq.
Absolutely as a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq I saw first hand the mistakes that were made.
With a question that loaded you’re going to need lemmygrad.ml for the answer you’re looking for.
!history@lemmy.ml, I’d say
Thank you!
Lemmygrad, if you want only the spiciest takes
This question negates the name of the community.
Try out ‘Credible Defense@sh.itjust.works’
