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Matlyesterday at 12:48 PM1 replyview on HN

> Libya was Europe's idea.

Hardly 'Europe's', it was the idea of some 'humanitarian interventionists' in the Obama admin and the then current president of France who wanted to cover up his corrupt dealings.

For what it's worth, I am not a fan of NATO either, so we can agree on that. All US troops should imo immediately leave Europe and loose all access to military facilities on the continent.

As for the whole warmongers thing, answer me two simple questions:

1. Was the 2003 Iraq war started based on false claims about WMDs? Yes/No?

2. Did you just attack Iran for no good reason? (Yes/No?)


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0xDEAFBEADyesterday at 1:06 PM

>Hardly 'Europe's', it was the idea of some 'humanitarian interventionists' in the Obama admin and the then current president of France who wanted to cover up his corrupt dealings.

You can see French and UK leadership were making moves before the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...

Obama's approach was referred to as "leading from behind".

>For what it's worth, I am not a fan of NATO either, so we can agree on that. All US troops should imo immediately leave Europe and loose all access to military facilities on the continent.

I'm glad we can agree on something. I find that a lot of Europeans are not willing to accept the logical implication of their stated beliefs.

>As for the whole warmongers thing, answer me two simple questions: [...]

I'm not sure why you're pushing this "warmongers" point. As I said, I'm an isolationist. I've left many comments here on HN about how I want the US to be more like Switzerland. The Swiss never do anything and thus they never get blamed for anything.

The families of the thousands of Iranians slaughtered by the regime doubtless think that we are attacking Iran for a good reason. Same way the thousands of Ukrainians slaughtered by Russia probably thought our weapons deliveries were being given for a good reason.

In any case we may be called "complicit" if we do not act -- the same arguments were used in the case of Libya. But we can't keep playing world police. We aren't very good at it, and it is not clear whether it is helpful. Not to mention the dubious ethics of getting involved in the affairs of other countries.

You're either "complicit" in "propping up" bad regimes, or a "warmongering" "imperialist" who "destabilizes" them. There's no way to win. Given the choice, I prefer to be complicit.

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