Reminder

I was reminded this afternoon that you do not have to go back to the Vietnam war for a large scale invasion launched by western powers. There is the much more recent war in Iraq of 2003-2011 (reference 1), led by the US, abetted by the UK, and followed by something more like a civil war 2013-2017 (reference 2).

Excess deaths of Iraqi's 2003-2011 in the hundreds of thousands.

That is not to say that two wrongs make a right. But it does perhaps say that we should not forget our own track record of invasions - as I had.

PS: there is also the rather different Gulf War of 1990-1991.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017).

Reference 3: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-second-war-with-iraq.html. Previous notice.