Jack Albrecht
1 min readOct 2, 2023

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If my read of history is "creative" then yours is both riddled with amnesia and delusion.

The brutal war against Iran by Iraq was fully supported by the US. We were supplying Iraq with the weapons in that war. Here is Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

Libya did not bomb itself. We did that with the French and English.

Syria did not bomb itself. We did that. We - the US - are currently occupying - illegally - 1/3 of Syria.

Iraq did not bomb itself. Nor did Afghanistan. We did that. Yemen did not bomb itself. We provide Saudi Arabia with the bombs, planes and military support to destroy that country.

I don't deny the brutal governments of Middle East, including those listed above and adding Israel, Egypt, Oman, the UAE and Jordan. The fact is that without US providing funding and arms, political disagreements would more likely than not remain at the verbal level. We - the US - provide the means for verbal arguments to turn into bloody conflicts.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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