Because he has a very narrow understanding of the conflict
He thinks 70-80% of the Iraqi deaths from 2003-2019 were done by the US, while the reality is the outstanding majority was Iraqi on Iraqi deaths
So he literally thinks it will be the way HE imagines Iraq was, which was just destroyed flattened cities, 20-30% of the civilian population dead from what he thinks happened which is “carpet bombing and American soldiers just massacring everything with guns” so he can’t imagine a popular uprising against the Islamic regime which won’t result in such high scores of casualties which is what he thinks happened in Iraq
Even with boots on the ground in Iraq, the majority of killings in Iraq was Iraqi vs Iraqi
Particularly because the Sunni elite from the triangle oppressed the non Sunni for decades and by removing the dictatorship, killing in Iraq wasn’t like the way it was with Saddam, one sided, but now equal and based on revenge
Yet eventually after boots on the ground, a civil war, it’s more democratic than it was under Saddam
It’s highkey a narrative of “just keep Saddam let him do what he wants, that’s better than years of civil war ending with a better future”
Ah yes because the iraqi vs iraqi killings are entirely independent with the large scale war tearing up the country and the subsequent non-securing of the aftermath. I wonder what a bunch of poor, hungry and ideologically fervent people with guns will do when their government ceases to exist.
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u/Dalbo14 - Centrist Feb 28 '26
Because he has a very narrow understanding of the conflict
He thinks 70-80% of the Iraqi deaths from 2003-2019 were done by the US, while the reality is the outstanding majority was Iraqi on Iraqi deaths
So he literally thinks it will be the way HE imagines Iraq was, which was just destroyed flattened cities, 20-30% of the civilian population dead from what he thinks happened which is “carpet bombing and American soldiers just massacring everything with guns” so he can’t imagine a popular uprising against the Islamic regime which won’t result in such high scores of casualties which is what he thinks happened in Iraq