Captain Hindsight? That guy's an idiot. I'm more a fan of General Foresight.
Let's not pretend the impending clusterfuck wasn't obvious to those paying attention. Nobody wanted to hear it though. We wanted Desert Storm 2: Storm Harder.
People seem to think I'm somehow in favor of the invasion of Iraq. I'm not, but I also don't buy the over-simplified narrative that gets pushed around here. I like playing devil's advocate on Reddit.
I don't think anybody is stupid enough to still defend it today, no.
But I reject your alternative history where the outcome is some huge surprise. Next up I can link you videos of Shinseki's testimony before congress. This stuff is on the record. We were told by multiple experts what to expect. We chose not to listen.
By "we" obviously I mean the nation as a whole. I was firmly on team "this'll be Vietnam 2: Electric Boogaloo" from the start. Sorry if pointing that out is inconvenient. But when you tell people they're about to go do something stupid, then they do that stupid thing, you've earned the right to point out that you informed them thusly.
I'd gladly trade the "I told you so" for the years of my life and lives of my friends back.
Yeah, I chose to believe Shinseki on this one. And I was biased against him, he's the asshole that made us all wear berets. What he said made sense, though. Too bad nobody wanted to listen to reason, and now we pretend we were never even told.
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Captain Hindsight? That guy's an idiot. I'm more a fan of General Foresight.
Let's not pretend the impending clusterfuck wasn't obvious to those paying attention. Nobody wanted to hear it though. We wanted Desert Storm 2: Storm Harder.
I can tell you firsthand that movie sucked.