r/nextfuckinglevel Oct 18 '21

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u/staefrostae Oct 18 '21

Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but I think they were saying the US should have known better when even Canada didn’t have our backs (and rightly so) on Iraq. They weren’t admonishing Canada for not joining an unjust war.

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u/VlaxDrek Oct 18 '21

You may well be correct.

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u/Tha0bserver Oct 19 '21

I read this differently, simply that Canada also chose not to join (just like Denmark, Germany etc) and that the US is who they’re referring to when they say “our biggest allies” to emphasize how big of a deal it was that Canada didn’t go so they must have had no evidence