Moral Philosophy, and some pragmatism

The objective was to install a regime more congenial to North American and European interests, which in the view of the perpetrators included being friendly to Israel. What they got was social collapse and a horrific civil war, followed by a regime more friendly to Iran. There are a couple of points that might make a minor moral distinction between this war crime and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One is that the majority of the Iraq population did want an end to the Saddam Hussein regime, although they invaders didn ' t really understand anything about Iraq and in particular that there wasn ' t any common national identity or aspiration that could quickly lead to the emergence of a stable, less oppressive order. The original intention also was not to stay long or continue to exercise coercive control over the country. These points of difference don ' t make it okay, but they do need to be acknowledged.As I said in the previous post, another difference is that Saddam didn ' t have a friend in the world. Many governments, including notably that of France, did condemn the invasion, but they didn ' t do anything to sanction the U.S. or assist the Iraqi resistance. The only exception was Iran. Once Saddam was gone, Iran did fund and arm a Shiite resistance in Iraq, for which of course the U.S. called them sponsors of terrorism. Attacking American soldiers, on the battlefield, who have invaded and are occupying your country, is considered terrorism by the United States, and ther...
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