Mourning the Soviet Union
Via Mr Eugenides, I see some total dickhead is asking the sort of question that should be beyond satire:
Would the Bush-Blair partnership have invaded Iraq in 2003 with such brazen impunity if Uncle Stalin, or even Cousin Brezhnev, had been around?
I'd imagine we are supposed to respond with a resounding "no". Unfortunately I can't, for reasons too numerous to relay in detail. So, just a few points here, then:
1. This must be a new definition of impunity, since the Coalition of the Willing have been punished severally, through the loss of troops and international disgrace, whilst Blair's historical reputation has been utterly destroyed by the Iraq "adventure" and Bush left office with the sort of approval ratings that one might expect for Gary Glitter. Sure, no-one has been dragged to the Hague for the Iraq War; but I defy anyone to go to a family who have lost someone in the Iraq War and say that the invasion went ahead with "brazen impunity".
2. Secondly, there are little escapades called the Korean and Vietnam War, as well as a whole host of crazy shit done by the US in South America, that shows even during the Cold War - under Brezhnev as well - the US had no problem with messing with and even invading other nations. And the USSR itself did a little bit of invading... for example, in (wait for it, wait for it!) Afghanistan! The balance between the USA and the USSR did not stop superpowers from invading smaller powers. Their massive nuclear arsenals simply stopped them from having a Third World War against each other.
3. Putin is arguably the strongest leader the USSR has had since Stalin. Yet he couldn't stop the USA and the UK from invading Iraq.
I could go on, but it seems pointless. But just stop for a moment and try this statement out for size. Maybe it would have been best for the Nazi regime to still be in existence, dominating Europe, because they would have stopped the Iraq War. Pretty disgusting statement, eh? Absolutely. Agreed. And not that different from claiming that another brutal dictatorship should be lamented because it too might have stopped the invasion of Iraq.
Labels: Iraq War, Morons, Soviet Union, Witless Morons, Worthless Cunts
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 8:14 am
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But even if Iraq is a cost of no longer having the Soviet Union, isn't that a worthwhile trade-off?
Are the Iraqis living better than under Saddam? I don't know. They're probably freer, but the economy of Iraq seems to be pretty broken. And something like 100,000 of them died as a result of the war (and terrorist actions after).
But let's compare that: something like 400,000,000 people were under oppression during the days of the Soviet Union. Stalin deliberately killed something like 6-7 million people in Ukraine, then there's those killed by communist mismanagement. Somewhere between 700,000 and 2 million civilians were killed in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
It amazes me how much people piss and moan about Iraq as though it's a major global conflict. In the grand scheme of global wars in history, it's a scrap in a pub car park.
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