Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "Joe Rogan | What People Get Wrong About War w/Dakota Meyer" video.

  1. This entire video is wrong. All the factions in Afghanistan are vile. "Good and evil" is much too simple. Afghanistan was making substantial progress until the superpowers used it as their arena (the Carter admin tricked the imperialist Soviets from invading). Iraq was a secular regime before 2003. Saddam Hussein's military was not going to get into landing craft and invade the US. Class mobility in the US is at the bottom of the industrialized world. I could go on.
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  2. It looks like you triggered some mall ninjas/Internet Tough Guys. Well done.
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  3.  @shawnheenan9000  Naïve.
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  4. There's a non-stop list of errors in this one video, and that's just one of them.
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  5.  @williambrown7437  No, it's pretty dramatically different.
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  6.  @shawnheenan9000  For a long time, the US government thought that both of them were pretty good.
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  7. Note that WW2 could have been averted also, and people knew it at the time. European (and Asian) antifa fought to prevent the rise of fascism (Spanish Civil War, Antifa vs. Fash street battles all over the place) in the inter-war years, but of course the liberal capitalist governments weren't entirely certain that fascists were that bad, and the USSR didn't trust any leftist movements they didn't control.
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  8. Class mobility in the US is at (or near) the bottom of the industrialized world.
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  9. Never born, never know, never care.
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  10.  @williambrown7437  It's a line from the movie "Hot Shots Part Deux." Also, the wars being discussed here are thoroughly unnecessary.
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  11.  @shawnheenan9000  I don't call the government "we," but anyway, like all the other gangsters the US has supported and currently supports, serving DC's purposes is seen as a Good Thing. The invasion of Kuwait was of course aggressive, but let's remember: Hussein had been told by Ambassador April Glaspie that the US had no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts; he had a case that the Kuwaitis were slant-drilling under the border; Iraq had battled Iran on behalf of the Arab world and suffered mightily from it, yet Kuwait et al were trying to extort money from a severely indebted Iraq; and Kuwait never should have been carved out of Iraq to reward the Al-Sabah family to begin with. It all adds up to a genuine crime under international law, but the toppling of the Kuwaiti dictatorship (and supposedly threatening the Saudi dictatorship) was Arab business, and no threat to the world at large, let alone the US!
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  12.  @sportsbettingeducation  You do know about alternatives to incarceration, right?
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  13.  @frontdeskstaff9359  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_imprisonment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement Start there.
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  14. Into invading. Not "from."
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