Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows" video.

  1. This video is so utterly ridiculous. Does the Muslim world have no agency of their own? How did the US start the war in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia? These were simply wars the US became involved in, often very minimally. The US was hands off on Syria for years, in fact. Yet we give pocket change to one side and suddenly everyone who dies is our fault?
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  2. Did the US start the wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia? No, the US just gives pocket change to one side and all the sudden the whole war is our fault. It's like how during the Iraq War people were saying we armed Saddam, even though the US only provided 1% of his weaponry according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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  3. This is utterly ridiculous. You are acting like the Muslim world has no agency of their own. It's one thing to blame the US for the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan (although Afghanistan was at war, Northern Alliance vs. Taliban, before the US invaded). But Syria? Yemen? Pakistan? The US waited years before even getting involved in Syria. Yet all we have to do is give pocket change to one side of a conflict and all of the sudden the entire war is our fault. Freaking amazing.
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  4. Most of these are conflicts the US didn't start and was barely involved in. This study is like if someone finds out Iceland gave 5 million dollars in aid to one side in WWII, either side, and then declares "80 million people have been killed in Iceland's wars."
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  5. It shows pathological anti-Americanism is still deeply entrenched in the left. This videos premise is ridiculous beyond words. It's simply taking every war in the Muslim world that happened since 9/11 that the US was involved in any capacity, no matter who started it and how little our involvement, and blaming us for every death. It would be like finding out Iceland sent 20 tanks to either side in WWII, and then blaming them for the deaths of 80 million people.
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  6. This study is simply blaming America for every death in every conflict we were in any way involved in, no matter who started it or how small our involvement. Just like people do with Latin America and Africa. Using the tactics of this study, I could blame Mexico for tens of millions of deaths too.
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  7. Yes, because it shows how pathological anti-Americanism is still so deeply entrenched in the left. The premise of this video is beyond ridiculous. It's taking every war in the Muslim world the US has been involved in, no matter how small our involvement or who started the war, and blaming us for every death. You might as well blame Mexico for every death in WWII.
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  8. This is so unbelievably ridiculous. The US gives pocket change to some rebel group or army in the Middle East and all of the sudden we are responsible for everyone who dies in their wars? The US waited years before even intervening in Syria. Yemen was overwhelmingly a fight between Islamic countries, the US had very little involvement. Etc. This is so disingenuous.
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  9. You mean incredible anti-Americanism. This is simply taking every war in he Islamic World the US has been involved in the past 20 years and pinning every death on us, no matter who started, no matter how little we were involved. The disingenuity is breath-taking.
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  10.  @Tomy-im8zl  Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, Syria, in other words everything except Afghanistan and Iraq. The US waited years before getting involved in Syria. Pakistan is a fight between the Taliban and the Pakistani government. Libya was a local uprising that the US simply aided (it was mostly France anyway). Yemen is 99% of a fight between Muslim countries, etc.
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  11. This is so utterly ridiculous. The US gives pocket change to some army or rebel group in some country and all of the sudden we're told we started the war and everything is our fault. "The wars the Unites States waged". How disgustingly disingenuous. It was Syrians who decided to rebel against Assad, the US waited years before even getting involved. The US was barely involved in Yemen, this was 99% a war between Islamic nations. Etc. Yet its all "the wars the US waged" because the Muslim world has no agency of its own. By the way, Afghanistan was at war before the US invaded: the Taliban vs. Northern Alliance.
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