Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Is America in Decline?" video.

@GreenBlueWalkthrough They would've had even less of a country if America had kept fighting. Ask the Libyans, Iraqis, and Afghanis what they think of US involvement. A dictator is preferable to total civil war. America, unfortunately, sees geopolitics as a sport, rather than a practical reality— though that it changing thanks to China.
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@RogerwilcoFoxtrot Oh, you mean one of the thousands whose non-Taliban families were lucky enough not to be killed in a bombing campaign? You're right, it will resurge when it happens- that's why Western powers need to stay out of its affairs and let the matter fizzle out. That includes the Soviets, who triggered the creation of the Taliban. As for Iraq, their territory, like Afghanistan's, has few natural assets, like rivers or arable land. What little they do have is controlled by Turkey, with the Tigris and Euphrates originating in Anatolia. They need a practical, if brutal leader to keep society together and negotiate with foreign powers if it is to develop independently. Preferably secular. If only there were a leader like that... OH, WAIT. There was, and the Yanks killed him. And oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was speaking with the ambassador for Iraq and Afghanistan! My Persian friend mourns the loss of secularism in Iraq after the Revolution but doesn't realize that the Shah was just as oppressive to the religious, and sold Iran's natural resources to the UK for cheap. Just because 2 people who moved to the U.S. don't like a current regime, doesn't mean the people don't. If you want to sling around anecdotes, though, consider what the man who put the Iraqi flag on Saddam's statue had to say 15 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9wC6W7EJpg
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