Carey Wedler — What you're not being told about the conflict with Iran...
Not wanting to waste trillions of dollars and countless human lives on another unwinnable regime-change war doesn't mean I hate freedom. It means I distrust all governments and their high-horse claims to care about humanity while they destroy it.
...Maybe you’re cheering the death of the Iranian general because he was behind the attack on the U.S. embassy. Aside from the fact that his militia was integral in beating back ISIS, there never would have been an attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq in the first place if they hadn’t been conducting a failed, bloody war there for 17 years, helping create ISIS in the first place.
In fact, considering America’s track record with military intervention, and even if governments did have the right to invade other sovereign nations (they don’t), the U.S. would still be the worst possible option to lead this effort. Iraq. Afganistan. Libya. Yemen. I’m not saying these countries didn’t already have problems of their own, but America’s bombings and invasions have obliterated their homelands and destroyed human life, all without actually achieving the intended goal of stopping terrorism. Terror attacks in Iraq increased after the U.S. invasion. ISIS grew directly because of U.S. failures there, in addition to U.S. allies propping them up. Al-Qaeda grew early on because the U.S. just had to undermine the Soviets in Afghanistan by supporting the Mujahideen. The Taliban still controls the majority of land there after 18 years of war.
You can’t decry the violent aggression of one country when you’re calling for it on behalf of your own. You can’t claim to have the moral high-ground when you rationalize war crimes and empire.




















