I myself rang the bell as well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30453790
This is what happens when politicians go straight deny military professionals eminence over military strategy just to make a point.
This is what happens when politicians go straight deny military professionals eminence over military strategy just to make a point.
Many people saw through the phony pretenses for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I'm not sure why so much of HN pretends otherwise. I guess they believe that if they were duped, and they're super smart, then surely everyone else must have been duped as well. This couldn't be further from the truth. There were many people calling these wars BS from the start.
Again, this isn't true. You just made it up.
Of course, that didn't happen. The war continued for almost 20 more years. 10 million people still isn't a meaningful-enough protest size to kill the military-industrial complex. The funny thing that's even more to my point: it wasn't the U.S. that held the largest of the protests. The average U.S. citizen does not know, or does not care.