I always thought our spectacularly botched and entirely unnecessary destruction of Iraq was our version of the Peloponnesian disaster that led to the demise of the Greek civilization. That it was a fatal clicking of gears towards our own demise. This is after, of course five decades of our savagely hypocritical embrace of fascist dictators all around the globe under the guise of anti-communism, which had already weakened the American ideal to the point of meaninglessness..
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I always thought our spectacularly botched and entirely unnecessary destruction of Iraq was our version of the Peloponnesian disaster that led to the demise of the Greek civilization. That it was a fatal clicking of gears towards our own demise. This is after, of course five decades of our savagely hypocritical embrace of fascist dictators all around the globe under the guise of anti-communism, which had already weakened the American ideal to the point of meaninglessness..
posted 2025.01.29
posted on January 29th 2025
