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Originally Posted by blender
You can definitely pick it apart if you want to highlight specific differences in the military actions, but it doesn't change the reality that hundreds of thousands of people were killed. It also doesn't change the fact that in both cases (and US in Vietnam, and Soviet Union in Afghanistan), the military actions were wars of imperialist aggression. Saying that the regimes that were toppled were bad is not relevant to the discussion.
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I don't think it's at all "picking it apart", the reasons why those military forces were present matter a whole lot. The nature of the regimes that were being removed are not irrelevant just because you say so, that's a completely insane position. There is an entire spectrum of degrees of justification for invading a country.
And no, neither the 2nd Iraq war nor the war in Afghanistan by coalition forces were "wars of imperialist aggression", notwithstanding the lies that led to the former and the catastrophic errors in its execution. Frankly, characterizing the latter that way in particular is insulting.