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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Were the wars bad for the US? They were bad for everyone else, but they worked out pretty well for the US overall. Sure, some poor people who joined the army because they had no other viable options died fighting for the US, but that's never been a big concern for Americans.
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It's a debate that I'm sure could go multiple pages long, but I'd consider the ~$2T cost of the Iraq invasion, the change in attitude about America around the world, the degradation in trustworthiness of their leaders for pulling their allies into a war on a lie, and the numerous polls of the American public who disagree that the invasion made Americans safer, just to name a few things, would point to the invasion being bad for the US.