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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Even in the unlikely scenario that Iranians eventually get a government they want, it still doesn't mean the US decision to go to war was a wise one. The track record of these types of interventions in the Middle East isn't a good one, and the results always seem to be decades of instability and carnage.
Then you add on top of that the amount of civilian lives lost in the fighting, the soldiers killed in combat, the destruction of infrastructure, the immense cost to US taxpayers... not to mention the destabilization of the Middle East as a whole, and other risks such as the rise of terror groups like ISIS...
No, there really is no honest way you can justify this war, IMO.
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If there is a government who takes over that the people of Iran choose, you don’t think this will be a success?
Soldiers killed in combat and civilian lives lost are both terrible things. We can all agree on that. You have to weigh in the 30,000 ~ 50,000 civilians recently killed by the Regime. There is a really good chance that that would have happened again. Probably why quite a few citizens in Iran supported outside intervention. That could be a justification for the war.