> Of course that was because the USSR was an evil empire with an out of control military, a bloated sense of it's own importance and a paranoia about foreigners.
Wait, are you implying that that is now the US, or should I make that implication?
As someone from a country with a long history of imperial aggression, bloated sense of self-importance and paranoia of foreigners you have to call it as you see it, and that's what the US is today.
To be fair, we British have pretty good form on doing terrible things to Afghanistan, and it wasn't exactly a source of pleasantness when we all went in this time round.
While I accept the original mission was justified for the US, I have absolutely no idea what we were doing in Iraq other than empire-building.
Wait, are you implying that that is now the US, or should I make that implication?