(April 25, 2017 at 10:45 am)Minimalist Wrote: The problem is that in Afghanistan and Iraq we went in, overran the whole fucking country and then stayed there. Unlike normal conquerors we don't go in, kill a metric fuckton of people, steal whatever we want and leave. We stay there and want them to love us.
The US Army says "We Love You A Long Long Time."
I don't really think the "normal conquerers" approach would make us any more tolerable to the explosive overcoat crowd, tbh. (Yeah I know you're not advocating for that)
How about we just stop waging aggressive warfare instead? Continuing to squander lives, treasure, and goodwill is not the way to go.