08-11-2017, 09:49 AM
(08-11-2017, 09:25 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: Without going through and counting (because I am lazy), I'm going to assume that there is not really a comparison. We clearly lost a lot more troops in Iraq over the course of our involvement there. But Iraq WMD was also a Bush Jr./Cheney boondoogle, not a Trump screw-up.
The Trump Admin really hasn't done a lot of killing so far (outside of supporting taking away folks' insurance). They bombed an airfield, after they sent a warning for everyone to "get out and run away!". They dropped "the Mother-of-All-Bombs" in Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The Afghans reported 94 ISIS-type individuals were killed in that blast. They sent some special-ops dudes into Yemen, which got a SEAL killed.
Obama was able to kill 2,160 islamic militants and 67 civilians in drone strikes in Pakistan alone from 2008 to 2013. It looks like the Trumpies need to up their game if they want to keep up with "wimpy Obama"!
I was looking at it from the angle of how many people did the US kill in Iraq over a pack of lies vs. how many people did North Korea kill during those incursions. I would wager the US is responsible for more deaths in just that one country since 2003 than North Korea since 1953.
Many Americans fail to see how our actions affect our international standing. Pointing out someone's hands are covered in blood is a really ineffective tactic when the hand doing the finger pointing is dripping blood.
