From Charlie Savage's review of Steve Coll's new book, The Achilles Trap, in the NYRB digital issue, online, coming out in print in the issue of 9/19/24:
"The United States turned a blind eye to and at times actively helped obfuscate Iraq’s use of poison gas—an internationally banned weapon of mass destruction—against both Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villages; in Coll’s assessment, from 1984 to 1988 the US “not only accepted but also effectively collaborated with Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons” "
"According to a study by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the two decades of warfare in Iraq and Syria cost American taxpayers some $2.9 trillion, counting military operations, humanitarian assistance, and costs like veterans’ care and interest on the portion of the national debt attributable to direct wartime spending. "
"About half a million Iraqis and Syrians were killed."
"the fact that Iraq’s parliament in 2022 exercised its democracy by passing a law that prohibits Jews from joining the Iraqi military or having public sector jobs and imposes penalties up to a death sentence on activities promoting the normalization of relations with Israel."
So, please, you smug, whiney fucking assholes, please tell us again how Israel is a uniquely, criminal apartheid state, worthy of BDS, and is committing genocide on an unheard scale (ooh, but The Intercept).
Oh, but it's your tax dollars - globalize the intifada!. And then these guys are proud of having served in the American military? Ignorant whiney fucking assholes!
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