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1. meowface · 1790666255 · focus · HN ↗

   Why is this article written like an op-ed, despite being Reuters?

   I am not even necessarily disagreeing with it (I lean very anti-Iran and slightly geopolitically neoconservative) but the tone is not at all neutral and makes no mention of the possible downsides of troops staying in Iraq after decades.

   1. latexr · 1790668456 · focus · HN ↗

      > I lean (…) slightly geopolitically neoconservative

      We have too many labels. That’s not good for a species which hates others based on different labels.

      Edit: I should’ve expressed that this was a general thought triggered by the comment but it’s not a direct criticism of the person making it.

      1. meowface · 1790669112 · focus · HN ↗

         I don't support the Iran War but I do support global US hegemony because I believe the other two possible candidates, China and Russia, would be worse. And I think retaliation against Iran for their massacre of protesters was morally warranted, even if that was only a pretext for the war by Trump rather than an actual moral consideration, and even if moral merit alone does not justify major intervention or war.

         "Slightly geopolitically neoconservative" is the short way to describe that.

         1. Huarache1 · 1790721871 · focus · HN ↗

            Global Hegemony shouldn't exist. The Chinese are right (even if they are using this fact against the U.S.) that there shouldn't be a single world power police, and the very existence of such a thing feels like a dramatic, geopolitical failiure for everyone else.

            1. meowface · 1790770828 · focus · HN ↗

               In an ideal world, that would be true.

               1. Huarache1 · 1790811879 · focus · HN ↗

                  It's not an ideal, we're returning to a Multi-polar world not unlike the 15th century where that was the case.

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