Why were American soldiers in Jordan in the first place? - eviltoast

Everyone is talking about the American soldiers killed in Jordan. But I don’t know why they were there to begin with.

  • One_Honest_Dude@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We overthrew their government and the government we put in power is more friendly toward us. How is that not imperialism?

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      10 months ago

      I’m not denying that we got rid of Saddam. What I’m saying is that the move isn’t as self-serving as many critics try to force. The earlier post is trying to argue that we’ve somehow stolen the resources of Iraq, but no such thing has happened.