Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.

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  • RubberDuckEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    Absolutely, and I’m plenty entitled to my opinion.

    In my original post I purposefully did not specify my opinion on which is worse as I fully understand that choosing one as more evil over the other is subjective and depends on your perspective and priorities.

    Squid asked a question, fully expecting my answer to be as it was, in order to perform a gotcha. And I’m not interested in having a slapfight on which country is more evil… as the list of horribleness for each of the countries is so sickeningly long.

    But in the end both countries are hellholes, tthat I would not wish my worst enemy to live in.

    Edit: I’m just sad that this leads to downvotes.

    • @Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -1•1 month ago

      Your original post literally contains “one is bad and the other is way worse”. You started out from a non-neutral position. Then people called you out, and you got defensive saying that you aren’t going to go into “who’s worse”. Which again, you already did. There is no slapfight without your subjective opinion being unbalanced in the first place.

      • RubberDuckEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        I left it to the reader to fill in which is which… the definition of neutral. You also think one is worse than the other and fill in the names different than me.

        So calling me out in this case means: looking for a slapfight. And you are too. Thanks but no thanks, I’ll quit this thread now.

        • @Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          Nope, you literally implied “one is bad - Saudis, the other one is worse - Iran”. That’s why you got called out.