Sounds like a lot of American Millenials haven't studied history or learned critical thinking. My point of view is that the Iraq War was caused by Saddam Hussein trying to Assassinate George W. Bush's father. So, the collateral damage is caused by a son taking revenge on the man who tried to assassinate his father when he was president I believe.
Though it is possible to now blame 1/2 million to 1 million deaths and refugees on these actions I don't think that is really useful in the short or long run. But, it could be said also that ISIS never would have come into existence if either Saddam Hussein or Qadhaffi were still alive and in power. So, maybe the best way to see this is the U.S. and Europe have no idea at all what they are really doing in the Middle East short or long term. I think this has been true already for about 200 or more years there already. The middle east is not at all like Europe or the U.S. because it is still mostly tribal and not as nationalistic as Europe and the U.S. are. So, to treat them like they are nationalistic like Europe and the U.S. is the biggest mistake I see still happening there caused by Europe, Russia, the U.S. , China and everyone else interested in Middle Eastern Oil.
An
annual report released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
found that one-third of millennials think former President George W.
Bush is responsible for more killings than Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
The body …
A
survey conducted the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found
that one-third of millennials think former President George W. Bush is
responsible for more death than Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. (Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation) more >
By Douglas Ernst -
The Washington Times -
Monday, October 17, 2016
An annual report released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
found that one-third of millennials think former President George W.
Bush is responsible for more killings than Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
The
body count of Stalin’s victims before and after World War II is
estimated by scholars to be anywhere between 20 million to 60 million
people, but roughly 33 percent of young Americans still seem to think
Mr. Bush’s time in the White House was deadlier.
The nonprofit organization’s survey turned up other troubling data as well. Some of the opinions held by millennials include:
21 percent said they would vote for a communist.
25 percent viewed Vladimir Lenin favorably.
33 percent were unfamiliar with Lenin.
42 percent were unfamiliar with Mao Zedong.
42 percent of millennials viewed capitalism favorably.
Lee Edwards, co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told
The Daily Signal on Monday that such “widespread ignorance” of
communism’s history was the impetus for the organization’s creation in
the 1990s.
“Ronald Reagan said that ‘freedom is never more than
one generation away from extinction,’ ” said Mr. Edwards, a
distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think
tank. “It is the solemn obligation of this generation to educate the
rising generation about the manifold victims and crimes of the
deadliest ism of the last 100 years — communism.”
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