The US never was good. They never built a nation any more than the brits built australia. They colonised it.

Ah yes because white liberal democracy are actually at the forefront of progress /s

Did that occur to you that the people who fled with the occupiers might not be a representative set of the population?

Every decolonisation had their set of traitors fleeing.

war? they were genocided by the people currently bombing iran, fuckhead

Better use internet slang as a mechanism of defense about a fellow human telling you to your face you're an evil person innit? TanKie TroLL

Yea my french grandma told me what the GIs did to her city at "liberation". Quit eating propaganda. You guys pillaged and plundered just as much as them.

The marshall plan was a colonisation plan and we still live under it. Belgium also spent shitload of money to "develop" congo.

Of course the US should foot the bill. In kind. They certainly shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Iran nor anywhere else they destroyed.

And that's also worthy for afghanistan

This ain't highschool debate club sweetie.

The debate is weather occupying afghanistan would have been justified. You say yes, I say no. Nor was it justified to occupy western europe after the war. Or japan.

no sorry, my bad. You wanted to colonize afghanistan. I was just a few hundred miles off

Beside, you literally wish for afghanistan "multiple generations of occupation, in order to permanently impact the culture through ideological immersion" (your words). How is that not colonisation? Quit contradicting yourself

ah yes and I guess the UK colonized India to civilise them, out of sheer charity? "Open new market" = force them to use the colonizers services and industry. Quit being fucking naive. Hell the US is still forcing us to buy their shitty planes. The US killed left-wing politicians. The US empowered nazis in intelligence services so we wouldn't grow too close to the USSR.

Of course the US should foot the bill. In kind. They certainly shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Iran nor anywhere else they destroyed.