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The Iraq/Afghanistan 'Liberation' Pitch
from 9/11, Netanyahu, & Artificial Annihilation | The Tim Dillon Show #512 · #512
3 min
Tim describes the post-9/11 foreign policy consensus of spreading democracy and liberating oppressed peoples in the Middle East, and how he personally bought into supporting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at the time.
- Tim supported the Iraq and Afghanistan wars based on the pitch that liberation, democracy, and Western infrastructure would naturally follow removing oppressive leaders.
- The vision included shopping malls, movie theaters, banks, and houses—a happily-ever-after outcome where locals would thank America for the intervention.
- Elite institutions and all major media outlets were aligned on this narrative, with foreign policy experts and think tanks universally promoting the necessity of toppling regimes.
- The justification was presented as beneficial for both societies and America itself—with the implicit understanding that the U.S. would extract resources like oil, minerals, lithium, and poppies as compensation.
- President Bush later acknowledged that America learned the wrong lessons from 9/11, suggesting the entire framework was fundamentally flawed from the start.