They killed and maimed American troops daily, including my boys—Alex Fuller and Mike Balsley—who died Jan. 25, 2007. Still, Sadr’s victory demonstrates just how far off the rails America’s project in Iraq has gone, and it epitomizes the unintended consequences of offensive war and regime change. Let us, then, take a tour of the tragic outcomes unfolding today in each of these victims of U.S.-imposed regime change. So, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, American bombs and paratroopers started falling on the Taliban regime throughout Afghanistan. So that’s the tortured record of American regime toppling and regime “building” in the post-9/11 era.

Source: Libya Today May 23, 2018 01:07 UTC