So you think it is good that we supplied arms to both sides in a bloodbath of a war?
The bloodlust with some here is stunning.
Meanwhile our Constitution is under serious threat by the same people who gave us many of these wars.
“So you think it is good that we supplied arms to both sides in a bloodbath of a war?”
Do I think it was good for us and for the Middle East that the Iran-Iraq war ended in a stalemate, with no great territorial victory for either side? Yes.
The support we did supply, when - at the point we did supply it - helped keep either side from getting an overwhelming advantage. We had no gain in it going on. We hoped they’d see the futility of continuing and quit, which they finally did. That they continued as long as they did was not our goal, nor our doing, nor the basis of any help we gave either side, when we gave it. We wanted them to end in stalemate seeing the war was going to gain them nothing. That’s what happened.