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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
How The United States Destroyed Iraq
A must-read piece by Iraqi author Sinan Antoon on the destruction of his home country.
Antoon, who always used to be an anti-authoritarian critic of dictator Saddam Hussein, describes how difficult it was to be against the US-led war when it started.
The reason was simple: The majority of the political mainstream in Western countries supported the war.Today, we know where this got us.
The Iraq war is one of the main reasons for the destabilization of the region, including the emergence of ISIS.
"No one knows for certain how many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion 15 years ago. Some credible estimates put the number at more than one million. You can read that sentence again. The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in the United States as a "blunder", or even a "colossal mistake", Antoon writes."
And he also concludes that the whole war was a crime.
