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2 years agoThe baath party was originally socialist, secular and pan arab. We helped Saddam take it over in Iraq and turn it into what it became but it was still secular and pan-arab when we deposed him so it makes sense the ghouls dismantled it rather than try to coopt it.
I don’t think comparing it to fascists in another part and time of the world is that useful.
The way we empowered Isis OTOH…