Recently, a *** named "Zai Thought" shared a post about Iraq "turning into a bustling city", which attracted a lot of attention.
However, in the comment section, many people saw the US invasion of Iraq as a symbol of freedom and prosperity to Iraq. These comments make one wonder what is really going on in Iraq.
Reference was made to the change in Iraq's GDP per capita. From 1 in 1990$020,000 shrank to $5,937 in 2022, and these figures clearly reveal the gradual deterioration of Iraq's economic situation.
In fact, Iraq has not become rich, on the contrary, it has become poor. There are also people who use the ** on Douyin as a point of view support.
However, most of these urban scenes are the city of Erbil in the Kurdish-controlled region of Iraq, which was relatively untouched by the 2003 Iraq war. Therefore, it is one-sided to use these bustling areas to represent the situation in Iraq as a whole.
What is even more noteworthy is that some well-known experts and professors have tried to demonstrate the changes that the U.S. invasion has made to Iraq through the comparative method. They compared the bustling area to what it once was, trying to justify the U.S. invasion by superficial resemblance.
However, this logic is wrong, and they ignore the huge gap between rich and poor and the decline of Iraq's economy as a whole. These well-known experts and professors often caricature China's urban-rural disparity, but they apply double standards to Iraq.
They chose to grovel to the invaders, viewing the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a sign of goodwill. Such a biased view is undesirable.
In short, Iraq did not prosper as a result of the US invasion, but rather showed that Iraq's economic situation had deteriorated. We should be wary of those well-known experts and professors who are trying to wash the ground for the US invasion of Iraq, and their crooked tendencies need to be examined.
Although the US invasion of Iraq has become a consensus, we cannot ignore the fact that some experts and professors are trying to wash the ground on this incident. By hyping up the thinking mistakes of the prosperous areas of Iraq through the comparative method, we have revealed the logical errors and double standards of well-known experts and professors.
They ignore the overall economic decline in Iraq and the huge gap between rich and poor, and ignore the suffering of the Iraqi people affected by the war. It is a mistake to wash the ground for the US invasion of Iraq, and we should be vigilant against the existence of such unhealthy tendencies, maintain an objective analysis and evaluation of historical events, and not be influenced by our subjective standpoint.