A fun fact is that one of the major causes of the Texas Revolution is taught as "concern of immigration of Anglo-Americans" but one of the major reasons for THAT is that the Mexican govt of the time disapproved of slavery while the white Texans really wanted to own slaves.
So the white Texans seceded and fought the Texas revolution and then made slavery legal. This fact was NOWHERE in the Alamo museum that I could find when I visited. Instead it is all framed as "white Texans didn't want the centralist Mexican government curtailing their rights".
My new conspiracy theory is that the PMF militias at the US Embassy were there with the cooperation of the Iraqi government as a calculated, escalated response to the bombing of PMF sites within their territory, without clearance from the Iraqis.
The PMF have legitimate (if problematic) status in the Iraqi government and the Iraqi government does not have the strength to get rid of them. And CJTF-OIR's stated mission is to counter ISIS, not the PMF.
Iraq was pissed that we shifted the mission to a counter-Iran/PMF strike.
Now. The protests. Here's the thing - in October the Iraqi government spent a lot of effort and killed a lot of people to keep protestors out of the neighborhood where the US Embassy is located.
@ThomasJTobin1 When I was a kid my Catholic bishop rotated four known child molesters through my hometown parish. At least two molested more kids while stationed there. He then fought against removing child molesters from their parish positions at the Bishops conference in 2002.
@ThomasJTobin1 Later he fought against the NY state legislature relaxing the statute of limitations so victims could come forward later in life and see their accusers face justice.
But anyway please tell me more about the Catholic Church's philosophy on what is harmful to children.
@ThomasJTobin1 I just remember turning on the TV, turning it to channel 3, which was CSPAN, which was the television station we flipped to in order to prepare the VCR (I was going to pop in some movie), and there was Bishop Howard Hubbard arguing against removing sex offenders.