Yes, Ilhan Omar sometimes gets unfair criticism. Still, her comments on Western imperialism are absurd.
Standing alongside Bernie Sanders this weekend, Omar observed, "I am beyond honored and excited for a president who will fight against Western imperialism and fight for a just world."
What on Earth is Omar talking about? Western imperialism is dead and buried in 2019, and it has been so since the Suez Crisis of 1956.
Whatever you think about the rights and wrongs of the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the retention of U.S. forces in eastern Syria, those actions did not involve the theft of resources, nor did they impose viceroys on oppressed peoples. Indeed, as evidenced by protests in Iraq and Lebanon, the only imperialists on the march right now are the Iranian imperialists, the ones primarily responsible for those nations' present misery.
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Western Imperialism may refer to us assassinating democratically elected leaders in Chile, sanctioning Socialist countries (Venezuela) to facilitate their collapse so capitalism looks like the better option. It may also refer to us starting wars for oil in Iraq so Halliburton could get government contracts while their ex CEO was out VP. To name a few things.
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