He convinced one of his enemies, the USA, too eliminate one of his other enemies, Iraq's Sadam Hussein. (Or the US was incompetent enough to do that all by itself, hard for me to be sure).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_and_al-Qaeda_li...

And the Taliban is back in charge of Afghanistan.

> Not to mention the latest wonder from Gaza…it didn’t go down that well, did it?

No, it didn't. On the other hand, it triggered such a response from Israel as to make Israel a pariah in the eyes of many, and attempts at prosecution for genocide — something I have been told motivated some of the Israeli protesters against Netinyahu.

How had it been going up until that point? Very poorly too. The idea that peaceful protests by Palestinians would've changed that would be so awfully naive that I've never even encountered that argument.

It's too easy to forget that even our beloved weekends were only achieved after bloodshed.

The people in power successfully managed to sell us the belief that we can achieve change by sitting on our asses and yelling really loud. If we spend 5 minutes thinking about the current power structures, it's clear that no amount of peaceful protesting will ever achieve any meaningful change.

The only real power we have is to withhold our labor on strikes, and somehow even those need permission (!) to run.