Saddam Hussein was obviously a murderous psychopath, albeit one who held tight enough reign to mostly subordinate the other psychopaths in the area, so you can ask the question about our culpability in switching that trolley onto a new set of tracks.
Now of course the bullets were inspired by a guy pulling a trigger, the guy pulling the trigger was inspired by the civil war (more specifically to name one example, the the ISIS-Kurdish one in the northern region of Iraq and Syria), the civil war was inspired by the power vacuum, and the power vacuum was inspired by the toppling of Saddam, and the toppling of Saddam was inspired by the USA blowing up the Iraqi regime.
Whether the US is culpable, again, I left as a question. But they did pull the lever for the trolley.
I can’t believe you’d be this dumb. This is well trodden moral philosophy bullshit.
And apparently, it's wrong to just question if the USA might have culpability for the aftermath of that.
No, but that's a fundamentally different question than answering who was actually fighting and who actually carried out the killings.
A very simple distinction if you care to make it. You don't.
I said no such thing, I've never claimed the USA carried out the killings of ISIS.
> US killed far more in Iraq, so might be unrelated.
Of course the United States is to blame for the Civil War, but it did not carry out the killings. If you think that's only a rhetorical difference, I don't know what to tell you.