>The country is completely broken.

"Iraqis celebrate their comeback with soccer tournament after decades of isolation"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/football/iraq-gulf-cup-comeba...

That was 2023: Iraq hosted the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup, and won the tournament.

I think if you're going to claim that something bad happened to Iraq post-2023, attributing that to the 2003 US invasion is a little dubious. Iraq was also in bad shape before the US invaded! It's a mistake to assume that if any foreign power has had any level of involvement, every bad thing that subsequently happens is therefore the fault of the foreign power.

https://i.imgflip.com/a6ptj6.jpg

>The fact that the dip is so small for both is more a reflection of the dataset. I mean, Gaza is all but completely destroyed, how can the HDI be that high?

Another possibility is that viral news stories are not always a good way to get a representative picture of how life has changed for civilians on the ground.

>Israel is committing a genocide and we are their partners in crime.

If Israel had genocidal intent -- in the sense of attempting extermination of Palestine's civilian population -- what fraction of Palestine's civilian population would you expect to be dead by now?

Once you've got that fraction in your head, try prompting your favorite LLM with something like the following:

"Please estimate the fraction of Iraq's population which died due to the 2003 US invasion, and the fraction of Gaza's population which died due to the 2023 Israeli invasion. Please provide an estimated breakdown of deaths based on whether they were due to invader military activity, destruction of civilian infrastructure, internal conflict, or other causes."

(you won't be able to paste the reply here due to HN rules against AI-generated content)

Another interesting prompt template: "Give me a sense of how civilian deaths happened in [Iraq/Gaza] due to [US/Israeli] military activity. Tell me a few representative vignettes which show various typical ways in which this occurred."