On The Good News Front In Iraq

 

1. ”Am I any better off NOW as compared to the start of this war?”

   The war wasn’t for your benefit.

   Posted by Vilmar       04/03/2005  at  01:08 PM  



2. OCM: June 6, 1944 - 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured ... and those are just American casualty figures. All in one day, my friend.

   Why did they die? Was it worth it? Did you benefit from that? Did their families benefit from their death? Are you better off now because of their sacrifice?

   War is always a difficult undertaking and lives are always lost. It is to be avoided at all costs and this country has made a habit of avoiding war unless provoked or threatened.

   Our reasons have not always been immediately justifiable but history has proven that even when America fucks up, we manage to accomplish some good out of it. Nothing about this war in Iraq is hearsay or circumstantial. It is clear-cut. Planting democracy in Iraq is a move to halt the spread of radical Islam.

   If it really is a useless gesture (and war) then why are insurgents from all over the Islamic world coming to Iraq to fight us? They know they are doomed if we succeed.

   This is a war to determine whether the 21st Century is dominated by terrorists masquerading as Islamic fundamentalists continue to kill innocent people or whether people are allowed to live free in democratic societies where the terrorists will be ostracized and lack support.

   Many times in history, wars could only be justified and the benefits realized many years afterward. This is such a case. You and I will not live long enough to see the tide of radical Islam turned back in full but this is a beginning.

   Peace will come to the Middle East when enough of the radical terrorists have been killed that the rest of the mangy specimens in that backward, tribalistic, feudal region realize the futility of their “jihad” and decide to build a mature civilization that can join the rest of the world in peace.

   

   Posted by The Skipper       04/03/2005  at  03:35 PM  



3. Well and cogently written, Allan.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       04/03/2005  at  03:47 PM  



4. OCM: war always accomplishes peace .. even if it is only a temporary respite before the next war. By the same token, peace always leads to war as soon as people forget how horrible the last war was.

   It has been sixty years since this planet saw a major war and people have forgotten the millions who died, the bloodshed, the horror and the utter futility of it all.

   Humanity does not love war or even want it. The problem is that humans have such awfully short memories. All it takes is one generation and mankind starts to think the last war wasn’t so bad after all and it may be time to have another party.

   War will not disappear from humanity until a conflict is waged that is so bloody awful that it is seared into the collective memory. Then again, some would say the trench warfare of WWI should have done that .. or the atomic destruction of Hiroshima.

   What will it take? Probably nothing less than Armageddon and the total destruction of 95% of the human race.

   Even then the remaining 5% will be throwing rocks at each other over who gets to camp by the last remaining water hole.

   Admit it. You know I’m telling the truth here.

   Posted by The Skipper       04/03/2005  at  05:40 PM  

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