The War in Iraq
Many of my readers have asked for views on the current situation in Iraq. To tell the truth, I have not been following the news much lately, perhaps out of a desire to avoid negative thoughts. The war is not going well. Terrorist attacks are continuing and the Iraqis have failed to create a government. It is now fashionable to be against the war. I am less for it than I have been, but I think it is important to maintain a constructive view: we should ask what we should do next, not what we should have done. The question of the beginning is something we should think about before we start our next war, not something that is important in deciding what we can do now.
If the anti-war movement is a humanitarian one, then it should concern itself with the war that threatens to kill the most people: the intensifying civil war among the Iraqis themselves. The way to stop this is surely to increase or, at minimum, maintain the amount of troops to provide security. Both sides need to give up ground. Those who were for the war in the first place need to bite their lips and look for assistance from other countries. We need to loosen the restrictions on reconstruction money, etc, so that more countries develop an interest in Iraq. Clearly, however, the left is going to have to give up more in this debate. Bush has created a perfect spear for the anti-war movement to skewer itself on: anti-war voters can demand that we bring the troops home, but this will indicate that they care more about American lives than Iraqis'.
Part of a committment to democracy is an acknowledgement that it will make errors. One error is that we went to war with Iraq on phony reasons and, more importantly, with an incompetent administration. This puts us in the situation we are in now: you may oppose the administration and the war, but if you believe that Iraqis are as valuable as Americans, then you must support the means of ending war.
If the anti-war movement is a humanitarian one, then it should concern itself with the war that threatens to kill the most people: the intensifying civil war among the Iraqis themselves. The way to stop this is surely to increase or, at minimum, maintain the amount of troops to provide security. Both sides need to give up ground. Those who were for the war in the first place need to bite their lips and look for assistance from other countries. We need to loosen the restrictions on reconstruction money, etc, so that more countries develop an interest in Iraq. Clearly, however, the left is going to have to give up more in this debate. Bush has created a perfect spear for the anti-war movement to skewer itself on: anti-war voters can demand that we bring the troops home, but this will indicate that they care more about American lives than Iraqis'.
Part of a committment to democracy is an acknowledgement that it will make errors. One error is that we went to war with Iraq on phony reasons and, more importantly, with an incompetent administration. This puts us in the situation we are in now: you may oppose the administration and the war, but if you believe that Iraqis are as valuable as Americans, then you must support the means of ending war.
posted by Austin 5-000 at 5:33 PM
2 Comments:
Do you believe that iraqis are as valuable as americans?
I have a few concerns about 5-000's latest post. First he says, “The war is not going well. Terrorist attacks are continuing and the Iraqis have failed to create a government.” This is not true. The media (Jews) only covers the negative aspects of the war because that’s what draws ratings. Did the Zionist-media mention the fact that 18 new schools were built last month. No? They only covered that 12 of them were blown up. How surprising!
5-000 also writes of “the intensifying civil war among the Iraqis themselves.” Yet if he ever listened to his/our/your/my President, George W. Bush, or the rest of the administration, he would realize that there is no civil war going on. It’s simply the natural disorder that arises with the construction of a democracy. Does the Boston Tea Party ring any bells?
What we should do now, as 5-000 so eloquently put it, is to “ask what we should do next, not what we should have done.” There’s only one thing you need to do: stop questioning the war! It’s damaging to the troops’ morale!
The only reason why 5-000 criticizes the war at all is because he has been brainwashed by MTV and The Daily Show. He points out that “it is now fashionable to be against the war,” but then admits that he is “less for it than [he] has been” in the past. 5-000, have fun smoking dope on the organic farm with Bono and Kerry while I actually do something constructive: write a letter to our Commander in Chief thanking him for fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.
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