At a particular point in time, Abraham Lincoln was the most hated man in America. When he abolished Slavery the population hated him with such intensity that the white people refused to come out and meet him.
If in the future, Iraq becomes a prosperous democracy, the perspectives will change. Freedom comes often at the price of blood and nations should be willing to pay for it. WW2, Cold War, etc all came at the price of blood.
Partition of india came at a heavy price of blood. 150,000 people were killed in the partition riots. A
100,000 women were raped during the Partition riots. Millions were uprooted from their homes and forced to go to the other side of the border. It was the biggest displacement exercise in History.
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:58:48 -0500
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hear Neil Young, Help Stop the War
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hear Neil Young, Help Stop the War
Possibly, but I don't like playing arm chair politician. If I were in a
position to totally immerse myself in these issues and had some influence on polity decisions, I might form an opinion very different than one I might shoot from the hip from my current perspective. In general though, I favor humanitarian over military action as an instrument of foreign policy. And in terms of the oil problem, I recommend we stop quibbling over insignificant resources such as The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and spending hundreds of billions on wars to secure oil we may never lay hands on, and shift the whole paradigm to energy independence. If Bush had done that instead of pursuing this war, he might have been remembered as one of our greatest presidents, instead of our worst, as will probably be the case (see cover story in this month's Rolling Stone).
position to totally immerse myself in these issues and had some influence on polity decisions, I might form an opinion very different than one I might shoot from the hip from my current perspective. In general though, I favor humanitarian over military action as an instrument of foreign policy. And in terms of the oil problem, I recommend we stop quibbling over insignificant resources such as The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and spending hundreds of billions on wars to secure oil we may never lay hands on, and shift the whole paradigm to energy independence. If Bush had done that instead of pursuing this war, he might have been remembered as one of our greatest presidents, instead of our worst, as will probably be the case (see cover story in this month's Rolling Stone).
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