Re: Kasey Simpson's Post October 28
you say the left has lost its moral bearings. Yet you do not indicate your
knowledge of the crimes committed by the west against the rest of the world in
the years since WW2. Our affluence and freedom is dependent on the poverty and
enslavement of much of the rest of the world. No one denies the horrors of the
Iraqi regime. The issue is whether invasion, war, destruction and death is our
only option. If we could wait out the Soviet empire why can't e wait out Sadam
Hussein? Further - why are the hawks so sure that the world after an invasion
of Iraq will be safer than the world is now? There are reasonable arguments
that such an invasion will only worsen the present situation. There's nothing
knee-jerk about the decision to contain Iraq. I believe that those who accept
the naive notion that such an invasion will make us safer have lost their
moral bearings.
