Sarah wrote: I'm in favour of the war (so long as there's an intention to fight it with minimal loss of life,
I've been just skimming a lot of digests after being away for a few days, but this caught my eye. I have to say that this shows a real lack of understanding of the horror and real destruction of war. "No tanks have ever rumbled through these streets." Aren't we (in the U.S.) lucky? You do admit to being something of an armchair soldier in a later post, Sarah. Being more than an arm's length away from the destruction and death makes it much easier to advocate war. It's remote. It's facelss. It's nameless. And that's what we see on tv, images of laser guided missiles finding targets on a screen, much like a video game. It's neat and clean and bloodless. War is about burnt flesh that smells somthing like bbq'd meat. It's about maimed children and orphans. It's about facing the terror of 9/11 every day. It's about destroying the infrastructure of a country. I believe unequivocally that this proposed war is absolutely, completely senseless. I stand by a previous statement. It's about the oil. Period. If we were so morally high and mighty, we'd be in many other countries in droves. I'll use my favorite example - Sudan. We don't give a rat's ass about the atrocities there because they don't have a single thing we want. I can't stand Saddam Hussein or what he does in Iraq. I want that to end. But war isn't the way to do it. It's like cutting off the hand of a theif. You wind up with someone who's pissed off and disabled. In this case we'd be cutting off the hand of Iraq, rendering it even more disgruntled and crippled. I believe the solution is education, education, education. And that takes time. I, for one, am willing to be persistent AND patient. lots of love Anne
