> > The thing is that the invasion resulted in civil war, so we're now > > obliged to stop the fighting. > > That's a load of crap. We didn't cause the civil war; > the roots of that go back a long time. The other countries in the area saw the > fall of Saddam as an opportunity to advance their agendas, and that > is what is causing the civil war. Were we to get out, there simply > would be one less thing for them to fight about.
The room was full of gas and we lit the match. While we can blame the gas or the match, one thing we can't do is just walk away as if we had no part it in. The fact is that our hands are covered with blood now, and we have no choice but to make some big decisions. We can continue the go-for-broke gambit the neocons launched, or we can get them out of power and work with other countries to put together a firefighting force that has the strength and the capacity to put that fire out. We do have the means to make the fire bigger, but if we do that then we'll all get burned. The only rational course of action is to put it out. Among the major "un-accomplishments" of our information supply is to have convinced us that world support is unimportant; the UN is irrelevant; Muslim/Arabs are bad people, and because we have the biggest guns we can do whatever we please. Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. ---- One thing that's really at stake here is the spirit of America. In our lifetimes I believe we've seen this country fall, a step at a time, from a world class standard into something that I don't even recognize anymore. I look around and I can't even spit without hitting yet another authority bent on forcing me into it's mold. Is this what freedom and democracy are all about, or is it tyranny in another clever disguise? Bill > -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
