> > 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. > > Even if "walking away", as you dismissively phrase it, would improve > the situation?
I want us out of there as much as you do, but I believe passions are stirred and wills are steeled, way beyond the climate that produced the 9/11 attack. If we had 10 thousand enemies then, we have a million now. Sure, I'm making these numbers up, but the point is that we have a whole lot more enemies today then we did before. What I'm saying is that we need now to prove to the world (and ourselves!) that we aren't malevolent invaders/occupiers/conquerors, but that America really does stand for all the good things we ourselves want to believe is true. Excuse me for drifting here, but I think this needs to be said somewhere: I see our gov't - from the top down - as having been seized by arrogant, belligerent, greedy, selfish, authoritarian types, the likes of which I never thought could possibly happen here. One great example: I look around and I just don't see a system that honors justice for all, instead what I see are people who can afford lawyers getting away with whatever - while the rest get bagged, tagged and steamrolled. We have 2 million people in jail today, and probably 10 or 20 times that number on 'programs'. Is this what justice looks like? I'm talking about an attitude that doesn't match my belief system, that has affected our world in big and small ways, and I reject it. > We don't belong there. It's not our fight. All we do is > inflame things beyond their current status. There is no way for any > outsider, particularly the USA, to impose peace in the area through military > action. I agree! But, still, that house is burning now, and we've got to come up with a way to put it out in such a way that we don't wind up with a million people on a mission to hurt us. I know, the Vietnamese didn't come back at us, but this enemy is different in some significant ways. 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.
