How many people here want a war?
Come on, raise your hands. Ok, you guys can leave the room, don't call us, we'll call you.
How many people here refuse to have a war at any cost?
Ok, you guys can leave too.
No really, if you want a war, your pretty much clinically insane. Flat out. I'd also would like to have pacifists be right for once...but pacificism as far as I think only invites someone else to make war on you. Why? Because humans are selfish beings; corrupted by power; the victims and victimizers. We are our own worst enemy.
Now, as I look at it...the Iraqi situation is intolerable. Sadam has several presidential palaces, weapons programs, and kills nuclear scientists if they won't build him bombs. The human cost to his country is whats intolerable about the whole situation. Oh and Iraq isn't the only place in the world where there is pain and suffering...that is everywhere and I wish everyone would try and make a concerted effort to fix that problem but I go back to one of my first points that humans are selfish beings.
Now back to the grand scheme of things. I consider Sadam to be a madman, the point has been made that he would be more likely to use WMD's if he's backed into a corner...but how long do you want to wait before you have to back him into the corner because you are left with no other choice. This is not a rational man by any stretch of the imagination...he has absolute power and control...and if he thinks turning part of the world into scorched earth would be a fun afternoon...then he'd do it. Anything to make those American pigs burn I guess.
The distinction I see between our side, and I mean the people of other nations, and Sadam's side is that we would prefer to live in a world without a madamn who would use weapons like those.
And you can say...well yes, Russia, America, and other nations have those weapons too. I bet not many American presidents have the conscience to press the button to essentially destroy the world...would any of you of the sane people that I weeded out at the beginning do it? Probably not...being the rational people you are and prefering to see the sun rise and set and the sky to be blue.
Sorry...turned into a bit of a crazymans ramble.
The point: No-one should want to go to war, but if you have to fight then there should be no second guesses. If I have to go to war, which I darn well do not, to defend lives of others in a relatively well meaning country that I live in...then I will do what has to be done.
It is the same tired rhetoric...but I think its said in the hopes that one day nobody would have to defend their country with their life.
I leave with a quote.
"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."
