Originally posted by Zeronet
If everyone thought like you we'd all be dead, because the news for you is the world aint very nice. Anthrax, nerve gas, dirty nukes. And that happy man Saddamn Hussain is trying to get as much of those as possible, to blow us westerners into no, not the stone age, into oblivion. Military action is always needed when evil exists, we helped kick out the taliban and by doing that, you have Afgans freedom. Something im sure you value and something North Korea and Iraq dont have much of.
Right, so what you're saying is we should eradicate people unlike us before they do it to us first. There's a historical precedent for this - the desire of the American military following WW2. They had the Atom Bomb and the USSR did not - so they reasoned that before the USSR got one, they should destroy it. It's a pre-emptive strike...
By caving into the methods of toerrorists and dictators, we become little better ourselves. Just because Saddam wants to destroy the West doesn't mean we should destroy his nation. Besides, that works both ways: from Iraq they see America threatening to
destroy their nation and respond with a "let's destroy them first" mentality.
Further to that, I'm yet to see conclusive proof that this time, Saddam
actually has these weapons of mass destruction. Yes, denying inspectors access is suspicious, but I doubt very much that America will allow Russian inspectors in to check that the nuclear weapons they said they'd destroy the other day have been. Besides, deny to me that Bush has family scores to settle.
Finally on the Saddam point, we, the West, armed him in the first place so he could fight Iran, another nation that we didn't (and still don't, supposedly) like. So there. It's just our own hubris about controlling 'inferior' people and getting them to do our dirty work by proxy.
In Afghanistan we have replaced terror not so much with freedom as another dangerous power vacuum. The Afghans may be allowed to play music, but they still have no food, homes or jobs. Yay for freedom; God Bless America.
Incidentally, when the Taliban first swept to power in Kabul (taking it from the very warlords to whom we have just returned it) they were welcomed by the public because they promised a return to order from lawlessness. Oh, and the West armed the Mujhedin (sp) as well so they could fight the USSR.
As for North Korea, it's a Communist country, and thus I guess must be automatically evil. It's different.
It's part of Bush's ridiculous and ill-defined 'spindle of atrocities' or whatever the hell it's called this week - something which patently doesn't exist. Korea may oppose Western capitalism, but it had nothing to do with the Sept. 11th attacks. Nor did Iran - it condemned them. The only country to publicly celebrate them was Iraq - yet these three contries are bunched together.
Recently, Bush and co. have widened the definition of 'states supporting terror' to include Syria, Cuba and some other one. Clearly there are scores to settle in Cuba, and it's the only reason at all that it has made the list. These states are not those responsible for the WTC attacks; and they are now being used as a justification for making the world a safer place - for American Republican Capitalism. Hooray. These states may be able to understand why the attacks took place, but they universally condemned them and by no means sponsored terrorism in any way related to 9/11.
It alarms and appals me that Britain is being drawn into this increasingly barmy "war on weird stuff - oh, and Osama, too". I mean, it's bad for America as well, but at least Britain can disassociate itself from it.
