Your argument of "more innocents will die if we are not involved" is rather weak. Again, Iraq has not been hostile in the past ten years and it is strange to assume that "we" now have to be involved.
> It will be impossible to slow down Islamist
> fundamentalism regardless of what we do.
Do you not see that the more countries the US invades, the more fanatical and more aggressive these people will get?
Some of us here are from countries with a long history with terrorism (unlike some others who discovered its existence about 13 months ago) and it is no secret to us that the way to fight terrorism is not to blanket-bomb a country or even a town but cut off public support for the terrorists through improving their standards of living and their reasons to violently oppose their perceived enemy.
When you invade a country, or bomb a whole town, you kill innocent people, thereby creating martyrs from the dead and wannabe martyrs from their parents, husbands, etc. Every such oppressive, unjust act strengthens support from the population for the terrorists. Over the weekend in IHT, I read an article about the US planning occupation of Iraq, where an American-led military government will rule.
U.S. planning occupation of Iraq
( iht.com )
Just think about it - whether or not you like your current president, how would you think about another country setting up a military occupation in your own country?
Frankly, I cannot think of a better way to incite more hatred towards America in the Middle East. It is not exactly rocket science to deduce from this that more terrorist attacks will follow, either... |
