No, the inalienable rights point is not that Iraq has them, since obviously we claim the people are not at fault. In fact the claim is that we would be liberating them. Which is very noble and American-like, I agree. (If we set aside a little thing called national sovereignty.)
The point was that all people worldwide want wonderful things, such as those rights and other conveniences such as food and medical care, but that the US is not in a position by our Constitution or practicality to be the worldwide liberator in the fashion espoused by the wartime administration.
My own opinion is that American example and culture is more rapid and longer-lasting means than military attempts at liberation, all the more so considering the generations of seething blood feud that will remain against the US throughout the M.E. were we to increase the level of violence and contribution and arms to both sides as we are currently doing. Notwithstanding the Islamist practice of extreme militantly enforced ignorance and 5x per day brain-washing, the greater our moral authority, the more the culture of law seeps everywhere.
Bottom line - once we identify the bad guys behind 9/11 and terrorism in the US, we can afford to be in a mode of thorough world-supported programs of inspections and enforcement of WMD-prevention, and hold up to the world an unstoppable example of benevolent American action, undeniable even by mullahs in the caves of Yemen. The truth is an all-powerful thing.
Unfortunately, the administration cares little about truth, and even less about investigating who the bad guys are and getting them. The top leadership of Afghanistan had an air corridor to high-tail it to Pakistan, and we are failing to interrogate the Saudis, nor have the least amount of success in tracking the anthrax perps. That is all very questionable.
But, goes the admin line, forget all that, let's now go after Iraq, we need a shooting war. Sounds too much like politics and profit.
There's no serious attempt at solving the 9/11 problems and unanswered questions, it's just a business deal for the oil and political effect. |
