What if Saddam didn't invade Kuwait, would we be going to war today?
What if Saddam only used poisons against Iran because he was losing (even though the US was on his side and backing him with weaponry of all kinds) and would have lost that war if he didn't use them--is this parallel to what we did in Japan to end World War II?
What if his only WMD deed was to poison the Kurds? Has the US ever cared about the Kurds before? Did the US care about the Kurds after the Gulf War? Does Turkey care about the Kurds? Iran? I submit America only cares about the Kurds today because Saddam is today on the US bogeyman list. What Saddam did to the Kurds was a violation of human rights. But what Saudi Arabia and other Arab states have done to their people has also been violations of human rights. Israel, as well.
What's the point of the Bush strategy here? No find OBL, so go after the next easy target, it being Saddam? This, while conveniently ignoring North Korea? What about Indonesia? The Phillipines, Colombia, Venezuela, problems in Africa? Why not really get down and help solve the Israel-Palistinian conflict. I mean isn't there a lot more to be concerned about, instead of waging a two-bit war with Iraq--but one capable of causing, as the UN has estimated, 500,000 deaths?
Is we lose 3,000 so let's take out a million really the way to go here? Whatever happened to dialogue, diplomacy, perhaps even, radical though it be, some self-reflection as to who we are as a nation and what impact our policies have on other countries, less priviled than our own.
Damn it, we should all say, "I ain't gonna go to war no more!" Indeed, let's try a different way. Why make it easy for our enemies to recuit larger numbers who'll act against us? It's the bullet or a ballot or a sword or a pen. Why can't America ever elect a leader who might be willing to admit that some of our polices of prior years have been wrong, that maybe it's time to adopt some new ideas, a better way to solve problems of the world instead of relying on military might to cover up the mistakes of things we should have done but didn't do?
Oh, well, enough for now. Still too many questions and not any good answers. Why? Cause we're not set up to find any good answers. Perhaps we should simply evaluate that, eh? |
