It would have been worth the wait, imo, to get world approval- because we might never have needed it.
That may be true. I fear, also, that we may have created more jihadists. We'll see.
But this? --
. And you see them here- wanting to take out Saddam because he is "evil" (in our opinion).
I've been scratching my head over that "in our opinion," which appears to have been inserted to cast doubt over any certainty about the matter. (Not doubt over the actions taken against the evil at issue, but over the very question of whether it is, in reality, more than just an "opinion" of "our"[s] that Saddam's acts are evil.)
In just whose opinion is gouging out people's eyes and raping women in front of their husbands or beheading people or slicing out their tongues for criticism or dropping human beings into large versions of paper-shredders not evil?
My expectation is that you will point out evil acts done by others as though that were responsive to my question.
But since I already know plenty of others do evil, also, I'd appreciate knowing a different, and very simple thing: In whose opinion (you are reminding us) is Saddam's sadistic torture of human beings as described in the Hentoff piece and elsewhere not evil? |
