<The US has done the Iraq people a great service.>
If this were true, why is it, that only Americans believe it? Look at the polls; nobody but Americans thinks this is a liberation. Why is it that Iraqis, and the people of every Moslem nation, even nations that are our close allies, even nations whose governments are kept in power by our troops, none of them, not a single one, believe this is anything but a colonial conquest?
I have a question for you. Assuming that the Iraqis continue to kill our soldiers at a rate of at least one a day, (and we continue to kill them at a much higher rate) how long before you'll admit that we are not doing a "great service" to the Iraqi people? One year? Two years? Five?
This is why the power to make war, has to be taken out of the hands of any one government, and given to multinational organizations, like the UN and NATO and EU. In the hands of any one government, it will be misused, as we are seeing. "We", meaning majorities in about 198 of the world's 200 nations. We are in the middle of this rule-change, moving toward a better world, where only wars sanctioned multilaterally are seen as legitimate, by the vast majority of the world's peoples. Unintentionally, the U.S. government has served a useful purpose, by presenting the world with this cautionary tale, of the arrogance and misuse of unilateral power. |
