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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: greenspirit who wrote (111114)8/12/2003 3:25:28 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You make my point for me when you say: <by invading Afghanistan and then Iraq we demonstrated that cowardly terrorists> Afghanistan was a training and breeding ground for terrorists. It was an entirely legitimate target. But by saying that Afghanistan was a legitimate target to stop terrorism, and then to go and lump Iraq in with Afghanistan shows your willingness to use terrorism as a pretext to do anything you want. Nobody opposed legitimate self-defensive action in Afghanistan -- but Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror and the opposition to unilateral US war under the Bush Doctrine was and is global and intense. The US has a right to self-defense. Invading Iraq was an act of aggression, not self-defense. Nobody defended Saddam as a human being or as a leader. Saddam is roundly condemned by the international community. But Iraq was a sovereign nation and in a world where the rule of law means something, you cannot just go around invading countries because you feel like it and because you have the guns to do it. By invading Iraq we lowered ourselves to the level of those who use violence simply because it suits us -- because we think we have something to be gained by our use of violence. Now we live in a world where the rule of law, weak as it was, is brushed aside when law is inconvenient -- a world where violence is our calling card. Our invasion of Iraq is the result of bad policy and it gives aid and comfort to terrorists who want badly to destroy our world and core values such as the rule of law -- our invasion of Iraq is a gift to bin Laden and a victory for terrorism -- a victory for those who seek to destroy us.
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