Hawkmoon, if I see a child in front of a bus, and I know the child won't be able to run fast enough to avoid being hit, my understanding that something terrible is going to happen, does not make me WANT it to happen.
And where are you in all of this? Would you make any attempt to save her, or would you act like a journalist and merely document the event?
And since we're engaging in analogies.. How about this one?
"You see a child who's parents are being intimidated by a gang bent upon recruiting and indoctrinating the kid into a life of crime... Do you intervene to confront the gang leaders to try and prevent this? Do you pressure the local government and police, themselves under seige by these gangs, to implement social and economic change so that these parents have an alternative to this life of crime?"
Of do you merely stand by and tell yourself, "the situation is hopeless and it's not worth risking our lives over.. But I certainly hope that my worst fears don't come pass for that child"..
Do I WISH that such invasions resulted in super good things? You bet I do, especially when I consider, in every detail, the cost in human life, and in cold hard cash.
Does experience and history display that "good things" can happen to societies where the previous despotic regime is overthrown and the system restructured?
Absolutely!! Japan and Germany are prime examples of societies which many Western politicians believed were incorrigible and completely unworthy of being socially rehabilitated..
But we had the collective will to do that because we recognized the threat of NOT doing it..
But in this case, apparently observers, as well as those who claim to advocate such high-minded moral values, apparently don't believe the Arab world is worth the trouble.
You don't make things change by merely "hoping and wishing" for some kind of miracle to occur. Freedom is not free.. it has ALWAYS been paid for in blood and treasure.
And we're going to pay a severe price for that X for lacking that kind of will.. 9/11 was merely the opening act of a very long and violent drama beginning to unfold.
Hawk |
