It doesn't matter. We had the pointless debacle known as Viet Nam for 15 years, taking 58,000+ American lives and that woke nobody up. If that didn't wake people up, certainly Iraq won't either. People are conditioned to accept war as an inevitable part of life, even glorifying it, when it's not inevitable and there's nothing glorious about dying in a pointless war.
It's like the Communists during the Cold War weren't killing Americans, so we went to Viet Nam and ensured that they did. Same with Iraq, the Iraqis weren't killing us and only a small band of radical muslims were, now the Iraqis are and many more muslims are killing us. It's as if we just want to put ourselves in harms way. A young person is safer in his hometown than Iraq, and could do a lot more good for America staying home, but he/she is in Iraq risking life and limb.
As awful as 9/11/01 was, the fact is an American is very very unlikely to die from a rare terrorist incident. An American is far far more likely to die from: military service, preventable car accidents, badly filled perscriptions, random crime, etc. To save lives, our priorities are misplaced, that's what the statistics tell us. But saving lives really isn't the motivation of our government, profits and control of the masses are the real motivators, so we focus on War against a people who never attacked us. |
