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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (221711)2/28/2007 7:37:27 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
You can bitch all you want to about the decision to invade Iraq, but that is today water under the bridge. Americans today want Iraqis to stop killing each other and live together normally, something most Iraqis also want. The enemies of that completely normal objective are Abdul, Salim, Ali and their sponsors.

I suppose that right after 9/11 the US could have said "That's water under the bridge."; the 19 hijackers are dead; we should move past that since most people want to live in peace. We could have. But the American people don't want to leave violence against them unanswered.

Afghanistan really didn't have anything to do with 9/11. They were just in our way to get to AQ.

"Justice" often has a revenge component to it. On a large scale the people who want peace just happen to be in the way. The guys with the big bucks use Daisy Cutters and cluster bombs to achieve "justice". The guys without the bucks use power drills and suicide belts to achieve "justice". How different is: "The friend of our enemy is our enemy." and "You're either with us or against us."?

There seems to be a consensus that there has to be reconciliation in Iraq to achieve a state of peace. Easy to say; hard to do. What are the odds that the residents of FADG will have a reconciliation?

Suppose a woman is a victim of rape and one day blows her attacker away with a shotgun blast to the back. Is the rape all water under the bridge to be forgotten?

jttmab
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