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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chas. who wrote (11568)	1/19/2006 12:05:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 32591

Hawk a lot of what you say is true and a lot more is idealistic........ I readily admit that a lot of my perspective is "idealistic" and may never come to pass. But without a vision of what we wish to accomplish, it's pretty difficult to justify making the weighty decision to become involved in the first place. My view is that we shouldn't military interfere with soveriegn states UNLESS it's evident that NOT doing so is going to have a drastic impact upon us at some point in the future. Again, the well-worn analogy to pre-WWII Hitler is a prime example of how history could have been changed had the democracies of the world had the cajones to stand up to him. I really don't want to wait around to see what happens should Islamo-Fascist regimes manage to take over Iraq or any other oil rich Muslim country. We are just too vulnerable to terrorist attacks, and there's little we can do to alleviate the vulnerability without turning the US into "Fortress Amerika" and lock ourselves up within our borders. That's just not the values this country was founded upon. And in the process, we have to ask ourselves what global obligation America bears as the leader of the free world. Do we have an obligation to advance the inalienable human rights we take for granted here? Hawk