Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Is the War on "Terror" worth it?
We’ve been at war with Terrorism since 2001, and it has not defeated it, misplaced it or diminished it. If anything, we’ve given specific terrorists more incentives for recruitment and perhaps led a small number of countries to feel ever more intimidated by American Foreign Policy.
However, is this really a War on Terror? Perhaps, it’s the ever expanding War for “Democracy”.. remember we defended Kuwait (a monarchy) to help defend Saudi Arabia (another monarchy) from Saddam’s Iraq. Was this war worth the lives lost?
Remember, from 1991 to 2003 we continued to bomb and disallow volunteer groups to help those innocent Iraqi children, women and even men. Over 500,000 children were killed and when asked about it, our government says it was worth it.
When you have a government willing to say 500,000 dead people are “worth it”, I think you have lost your moral compass. We were not at war with Iraq, we were supposedly at “peace” with them from Desert Storm. I’ve never heard of a peace settlement where you get to drop bombs on the loser. I don’t even think Germany got that after the dismantling of stability after the Great War.
Even Clinton bombed Afghanistan, which was years before the attacks in New York. (Not only that but Ron Paul clearly estimates that it hurt our national security and it’s pretty hard to argue it didn’t.) So my question really is, in what world is the United States acting in favor of “Democracy”, the American people or in favor of a morally better world?
However, is this really a War on Terror? Perhaps, it’s the ever expanding War for “Democracy”.. remember we defended Kuwait (a monarchy) to help defend Saudi Arabia (another monarchy) from Saddam’s Iraq. Was this war worth the lives lost?
Remember, from 1991 to 2003 we continued to bomb and disallow volunteer groups to help those innocent Iraqi children, women and even men. Over 500,000 children were killed and when asked about it, our government says it was worth it.
When you have a government willing to say 500,000 dead people are “worth it”, I think you have lost your moral compass. We were not at war with Iraq, we were supposedly at “peace” with them from Desert Storm. I’ve never heard of a peace settlement where you get to drop bombs on the loser. I don’t even think Germany got that after the dismantling of stability after the Great War.
Even Clinton bombed Afghanistan, which was years before the attacks in New York. (Not only that but Ron Paul clearly estimates that it hurt our national security and it’s pretty hard to argue it didn’t.) So my question really is, in what world is the United States acting in favor of “Democracy”, the American people or in favor of a morally better world?
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