Realistic views for unrealistic motives
The reality of war is, by nature, hellish. There is much
more to warring than the idea of "That man is bad, and he has
nothing more than bad intentions for people that do not ad hear
to his way." By meaning of "more to warring", I mean that there
are more implications than an unjust leader. I can clearly
think of a few reasons not to go to war: Iraq's sovereignty, the
US's place in the world and our duties, the cost of war in both
money and lives,
You have to first realize that as ugly as it may seem, Iraq
is a sovereign nation. As the leader of a sovereign nation
Saddam reserves the right to do what he wants when he wants so
long as it stays within the boarders of his country and that
alone is between Saddam and his people. It is flat out not our
war. We cannot simply take over this country on the basis that
it is an evil harboring nation and that it could, eventually do
harm to other ways of life. Even if it already has in the past,
who are we to predict the future and impose our way of life.
that act alone would consist of arrogance, imperialistic
thought, and a total lack of a global perspective. It is not
justified.
Given that Iraq has imposed and invaded in the
past, none of the actions taken have been directly aimed at the
United States. It is true that Saddam has threatened the US but
that is all and only after the fact that we became involved.
The wars that have already been fought only involved the
neighboring countries Iran and Kuwait. Even though the US
supports some of those neighboring countries, it is not our war.
In being a sovereign nation, we have to respect the countries
right to act as an independent sovereign nation. When we did
fight Saddam in dessert storm we were only there to protect
Kuwait (oil) and our goal w...